When is October Prime Day 2025? Amazon’s October Prime Day is being held on Oct. 7 and 8, 2025. You can find steep markdowns on big brands like Sony and Samsung as well as Hisense, TCL, and more. Are TVs really cheaper on Prime Day? They can be! Amazon often features discounts on a variety of TVs throughout the year, but especially during the Prime Day sale events. While each discount varies by brand and model, it’s possible to save 30, 40, or even 50 percent on a high-end TV for upgrading your home theater.Amazon Prime Day vs. Black Friday: Which has better deals? While Amazon Prime Day has deals exclusive to Prime members, Black Friday deals are available across all retailers and are available to anyone. Some of the lowest prices we’ve ever seen products discounted at have been during Black Friday sales events. However, we consistently notice that Amazon products are priced lower during Prime Day events, so now is a better time to buy Kindles, Fire TVs, Echo devices, etc. How can you fact-check Prime Day deals?To find out if a deal is actually legit or worth your money, you can use deal trackers like Keepa and Camel Camel Camel that are easy to use and download. At ZDNET, we use Camel Camel Camel to track a product’s price differences over time and compare the lowest price to the highest price. Also: We’re tracking the prices of our top 20 products this Prime Day – here’s what deals are legitHow did we choose these October Prime Day deals?There are still a few weeks until the October Prime Day sale officially kicks off, but I was able to find a handful of great discounts on trusted brands like TCL, LG, and Sony. I made sure to only choose the best discounts on the best models from each brand to help you narrow down your choices for your next home theater upgrade. I also included a few soundbar and projector options for customers looking to make several home theater upgrades at once.What are the best Prime Day deals?ZDNET’s experts have been searching through Prime Day and other sales to find the best discounts by category. These are the best deals live now: And the best deals from other retailers:More questions? Read our Prime Day guide to discover everything you need to know about Amazon’s October sale event.  More

Doorbell cameras have become both popular and notorious; the idea that you could see who was at your door from upstairs, or even when you’re on holiday, also exposed questions about neighbourhood surveillance (and some issues with app security). And if you already have a security camera that covers the front door, you don’t need […] More

Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn and Indian conglomerate Vedanta have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a joint venture that will manufacture semiconductors in India.Under the MoU, Vedanta will hold the majority in the JV, while Foxconn will be a minority shareholder. Vendanta chairman Anil Agarwal will also be the chairman of the new joint venture, the companies said. “This first-of-its-kind joint venture between the two companies will support Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision to create an ecosystem for semiconductor manufacturing in India,” the companies added.The location for the new chip plant is still being finalised with a number of state governments in India, according to the companies.At the end of last year, the Indian government announced a plan that will see the nation put ₹2,30,000 crore, around $30 billion, behind a plan to turn India into a semiconductor manufacturing powerhouse. The government added it would be putting ₹55,392 crore, around $7.5 billion, behind its electronics manufacturing schemes, which include large scale electronics manufacturing, IT hardware, promotion activities, and electronics manufacturing clusters.  Establishing a semiconductor facility comes during a time when electronic makers continue to struggle with the global chip shortage, which has been predicted to last up until early 2023.

Also in India, the union government has issued a ban on an additional 54 Chinese apps, including those owned by Tencent and Alibaba. The enforcement was issued by the Ministry of Electronics and IT under section 69a of the Information Technology Act, as reported by Economic Times.”The 54 apps have already been blocked from being accessed in India through the [Google] Play Store,” an official told ET.”Many of the apps from the stable of Tencent and Alibaba, have changed hands to hide ownership. They are also being hosted out of countries like Hong Kong or Singapore, but the data was ultimately going to servers in Chinese destinations.” This latest ban by the Indian government is in addition to the 59 Chinese apps that have been barred from the subcontinent since June 2020. Those affected apps included TikTok, Weibo, and WeChat.MORE FROM INDIA More

Image: Mozilla Browser maker Mozilla is working on a new service called Private Relay that generates unique aliases to hide a user’s email address from advertisers and spam operators when filling in online forms. The service entered testing last month and is currently in a closed beta, with a public beta currently scheduled for later […] More

More than 1,700 product listings have been removed over the last three months from e-commerce sites and retail shops in Singapore for making fraudulent COVID-19 claims. These include test kits, herbs, traditional medicines, health supplements, and hand sanitisers.  The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) said it had intensified its monitoring of local e-commerce platforms and retail […] More