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Feds bust ATM hacking ringFederal authorities say theyve cracked a sophisticated computer hacking ring that stole more than $9 million within 12 hours last November, securing indictments against eight people from Russia, Estonia and Moldova.

Oh, we spoke too soon! Sort of. We didn't think that Best Buy was going to take Walmart 's bait this time , but the electronics retailer has announced that tomorrow it will launch its lowest-advertised-price laptop computer ever and beat the cost to consumer of Walmart's Thanksgiving special notebook - " a price that matches that retailer's lowest ...

Best Buy will appeal to value-conscious consumers with a dynamic holiday computing selection launching Nov.

Best Buy today announced the introduction of Club Beats, a new in-store destination created in partnership with Monster and Beats by Dr.

Walking between rows of DVDs at the Best Buy store in West Hollywood, Brandy Moore admits that she doesn't always buy the shiny discs anymore since she started downloading movies and TV shows from Apple's iTunes Store.

Minneapolis Best Buy Co. said Tuesday that it will launch its own movie download service for consumer electronics sold in its stores.

Microsoft tries to put more pop into Bing Microsoft Corp. is giving its MSN Web portal a long-overdue makeover and says it hopes the new site will funnel more people to Bing, the software maker's search engine.

Watching insiders is like participating in a weeks-long stakeout. You expect something to happen, but you don't know what.

Despite an economy that has many still feeling none too merry and forecasts for a 1 percent drop in holiday sales, the holiday hiring front news isn't all gloom and doom.

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David Gardner called it. Hea TMs up 1,334%! See what Davida TMs recommending that you buy NEXT.

Best Buy Co. said Tuesday it will soon offer an online movie store that will compete with Apple Inc.

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.

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Personal computers are changing - and not just because of the recent launch of Windows 7. Visit an electronics store and you might also find laptops are missing a familiar component.

It's known for bras and panties, but over the past couple of years, Canada's largest lingerie chain decided to give its customers more choice - too much choice, it turned out.

The world's largest electricals retailer, Best Buy, is to create 8,000 jobs in the UK over the next five years and is gearing up to open its first stores this coming spring, taking on Currys and Comet.

Best Buy Mobile, the mobile specialty retail unit of Best Buy Co., Inc., will pre-sell the highly anticipated Verizon Motorola DROID smartphone beginning October 29.

Filed under: Competitive strategy , RadioShack Corp It's extremely tough to survive in the retail consumer electronics space, especially with competitors like Best Buy and Wal-Mart . Yet, RadioShack continues to find ways push ahead.