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Best Buy Co. wants to get your pulse racing over more than the hottest new laptops and TVs. Starting Wednesday the electronics chain will sell health and fitness equipment in 40 stores across the U.S.
Best Buy Co. is trying to nudge consumers away from its stores' DVD aisles by making it easier for them to rent and buy movies over high-speed Internet connections.
Taking a cue from house-call services like Best Buy's Geek Squad, electric carmaker Tesla Motors is launching a maintenance plan where mechanics travel to owners' homes or offices to perform repairs and tuneups.
Best Buy Co., the largest U.S. electronics retailer, said Tuesday second-quarter earnings fell below expectations, but the company gained market share and said it sees signs customer traffic is stabilizing.
Sony Corp. and Best Buy Co. say they are going to sell a multi-room audio system that they developed together, and the electronics chain will promote it with demonstration displays in most of its stores.
Few if any of the deals retailers have offered online during the recession have been as good as Best Buy Inc.'s sale price of $9.99 on a 52-inch TV Wednesday. But it quickly turned out the offer was too good to be true.
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After buzz built online about a new marketing job, Best Buy Co. Inc. is reworking the help-wanted listing that sought Twitter experience and put a number on it — 250 followers.
Almost 25 years after he was hired as a sales clerk in a small regional electronics store, Brian Dunn is set to become the next CEO of Best Buy Co. Wednesday.
Best Buy Co. Inc. is winning over customers left stranded when Circuit City closed, but it is still struggling with sluggish sales as shoppers continue to limit big purchases and Wal-Mart steps up competition.
Best Buy Co. and RadioShack Corp. say they will carry Palm Inc.'s new Pre smart phone, offering customers instant rebates.
Napster.com on Monday cut the price of its online music streaming service to $5 a month from $12.95, and threw in five song downloads for customers in a move to better compete with rival iTunes.
Thousands of Best Buy store employees will see pay cuts and others will lose their jobs as the consumer electronics chain reorganizes.
Consumers snapped up surprising numbers of flat-screen televisions, laptops, digital cameras and cell phones during the fourth quarter, helping Best Buy Co. Inc. boost sales by 10 percent, the company reported Thursday.
Best Buy Co. Inc. laid out a succession plan Wednesday, saying Brian J. Dunn, its president and chief operating officer, will take over this summer as chief executive of the nation's largest consumer electronics chain.
Best Buy Co. Inc., the nation's largest consumer electronics chain, said Wednesday that it has named President and Chief Operating Officer Brian J. Dunn as its new chief executive effective June 24.
Best Buy Co., nation's largest consumer electronics chain, narrowed its fiscal 2009 adjusted earnings forecast Friday and said it will take an approximately $60 million fourth-quarter charge related to some employee buyouts.
Best Buy Co. Inc. offered voluntary severance packages to virtually all its 4,000 corporate employees Tuesday as the nation's largest consumer electronics chain announced its third-quarter profit skidded 77 percent.
Maybe you won’t be splurging on a new computer or TV this holiday season because of the economy, instead trying to keep your existing tech gear running as smoothly as possible. Buying tech service as a gift itself can be a good idea.
Best Buy Co. arrived in Mexico on Friday with the opening of its second-largest store worldwide.
Best Buy Co. Inc. rattled investors Wednesday, warning that an already grim holiday shopping season that's expected to be the worst in decades might be getting worse.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling nearly 49,000 Chinese-made TV stands sold at Best Buy stores and other locations around the country.
WHAT'S DOWN: Best Buy Co. says its second-quarter profit slid 19 percent, falling to $202 million, or 48 cents per share, for the three months ending Aug. 30.
Best Buy Co. said Tuesday that its second-quarter profit slid 19 percent as it spent money to boost cell phone sales by completing the rollout of its Best Buy Mobile concept to nearly 1,000 North American stores.
Napster Inc., the online music community that rose from a dorm room project to became the scourge of the global recording industry, is being purchased by Best Buy Inc. for nearly $127 million as the electronics retailer tries to boost its digital music business.
UPDATE 2-Best Buy plans movie download service with Sonic | Deals | Mergers & Acquisitions | ReutersBest Buy Co Inc (BBY.N) plans to start an online service that allows consumers to buy, rent and download movies and television shows, the electronics retailer said on Tuesday.
Video Artist Takes Over Every HDTV in Best Buy For Art Installation As an electronics mega-retailer, Best Buy isn't normally interested in anything but moving huge quantities of TVs, computers and appliances out of its gaping doors. But the Houston St.
SpeedTrack Sues Just About Every Major Online Retailer Over Patent InfringementSoftware developer SpeedTrack has filed suit against nearly two dozen major online retailers, including Amazon.com, Best Buy, Overstock.com, Nike, Costco and Dell, accusing the major online retailers of infringing some patent that supposedly covers a search mechanism customers ca …
Best Buy and Verizon Jump Into E-Reader Fray, With iRexOn Wednesday, iRex Technologies, a spinoff of Royal Philips Electronics that already makes one of Europe's best-known e-readers, plans to announce that it is entering the United States market with a $399 touch-screen e-reader.
