Exclusive: Amazon quietly hiked prices on Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, and eero overnight to offset ‘significant increases’ in memory costs

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The e-commerce company's hardware price hikes follow similar moves by Apple, Dell, and Microsoft Xbox.

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