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How To Prepare for WSOP 2019

In past years, I’ve always reported about the WSOP after the fact. This year, I’ve decided to write about the preparation and anticipation of going to the WSOP instead. Make Hotel and Flight Reservations Early There is no reason to ...

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Amazon Restaurants Competes With Postmates

As if Amazon wasn’t already trying to take over the world, now it’s going after the food delivery market that Postmates, Doordash and Grubhub are all competing for. Frankly, I didn’t even know about this Amazon service until they sent ...

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Why DirecTV Now Lost 20% of Their Subscribers

Since the 4th quarter of 2018, AT&T has lost 350,000 subscribers from their DirecTV Now streaming service. Analysts have blamed it on everything from price hikes and AT&T blames it on the end of their promotional pricing. The real answer ...

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Ring Intros Door View Cam

Ring is best known for their doorbell camera, promoted on “Shark Tank,” and now owned by Amazon. Now they are ready to introduce a door camera that replaces your door peephole. Ring is not the first one to think this ...

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Add Fun Skills to Your Amazon Alexa

Now that you’ve bought one of Amazon’s Alexa enabled devices, what else can you do with it? How about training it what to say when you ask it a specific question? If that sounds like your kind of fun, keep ...

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Spin Scooter For Free

If it wasn’t already an incredibly crowded market for e-scooters, one more has decided to enter the Los Angeles market from San Francisco. The only small difference is, this one was bought by Ford Motor Company. As far as I ...

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Lyft Joins E-Scooter War

Of course, with Uber buying Jump, it was only a matter of time before Lyft joined the e-scooter war, along with everybody else and their brothers. Unlike Bird and Lime, Jump and Lyft combine their e-scooter/e-bike apps with their ride ...

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Uber Jump E-Bike Review

The proliferation of E-scooters has been astonishing in Los Angeles. Now, that those are getting to be old news, it seems E-Bikes are the new hot spot. Of course, Uber is in this market with their Uber Jump E-Bikes. Just ...

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Wemo WiFi Smart Plug Quick Review

During the holidays, Amazon had a sale on Wemo Smart Plugs for $19.99 so I decided to buy a few of them. They are still on sale for $23 on Amazon but the price seems to fluctuate frequently like the ...

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Wheels E-Bike Rolls Out In LA

E-Scooter companies seem to be exploding with the likes of Uber Jump, Lyft, Lime and Bird all trying to get your last mile rides. Now comes something slightly different from a company in West Hollywood started by the people from ...

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