Is GameStop a Best Buy for Best Buy?Dow Jones cornered Best Buy's CFO at an investor conference and asked if he'd comment on speculation the retailer might buy GameStop. Ryan Robinson declined to do so, but said some things that still keep the subject alive.
Microsoft giving Best Buy anti-Linux trainingBest Buy told to misrepresent Linux. Microsoft has been sending Best Buy retail staff "training" material that deliberately attacks and in some cases distorts Linux, according to a leak from an anonymous Best Buy employee.
Rumor: Best Buy offering new PS3 buyers a free game to discourage Slim trade-insIn order to dissuade recent PS3 buyers from returning their systems in exchange for newer, slimmer ones, Best Buy is reportedly offering a free game to customers who come in for such an exchange.
Used game competitors no threat to GameStopGameStop has said that the entry of competitors such as Best Buy and Wal-Mart into the used games market has had no "meaningful impact" on its own second-hand sales.
Suspected Best Buy Shoplifter ArrestedA 27-year-old man, Brett Boyles, has been arrested and charged with 2nd-degree assault and aggravated robbery after shoplifting from a Broomfield Best Buy where two employees were fired for confronting him.
Is there really a boycott of Glenn Beck?We've heard about the boycott of the Glenn Beck Show on Fox News Channel, one where as many as 20 advertisers have dropped their spots, thanks to pressure from left-wing groups angry at … well, their latest anger du jour.
Best Buy Workers Fired For Confronting ShoplifterTwo Best Buy employees have been fired for confronting a knife-wielding shoplifter August 1st. Jared Berfstreser, 20, and Colin Trapp, 23, were fired Sunday, two weeks after they tried to stop two men who were fleeing the store at 271 E.
GameStop barks back at Best Buy's "new for the used price" promotionJust a few days ago, we let you all in on Best Buy's little experimental promotion to compete with GameStop — they were pricing their new game titles at the cost of a used copy of that same game.
Wal-Mart beats Best Buy with $298 laptop"For the first time, a 3GB memory laptop from a well-known brand has ventured below $300," Wal-Mart said in a statement Thursday.
Best Buy to receive new 80GB PS3 SKU after E3, will cost $399It looks as though Sony is planning to introduce yet another PS3 SKU in the coming weeks. A reader has tipped us to a new addition to Best Buy's product database -- a "limited edition" PS3 bundle that includes a 80GB system and two games.
$2164.89 Paving Stone in a MacBook Pro Box Looks Nice, But Won't Run PhotoshopA lot of readers sent us the story of a Florida teen who received the awesome birthday gift of some rocks and crumpled up Chinese newspapers inside a Nintendo DS box.
Best Buy's $10 games sale starts todayBest Buy is selling an assortment of $10 games starting today. Some highlights include Soulcalibur IV for PS3, Infinite Undiscovery for Xbox 360, Samba de Amigo for Wii, and Ninja Gaiden for DS.
inFamous Shocks Us With Uncharted 2 Multiplayer BetaA Best Buy pre-order box reveals that when you buy inFamous you will get Uncharted 2 Multiplayer beta access.
Best Buy plan squeezes staffing at storesAn in-store reorganization under way at the nation's largest consumer-electronics retailer, Best Buy Co. Inc., could lead to job cuts and lower pay for thousands of in-store employees, an analyst says.
Best Buy: Best Buy Sells 9-Year-Old Discontinued Hard Drive As Brand New Western Digital, Refuses RefundJon spent $250 on a Western Digital VelociRaptor but what he received from Best Buy was a Quantum Fireball, a discontinued hard drive that hasn't been sold for nine years.
Video: How Best Buy Uses Social Technologies To Change Internal CultureBest Buy has innovated social beyond most traditional retailers. We're quickly learning that social media success is often hinged on having an internal culture that's ready to accept and learn.
Best Buy Is Scum: Best Buy Staff Paid Bonuses to Deny Legit Guaranteed Price MatchesBest Buy, like many other stores, has a public "price matching" policy. But HD Guru reports that according to internal docs, personnel are trained to deny price-matches and even paid bonuses for shutting them down.
Geek Squad Decides Your Clearly Broken iPod Is FineGeek Squad told reader Dave that he didn't have the "technical expertise" to diagnose his clearly-broken iPod. The 30 GB unit wouldn't play when docked or connected by USB cord, something Dave though might be covered by Best Buy's Product Service Plan.
Cops Gun Down Car Burglary Suspect At Best Buy"On Wednesday at 3:30 in the afternoon in broad daylight--bullets were flying at a busy Kendall shopping plaza. Miami-Dade detectives unloaded their firearms at a pair of accused burglars who police say tried to run them over.
I wrote the article a while back and thought it was as relevant as ever since Circuit City has been forced to call it quits.
Wal-Mart iPhone Sales: Where's the Discount?"Wal-Mart is rolling out sales of the iPhone 3G this weekend -- but don't expect to see a lot of savings. As was speculated back in November, the discount retailer will begin carrying the iPhone on its shelves Sunday. Missing from the equation, though, is the discount.
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