Microsoft announced on Thursday a strategic partnership with Best Buy and Future Shop. The company plans to build Windows Stores in 500 Best Buy locations across the US and more than 100 Best Buy and Future Shop locations in Canada, launching from late June through September. The naming choice of Windows Stores is ...
Best Buy Begins Carrying 4K TVs
on 5.22.13
Best Buy started offering the high-end Sony 4K Ultra High Definition TV sets in 700 of its U.S. stores on Sunday in an effort to shake up the stagnant TV category. The TVs — which have 8.3 million pixels compared with the 2.1 million pixels on regular high-definition TVs — are purported to have four times as sharp a ...
Best Buy to Open Samsung Areas Within Some Stores
on 3.29.13
Congratulations, Samsung — Best Buy is honoring you with a distinction that it’s previously only given to Apple. Unnamed sources have told Geek.com that some Best Buy locations are planning to cordon off separate areas in their stores to exclusively sell Samsung products. Geek.com says that “this new section will be ...
Best Buy Takeover Talks End Without Deal
on 3.1.13
It appears that Best Buy founder Richard Schulze will not be resuming control of the struggling electronics retail giant any time soon. Negotiations between the Best Buy and Schulze's investment group have concluded without an agreement for taking the company private, sources with knowledge of the matter told The New York ...
Best Buy Fined $27 Million for Stealing Trade Secrets
on 12.7.12
A jury in California has determined that Best Buy must pay $22 million in damages for improper use of another company’s trade secrets, and another $5 million in punitive damages. In a lawsuit filed by start-up TechForward in the United States District Court for the Central District of California last year, the company ...
Best Buy has spent 50,000 hours training its employees about Windows 8
on 11.12.12
Key to Windows 8 are its new user interface elements, and its added touch-powered features. However, while these fresh capabilities open doors, at the same time they represent challenges; users need to be trained in the new features of Windows 8. To that end, Microsoft has invested heavily in opening stores, and new ...
Best Buy starts taking pre-orders for Windows 8 Phone handsets
on 10.21.12
With the debut of Windows Phone 8 a little more than a week away, Best Buy has begun taking pre-orders for Nokia and HTC flagship smartphones running Microsoft's new mobile operating system. The electronics retailer's Web site now lists the Lumia 920 for $149.99 with a two-year commitment and off-contract at $599.99. It ...
Google announces $249 Samsung Chromebook, available starting next week
on 10.18.12
Google has just announced that is releasing a brand new Chromebook next week hoping for viability in the laptop marketplace. Sundar Pinchai, SVP of Chrome and Apps, said that this new device will be available for $249 with orders beginning to take place next week. Additionally, the company will be opening up special kiosks ...
Microsoft cuts Xbox 360 price by $50, reveals new holiday bundles
on 10.18.12
Microsoft is giving consumers two more reasons to buy an Xbox 360 this holiday season. First, all Xbox 360 consoles except the standalone 4GB model without Kinect will receive a $50 price cut for a limited time at all major retailers including Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, Target, Toys ‘R Us and Walmart. Second, there are ...
Best Buy Tablet Coming in November
on 10.17.12
Apple has the iPad, Amazon has the Kindle Fire HD and Barnes & Noble has the Nook HD+. Clearly feeling left out, Best Buy is going to enter the tablet fray with its own device, the Insignia Flex. According to Reuters, the tablet will sell for between $239 and $259. Best Buy released the specs on the Insignia Facebook ...
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