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360i Pits Amazon Alexa Against Google Home
360i Pits Amazon Alexa Against Google Home
June 30, 2017  |  Retail

360i asked Amazon Alexa and Google Home 3,000 questions and found out that the Home is (sometimes) smarter than Alexa — it all depends what...

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San Francisco Startup Lumoid Lets Best Buy Shoppers Try Before They Buy
San Francisco Startup Lumoid Lets Best Buy Shoppers Try Before They Buy
June 13, 2017  |  Retail

What does Best Buy have that Amazon doesn’t? Thanks to a partnership with San Francisco startup Lumoid, it’s a rental option that lets electronics shoppers...

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Best Buy Better Than Expected In Q4
Best Buy Better Than Expected In Q4
March 02, 2017  |  Retail

Best Buy recently released its Q4 and full-year earnings report for the company’s FY17. For the quarter, the national consumer electronics retailer reported GAAP diluted...

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200 Oculus Pop-Ups Close Due To Low Sales
200 Oculus Pop-Ups Close Due To Low Sales
February 09, 2017  |  Retail

Facebook is set to close some 40 percent of its Oculus pop-up stores due to low consumer interest. At least 200 of the 500 Oculus...

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Best Buy Dinged $3.8 Million For Selling Recalled Items
Best Buy Dinged $3.8 Million For Selling Recalled Items
October 05, 2016  |  Retail

Best Buy will pay a $3.8 million civil penalty for selling about 600 recalled products, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), which...

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Best Buy Spotlights Startups
Best Buy Spotlights Startups
September 27, 2016  |  Retail

Best Buy is giving startups a chance with some space in the store through a new program called Ignite. The program goes along with the...

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Report: Big-Box Stores Could Thrive Due To Sheer Size
Report: Big-Box Stores Could Thrive Due To Sheer Size
September 15, 2016  |  Retail

Are big-box retailers, like Walmart and Best Buy, succeeding where their peers fail simply because of the larger physical size of their stores compared to...

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