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Walmart wants to ruin Amazon's birthday party I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update the battle between walmart and amazon is heating up walmart is fighting back against amazon's prime day it's a sales holiday it made up for wednesday to celebrate its 20th birthday amazon's advertising July fifteenth as a day with more sales than Black Friday but only prime membership subscribers can score the deals to counter this Christmas in July Walmart is also making Wednesday a big online sales day marking down prices for more than 2,000 items but for Walmart it's not just one day the sales online will last 90 days and this week Walmart also just lowered the minimum you have to spend for free shipping now it's $35 instead of fifty dollars amazon wants to keep you hooked on that computer all day long because it'll throw out new deals every 10 minutes now if you want to take advantage of all these online deals at Walmart and Amazon be smart don't shop on your main work computer use a side tablet or your phone so your boss doesn't have evidence that you've been wasting your day away looking at discount TVs and speaking of televisions this one isn't exactly what you may call a doorbuster deal but the oled power LG EG 9600 series has the best picture quality of any TV we've tested and it just dropped in price the 65 inch screen model went from 9 grand to now 7 grand in the US you can check out the full review on cnet but if you don't have an ultra cool TV like that no worries the cable giant comcast just came out with a new way to watch TV without needing a TV and for fifteen dollars a month comcast is offering HBO with a handful of basic broadcast channels to watch live over the Internet but the catch is that you also have to pay for an internet service from comcast some sad news the video game world is mourning the loss of nintendo president satoru iwata he died at age 55 after battling cancer for more than a year owatta was a unique leader for nintendo because his background was in programming some of the very games that shape the company during the 80s and 90s he worked at a nintendo affiliate making games like kirby's dream land for the Game Boy and super smash brothers for Nintendo 64 he also worked on several Pokemon titles he was named president of Nintendo in 2002 and during his leadership he launched nintendo DS the successor to the Gameboy along with the massively successful we'd game system he often made video news announcements on a series called Nintendo Direct which he hosted and often had some fun with presenting the news most recently he announced Nintendo would begin making games for smartphones and tablets taking over leadership in the meantime our Senior Managing Directors genio Takata and Shigeru Miyamoto the creator of Mario and other iconic games that's it for this tech news update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey