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16 hrs ago | Triangle Business Journal

Best Buy offers 99-cent netbooks

Best Buy stores are offering netbooks for 99 cents with Sprint Nextel Corp. service agreements.

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Related Topix: Retail, Sprint, Telecom, IT Services, Laptops/Notebooks

Thu Jul 09, 2009

Minneapolis/St Paul City Business

Best Buy, TiVo team up

TiVo Inc. and Best Buy Co. Inc. said on Thursday that they are partnering on a broad program to promote each other's products.

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Related Topix: Retail, TiVo, Startups

East Bay Business Times

TiVo to make products for Best Buy

TiVo Inc. and Best Buy Co. Inc. said on Thursday that they are partnering on a broad program to promote each other's products.

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Related Topix: TiVo, Startups, Retail

Wed Jul 08, 2009

Fool.com

Best Buy Busts a Move

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Related Topix: Retail, Wal Mart Stores, Activision, Video Games, Software, Amazon.com

OfficialWire

Stock Alerts On Market Movers: EBAY, DDUP, RTP, BBY, DYN

Featuring: EBAY's positive analyst outlook; DDUP's continued fight for NTAP; RTP's $1.2B asset sale; BBY leveraging Twitter for business; and DYN's analyst outlook InvestorSoup.com announces the release of Stock Alerts covering market movers : eBay Inc.

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Related Topix: eBay, Startups, Data Domain, Rio Tinto, Mining, Retail, Oil & Gas, Dynegy, Computers, EMC

Austin American Statesman

Netscape founder launches venture firm

The man who popularized the Web browser has started a venture capital fund to back the next generation of new technologies.

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Related Topix: Venture Capital, Emerging Technology, Retail, Microsoft, Software, San Francisco Metro, San Jose Metro, Computer Security, Science / Technology

Tue Jul 07, 2009

CNET News.com

Best Buy shifts into electric vehicles sales

Coming to shopping aisle near you: the Brammo Enertia electric motorcycle. Would you like an electric bike to go with your new DVR? Best Buy has started selling electric vehicles, including the Enertia electric motorcycle from Brammo, according to reports.

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Related Topix: Retail, Computers, Emerging Technology

Mon Jul 06, 2009

E-Commerce Times

Best Buy Cruises for Green With Electric Vehicles

Best Buy is getting into the travel business -- that is, it's experimenting with selling a line of green-tech vehicles including electric bicycles, scooters and Segways.

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Related Topix: Retail, California

SchaeffersResearch.com

Will Green be Enough to Placate Best Buy Co. Investors?

Posted on 7/6/2009 12:04 PM Publication: "The Wall Street Journal" Publication title: Publication Date: 7/6/2009 KeyWords: BBY Brief Summary: Best Buy Co.

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Related Topix: Retail

Los Angeles Times

Best Buy takes electric vehicles for a spin

Customers who walk into some California Best Buy stores for a cellphone might walk out with an electric vehicle.

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Related Topix: Retail, California, Cellphones, Video Games, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles Metro

Sat Jul 04, 2009

Daily Herald

Best Buy uses Twitter to create sales

Best Buy Co., the world's largest electronics retailer, is building a customer-service team that will use Twitter Inc.

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Related Topix: Retail, Twitter, TV, Electronics, Marketing, Richfield, MN

Fri Jul 03, 2009

KSWB-TV San Diego

Home-buyer tax-credit program cut off by state

REAL ESTATE State halts tax-credit program California is cutting off applications for a tax credit that was designed to promote sales of new homes.

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Related Topix: Retail, Marketing, Richfield, MN

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Total Telecom

Vodafone contracts return to Carphone Warehouse

Deal marks end to three-year stand-off prompted by Voda's exclusivity deal with Phones4U.

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Related Topix: Vodafone Group, Telecom, Retail

Fool.com

Dangerously Delaying the Inevitable

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Housing, Retail

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Fool.com

Corning Could Double

Are you in the market for an LCD TV? Surveys say: Yes, you are! A recent story in the LA Times advises that flat-panel TV shipments in the U.S. were brisk in the first three months of this year -- 17% higher than the same period last year.

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Related Topix: Retail, Telecom, Corning, Electronics, TV, Target

The Motley Fool

These Tech Stocks Will Make Me Rich

Company Starting Price* Total Return Akamai $22.23 $20.11 Harris & Harris $6.22 $5.07 IBM $126.97** $106.06 Taiwan Semiconductor $10.34 $9.62 AVERAGE RETURN S&P 500 SPDR $123.67** $92.08 DIFFERENCE 14.32 Source: Yahoo! Finance.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Semiconductors, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Transportation, FedEx, Air Courier, Retail, Travel/Tourism, Carnival, Clemson University

Mon Jun 29, 2009

WCCO

Ex-Best Buyer Steals Thousands With Fake Returns

Jun 24, 2009 5:52 pm US/Central Reporting Caroline Lowe 1 of 1 Minnetonka Police said Randy Brown was not happy when he learned he was going to lose his job because of downsizing and decided to steal from the company.

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Related Topix: Minnetonka, MN, Retail, Offbeat

Sun Jun 28, 2009

MocoNews.net

Best Buy Wants 15 Percent Mobile Phone Market Share

Best Buy plans to open 40 standalone mobile phone stores this fiscal year in a bid to capture 15 percent of the US mobile phone market, its incoming CEO Brian Dunn said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics, Retail

Sat Jun 27, 2009

The Daily News

New CEO Took Reins at Best Buy on Wed.

It was September 1985 when a 24-year-old Name Search Watch Service ', TITLE, 'Learn More', WIDTH, 200, SHADOW, true, STICKY, 1, CLOSEBTN, true, CLICKCLOSE, true, BGCOLOR, '#e1e1e1', BORDERCOLOR, '#7d0200', TITLEBGCOLOR, '#7d0200')" onmouseout="UnTip()">Brian Dunn knotted his skinny leather tie and set off to began a job as a sales clerk inside a ...

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Related Topix: Retail, Minnetonka, MN, Wal Mart Stores, Opinion

Fri Jun 26, 2009

PennLive.com

Best Buy sees an opportunity in mobile distribution

Brian Dunn, the new CEO of Best Buy, announced yesterday, in an interview published in the Wall Street Journal , that the US' largest electronics retailer is seeking a 15% share of mobile activations, up from its current 3%, and will be opening 40 Best Buy Mobile stores in the US.

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Related Topix: Retail

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