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CNET Update - Get ready for Green Monday. It's Black Friday Part 2

2015-12-10
get ready for Black Friday part 2 the sales strike back I am Bridget Carey this is your scene that update you survived Black Friday and Cyber Monday now get ready for Green Monday that's right there's another day of online sales and it usually falls on the second Monday of December at least 10 days before Christmas eBay coined the phrase several years ago to mark that this was the busiest online sales day in December so yes Green is not an environmental thing it's for the color of all that money just rolling in now since it's such a hot day for online orders you're gonna find stores advertising deals to lure you in Amazon Best Buy and Walmart have begun teasing that they're gonna have green monday deals the discounts may not be as dramatic as Black Friday but it's still a good time to nab a few gifts and not have to pay full price the next big day to look out for is free shipping Day on Friday December 18th that's six days before Christmas Eve but if you're doing shopping in-person at Walmart stores the retailer is offering a new way to pay Walmart is jumping into mobile payments with Walmart pay it's a feature you'll find in the Maine Walmart app you don't need a special NFC chip in your phone like with iPhones and androids when you're in line at the register you're gonna scan a QR code at the register and that's it the charges are processed to your card on file and the receipt is in the app it's a gradual rollout only some stores are going to have the feature now but it should work at every Walmart by Midway next year future holiday shopping may be less stressful for another reason self-driving cars can do all the zipping around town for us and aside from Google and Apple there's a new tech giant tinkering in the space Samsung Electronics says that it's creating a team to develop parts for self-driving cars but the South Korean company didn't go into much detail also the Chinese tech giant Baidu has announced it's successfully tested a driverless car on roads in Beijing by do is like China's Google and the company used a modified BMW 3 Series for its self-driving test and it was able to navigate a variety of complex road conditions that's it for this tecnique update and there's more at cnn.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey
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