Ahead of Black Friday, Amazon is dropping prices on Fire tablets, offering discounts up to 50%. Shop the sale now.

Black Friday is still weeks away but early deals are rolling in. Kindle Book Deals are especially hot with e-books as low as $1.99.

The Apple Watch Series 10 is on sale for $50-off at this early Black Friday deal at Walmart.

Shop these early Best Buy Black Friday deals on Motorola razr and razr+ phones and take up to 50% off new smartphones.

As of Nov. 11, Chromebook deals are aplenty ahead of Black Friday 2024. Check out our top picks from Lenovo, Asus, Samsung, and others.

Starting at noon ET, Walmart+ members can score the Dyson V12 Detect Slim for just $399.99.

Amazon has a few good TV deals ahead of Black Friday

The best two headphones deals ahead of Black Friday are the Bose QuietComfort Ultra earbuds on sale for $229 and the Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones for $102.99 off.

Walmart's first Black Friday Deals event of 2024 began Monday, Nov. 11. The best deals from the sale include $50 off the new Apple Watch Series 10 and a sub-$150 55-inch Hisense 4K TV.

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As of Nov. 12, the RayNeo Air 2s AR glasses are $40 off at Amazon, now $399.99 as an early Black Friday deal.

As of Nov. 12, Apple’s 2024 MacBook Air with the new M3 chip is $200 off at Amazon, priced at $899.

As of Nov. 12, Apple’s latest Series 10 46mm smartwatch is now $50 off at Amazon, priced at $379.

Save 34% on an Apple AirTag at Walmart.

Save 10% on the the Microsoft Xbox Series X at Walmart.

Save 37% on a refurbished Dyson Airwrap at Walmart.

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Ahead of Black Friday, the Google Pixel 8 is $300 off at Amazon, down to $399 (was $699) as of Nov. 12.

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I've tested a ton of hybrid robot vacuums at home — here are the top 4 mopping robot vacs from iRobot, Roborock, and more to buy on sale on Black Friday.

Apple AirPods 3 normally retail for $169. As of Nov. 12, they're on sale for $94 at Walmart.

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LG's 55-inch B3 OLED TV normally retails for $1,199. As of Nov. 12, it's on sale for $798 as part of Walmart's early Black Friday sale.

Normally, a Target Circle 360 annual membership costs $99. As of Nov. 12, you can save 50% on it, dropping it to just $49 for your first year.

The Hisense 50" Class R6 Series 4K UHD Roku Smart TV is currently on sale for $138 at Walmart's early Black Friday sale — get it now and save 43% or $100-off.

Find early Black Friday deals on tablets from Apple, Amazon, Samsung, and more. Shop now for early savings of up to 50% off.

Mashable's shopping experts are tracking major retailers' 2024 Black Friday sales. Some of the best deals have already landed at Walmart, Best Buy, and Target.

The best Amazon deals on Nov. 12 include four Apple AirTags, Google Pixel 9, 40-inch Amazon Fire TV, and Google Pixel Watch 3.

Our top picks, at a glance: The Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 4 for $79.99 (save $20), the Sony XG300 for $199.99 (save $150), and the Anker Soundcore Motion 300 for $59.99 (save $20).

Get early Black Friday deals on headphones at Walmart. Score AirPods for under $100.

As of Nov. 12, a ton of great keayboard deals are live ahead of Black Friday 2024. Check out our top deal picks, from daily-use keyboards to gaming-style keyboards.

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The best Black Friday VPN deal is on Proton VPN. Save 70% on a two-year plan.

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The Yamal-Europe pipeline that usually delivers Russian gas to Western Europe was sending the fuel back to Poland for a ninth straight day yesterday, as per data from German network operator Gascade.

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PORT LOUIS — Mauritius incumbent prime minister Pravind Jugnauth said on Monday that his political alliance was headed for a huge defeat following Sunday's parliamentary election. "L'Alliance Lepep is heading towards a huge defeat. I have tried to do what I can for the country and the population. The population has decided to choose another team. I wish good luck to the country," Jugnauth told reporters. Voters went to the polls to elect lawmakers for the 62 seats in parliament for the next five years, from a list of 68 parties and five political alliances. Whichever party or coalition gets more than half the seats in parliament also wins the prime minister's post.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will visit Iran next Wednesday and start consultations with Iranian officials the following day, state media reported on Sunday. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Wednesday he might head to Iran in the coming days to discuss its disputed nuclear program and that he expected to work cooperatively with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Long-standing issues between Iran, the IAEA, and Western powers include Tehran barring uranium-enrichment experts from IAEA inspection teams in the country and its failure for years to explain uranium traces found at undeclared sites. Iran has also stepped up nuclear activity since 2019, after then-President Trump abandoned a 2015 deal Iran reached with world powers under which it curbed enrichment -- seen by the West as a disguised effort to develop nuclear weapons capability -- and restored tough U.S. sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Tehran is now enriching uranium to up to 60% fissile purity, close to the roughly 90% required for an atom bomb. It has enough higher-enriched uranium to produce about four nuclear bombs, if refined further, according to an IAEA yardstick. Iran has long denied any nuclear bomb ambitions, saying it is enriching uranium for civilian energy uses only. 

