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Digital Trends / Andy Zahn If you’re looking for smartphone deals, trading in your current device is a great way to save on a new flagship device. One of the best trade-in programs around is from Samsung. They offer some of the biggest trade-in credits on all brands and accept a wide range of devices, including phones, tablets, and smartwatches. Right now, there are a few ongoing Samsung Galaxy deals for trade-in purchases. You can get up to $1,000 of credit when you buy a Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra and up to $700 of…

Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou flew home to China on Friday after reaching an agreement with US prosecutors to end the bank fraud case against her, relieving a point of tension between China and the United States.Within hours of the news of the deal, two Canadians who were arrested shortly after Meng was taken into custody in December 2018 were released from Chinese jails and were on their way back to Canada. Beijing had denied that their arrests were linked.The years-long extradition drama has been a central…

Boeing’s CEO, Dave Calhoun, says that the company’s deal with Trump to build Air Force One was a risk the company “probably shouldn’t have taken.” The comment was made on Wednesday during a conference call to discuss the company’s Q1 results for 2022, which show that the Air Force One program went $660 million over its expected budget in the past few months. In a financial filing (PDF), Boeing reports that it’s now lost $1.1 billion on the contract. “Air Force One I’m just gonna call a very unique moment, a very unique…

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Matthew Smith / Digital Trends While Apple’s lineup of phones is impressive, they also tend to be expensive, and even their newest iPhone SE 2022, a model ostensibly marketed as affordable, can still be pretty expensive given that it starts at $430. Thankfully, older models of iPhones are still going around, including this refurbished iPhone SE 2 from Gamestop that even gives you a discount down to $284 from $400. That’s a pretty substantial discount and one of the better iPhone deals we’ve seen lately. Right off…

Roku has signed a multiyear deal with Lionsgate to exclusively offer the studio’s theatrical releases for free on its ad-supported Roku Channel immediately after their showing on Starz, starting with its 2022 release slate. It includes films like John Wick: Chapter 4, The Expendables 4, Borderlands, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, and more, which will be available on the channel in two separate windows. The second window will be nonexclusive, however, so the Roku Channel will be the first place viewers can see…

If you’ve been checking out the Microsoft Surface Pro deals going on at the moment, we’ve just spotted a great offer on the Microsoft Pro 8 to tempt you with. Right now, at Best Buy, you can buy a Microsoft Surface Pro 8 for just $936, saving you $164 off the usual price. Hitting the sweet spot by being under $1,000, it’s easily one of the most attractive laptop deals out there right now. If you’re looking to save big while getting great quality, this is the Surface Pro deal for you. Buy it now while stocks last.…

Semiconductor designer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) said on Monday it has finalised the purchase of Xilinx in a record chip industry deal valued at about $50 billion (roughly Rs. 3,78,145 crore), giving it an extra edge in the key data center market.The closing of the deal comes on the heels of Nvidia's decision to abandon its plans to buy SoftBank-owned Arm, citing regulatory hurdles.AMD's transaction moved ahead with all necessary approvals for the acquisition, it said.AMD Chief Executive Officer Lisa Su told Reuters…

The US antitrust review of Microsoft's $68.7 billion (roughly Rs. 5,10,990 crore) proposed acquisition of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard Inc will be handled by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Bloomberg News reported late on Monday, citing a person familiar with the matter.The FTC, instead of the Justice Department, will investigate whether the takeover will harm competition, the report said.In a bid to toughen merger guidelines, the FTC and the Justice Department had last month jointly said that industries had…

Intel is close to buying Israeli firm Tower Semiconductor for about $6 billion (roughly Rs. 45,275 crore), a source familiar with the matter said, as the US company looks to advance its strategy of contract manufacturing chips for other businesses.A deal could be unveiled as soon as this week, the person said on Monday, declining to be named as the matter was private.The potential purchase would deepen Intel's presence in a space dominated by Taiwan-based TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker. It also comes at time…