The date was July 12th, 1998. A young Sammy Sosa was nipping at the heels of one Mark McGwire in the most talked about race in all of professional sports: which major league slugger could collect the most free AOL dialup hours. This week: Prime Day, single payer shipping, Nice! store brands, and continued debate over the looming iPhone Pro pricing mistake. 💰 .

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• Boxing Day - Wikipedia — Canada
• Amazon's Prime Day Generates Estimated $1 Billion in Sales - Bloomberg
• Clueless Gamer: "ARMS" With Will Arnett - CONAN on TBS - YouTube
• Amazon Prime is on pace to become more popular than cable TV - Recode
• Best Buy lost $1 billion in value on the news of Amazon’s Geek Squad competitor - Recode
• QVC, Home Shopping Network merge in $2.6 billion deal - CBS News
• Donald Trump Jr.’s full emails about meeting a ‘Russian government attorney,’ annotated - The Washington Post
• Nike Thought It Didn’t Need Amazon—Then the Ground Shifted - WSJ
• Amazon.com: Apple AirPort Express Base Station (MC414LL/A)
• With $50 million in funding, Brandless sells everyday essentials for $3 each | TechCrunch
• Upgrade #149: The Taste of Danger - Relay FM
• Samsung earnings guidance: revenue, profit likely beat expectations
• Why Security Experts Are Pissed That ‘1Password’ Is Pushing Users to the Cloud - Motherboard
• iStockNow Free Stock Tracking and Notifications
• Fileloupe for Mac - Media Browser
• Control Z by ABC News and Current Affairs on Apple Podcasts