HONG KONG — Merchants and consumers alike found the Singles' Day shopping festival Monday less shiny than in years past as e-commerce firms look abroad for growth. The annual event named by the numeric form of its Nov. 11 date was started by e-commerce platform Alibaba, which offered attractive discounts to entice shoppers to spend big. The extravaganza has since expanded to other platforms like JD.com and Pinduoduo in China as well as abroad. While Singles’ Day was previously a one-day event, shopping platforms in China now kickstart the festival weeks ahead to drum up sales volume. The festival has also traditionally been regarded as a barometer of consumer sentiment. But amid China’s lagging domestic economy, dragged down by a real estate crisis and deflationary pressures, consumers no longer go all out on purchases during the shopping extravaganza. “I only spent a few hundred yuan on daily necessities,” said Wang Haihua, who owns a fitness center in Beijing. Wang said that the prices offered on e-commerce platforms during Singles’ Day are not necessarily cheaper than usual. “They’re all tricks and we’ve seen through it over the years,” she said. Zhang Jiewei, a 34-year-old who runs a barber shop in Xi’an city, echoed Wang’s sentiments, saying that he no longer trust Singles’ Day promotions as some merchants tend to raise the usual price of a product before offering a discount, giving consumers the illusion they are getting a deal. “I used to buy a lot two or three years ago and I even purchased a mobile phone (during Singles’ Day),” he said. “I stopped doing that following the pandemic because of less income. I am not going to buy anything this year,” Zhang added. Some experts say that Beijing’s recent stimulus measures have had little impact to boost consumer confidence. “People are not interested in spending and are cutting back on big-ticket items,” said Shaun Rein, founder and managing director of China Market Research Group in Shanghai. “Since October 2022, the weak economy means that everything has been on discount year-round, 11.11 is not going to bring in more discounts that the month before.” Rein said he expects low growth for the Singles’ Day shopping festival as consumers tighten their spending in anticipation of difficult economic times ahead. Categories such as sportswear and fitness, however, have been doing well as customers “trade down a Gucci bag for Lululemon sportswear,” he said. Platforms like JD.com and Alibaba, which operates e-commerce platforms Taobao and Tmall, previously used to publish the value of transactions made during the festival, but have since stopped revealing the total figure. While yearly growth used to be in the double digits, estimates of recent figures have dwindled to low single-digit growth. Syntun, a data provider, estimated that last year’s gross merchandising volume sales across major e-commerce platforms grew just 2% to $156.40 billion, a far cry from double-digit growth before COVID-19. Merchants who typically take part in the Singles’ Day shopping festivals say the costs of participation no longer pay off, amid high advertising fees and unsatisfactory sales. Zhao Gao, who owns a garment factory in eastern Zhejiang province, said that after paying advertising costs to e-commerce platforms he would only break even after sales. “The platforms have so many rules for promotions and customers have become more skeptical,” he said. “As a merchant, I no longer participate in the Singles’ Day promotions.” Another merchant, Du Baonian who runs a food company processing mutton in Inner Mongolia, said that overall sales in the past year have fallen 15% as consumers downgraded and reduced consumption. Du said that while he still takes part in the Singles’ Day promotions, the higher expenses do not typically generate returns because of sluggish sales. “We are seeing shrinking revenue, but advertisement on the platform can help us to maintain our leading sales position,” he said, adding that he was considering advertising on more e-commerce platforms to target more consumers. Meanwhile, e-commerce platforms grappling with a slowing domestic market have also turned to overseas markets to seek new growth, offering promotions like global free shipping and allowing merchants to sell globally with ease. Alibaba, for example, said in a blog post on its Alizila site that some 70,000 merchants saw sales double with global free shipping. In markets like Singapore and Hong Kong, new customers also doubled, Alibaba said.

Former US president Donald Trump's cryptocurrency platform had a faltering sales launch Tuesday, with only a fraction of its digital tokens that went on the market finding a buyer.