eBay Canada launches Best Price Guarantee for shoppers

eBay Canada launched a Best Price Guarantee program, offering Canadian eBay shoppers 110% of the price difference on items found for less on an approved competitor's website. Best Price Guarantee improves on eBay's current price match offering, and runs site-wide through the month of July on Canadian items, making sure shoppers receive the lowest price online.

"Our Canadian eBay sellers have always offered great prices, but with this new program, we guarantee that they are the best or we'll pay the difference plus 10%," said Andrea Stairs, General Manager, eBay Canada & Latin America. "Just before the summer heats up with deal-driven events, we are introducing Best Price Guarantee to give Canadians on eBay.ca the confidence to know they are getting the best possible price every single day, with no membership fees required."

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Spot all things Canadian on Netflix

Lost in Space

As we head into the Canada Day long weekend, Netflix Canada unveiled a fun list of content and behind-the-scenes that's home grown. In case it's too hot and humid outdoors, grab your tub of ice cream and celebrate our Canadian talent on screen, behind the screen as well as the storytellers. Put these on your Canadiana bucket list, eh? 

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Triple Beam: The Sonos Beam review

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

We live in a time where smart speakers are as common as TVs and smartphones. Powering these smart speakers are intelligent assistants which can respond to queries, set timers, run searches and play back an incredible range of streaming music, news and online content.

Behind each intelligent assistant is a tech company and its ecosystem of products. Amazon has millions of items for sale, Google has a massive advertising model, and Apple wants to shoehorn users into its Neverland of apps, services and devices.

Many of the existing $500 smart speaker releases of late seem to be solutions in search of problems. Apple’s HomePod is a circular single speaker that claims to be able to generate stereo sound. The Google Home Max is a heavy and oversized boombox for the streaming age. Both are expensive and serve one purpose, to play back streaming music and serve as the link for expanded smart home functionality.

The Sonos Beam, now that’s a different story. The second smart speaker from Sonos is also their third soundbar product and it is the hat trick of smart speakers capable of solving many problems at once.

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Google Maps redesign has begun to roll out

The Material Design makeover for Google Maps isn’t just coming to a few Android users. Google has finally begun rolling out the new look to all Android devices. The tech company first introduced this redesign at Google I/O 2018 back in May. You’ll see a new user interface with new fonts, buttons, and colorful icons in contrast with the mostly white background. The biggest new thing though is the new Explore section which shows you information on what’s available near you. And this shows everything from food, services, shopping, and other areas of interest in your area like gyms, parks, nightlife, etc.

If the update hasn’t made its way to you yet, just be a bit patient. Google usually rolls out updates in stages. Also it’s coming to Android users first and we can’t say yet when iOS Google Maps users will be getting the update but the company does usually port the features it has on Android to iOS so don’t be surprised if the iOS version of Google Maps gets the update, too.

Source: BGR