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Microsoft extends $99 Xbox Kinect deal to Best Buy, GameStop
Microsoft is extending its $99 Xbox and Kinect bundle to Best Buy and GameStop stores. The deal first rolled out in early May exclusively on Microsoft’s online store, allowing customers to get the...
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Best Buy founder and major shareholder Richard Schulze resigns
Best Buy has been facing some serious problems over the last year. It lost CEO Brian Dunn this year and it has been closing stores in an effort to shore up operations and return the profits it once...
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Best Buy considers in-store competitor price streaming
If you hear an analyst talk about the state of Best Buy these days, you’ll no doubt hear stories about how consumers now walk into the store with the sole purpose of scanning items with their phone to...
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Best Buy Galaxy S III leak results in lawsuit
So we all know the typical life of the rumor mill that surrounds a new electronic device, right? Before the product is announced, tips and leaks come from overseas manufacturing plants, but once the...
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Best Buy borrows Apple Store strategy for retail relaunch
Best Buy is borrowing some Apple-style retail polish for its “Best Buy 2.0″ in-store experience, the company has confirmed, trialling a new approach to brick & mortar selling that it hopes will...
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Brick-And-Mortars Are In Trouble, But They Can’t (And Won’t) Die
For years now, the technology world has been sounding the death knell for brick-and-mortar stores. Consumers and even online retailers reason that technology customers are too knowledgeable of the...
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Best Buy lowers iPhone 4 price to $50 on contract
If you’ve been eying the iPhone 4 for that low price point of $99 lately for the 8GB model, we have some great news. In what we are hearing is a new, permanent price drop, Best Buy is now selling...
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Best Buy founder moves ahead with $11 billion buyout plan
Electronics retailer Best Buy has been having a difficult time recently with sagging profits and other challenges. Best Buy founder Richard Schulze has been working with at least four different private...
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Acer Aspire M5 Series Ultrabooks detailed with touch for Windows 8
Today is a hot day for your Acer Windows 8-bound notebook family with not just the V5 series popping up for touchscreen laptop justice, but with the Aspire M5 Series Ultrabook as well. What we’ve got...
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Best Buy battles “showrooming” with internet price-matching
Best Buy will match online pricing during the holiday season, so as to reduce the impact of “showrooming” where would-be buyers play with products in-store but then order them from cheaper internet...
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Windows 8 HP PCs pop up at Best Buy stores
We’ve heard a lot about Windows 8 today – Netflix pushed a Windows 8 update earlier today, we learned a little more about the Windows 8 marketing campaign, and – most importantly – the new OS...
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: October 12, 2012
Welcome to Friday, folks. The weekend is here once again, and what better way to kick off the festivities than with a Windows 8 purchase? The new OS went up for pre-order today, while a number of other...
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Best Buy announces the 9.7-inch Insignia Flex Android tablet
Best Buy announced, via its Insignia Facebook page, the new Insignia Flex Android tablet. Although the specs are modest, the design is something that catches the eye, giving it a unique look in a...
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Best Buy’s Insignia Flex to be $239 to $259, source claims
On Friday, Best Buy revealed the mystery product it had been releasing teases about as the Insignia Flex, a 9.7 inch tablet running Android Ice Cream Sandwich. A price wasn’t provided in the...
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$150 AT&T Nokia Lumia 920 priced to undercut rivals (but not HTC)
Nokia’s Lumia 920 has been prematurely priced up for its US-exclusive launch on AT&T, with Best Buy spilling the competitive costs for the Windows Phone 8 handset. The 32GB 4G smartphone will be...
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Time Warner Cable offers free Xbox to subscribers in attempt to lure new victims
I think it’s clear that cable companies and satellite providers fear streaming content providers such as Netflix and Amazon Prime. It’s also easy to see that television networks aren’t exactly keen on...
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Best Buy owes TechForward $27 million in damages over stolen trade secrets
Best Buy is in a little pickle at the moment. Aside from struggling with their own problems as an electronics retail chain, the company now owes start-up firm TechForward $27 million for stealing trade...
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: December 7, 2012
Welcome to Friday evening everyone – the weekend is beginning for most of us, but before we dive in, let’s recap the news from the day. Late this afternoon, we found out that Gameloft’s full line up of...
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iPhone 5 drops to $150 in Best Buy promo
Apple’s iPhone 5 has seen a $50 discount, with retailer Best Buy offering the latest-gen smartphone from $149.99 for those signing up to a new, two-year agreement. Both the AT&T and Verizon...
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Best Buy launches CinemaNow beta, rips DVDs to the cloud
For most users, ripping DVDs is a simple, straightforward, and easy to accomplish task. For those unwilling to rip their own DVDs, whether due to legal concerns or a simple inability to, Best Buy has...
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