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Dennis May Resigns From hhgregg; Robert Riesbeck Named Interim CEO
Dennis May has resigned as president/CEO from hhgregg. The retailer announced the news Tuesday evening. According to an 8-K filed today with the Security...
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Gaga As Bowie At The Grammys: Loved It Or Hated It, Intel Made It Memorable
It’s the non-Facebook equivalent of: “Is this dress blue and black or white and gold?” Lady Gaga’s tribute to David Bowie during Monday night’s...
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iPhone Takes On GoPro In This Stunning Video
Nicolas Vuignier’s thrilling video shows 360-degree views of him skiing in the Valais region of Switzerland, one arm raised above his head. In what...
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Jim Minarik To Retire as DEI Holdings CEO
Industry veteran Jim Minarik will retire from his position as CEO of DEI Holdings by July 1 but will remain non-executive chairman of the...
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Jodi Sally, Kara Glynn Join Hisense
Hisense USA has added two new executives to strengthen the marketing efforts of its consumer electronics brands. Jodi Sally has been named director of...
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Klipsch Names Vince Bonacorsi Senior Director, A New Role
Klipsch Group promoted Vince Bonacorsi to senior director of strategic business development, a new position for the company. Bonacorsi was previously sales director...
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Ex-Electrolux Chief Jack Truong Lands Gig At Husky
Jack Truong, former head of Electrolux North America, has left the major appliance industry for a new job as president/COO of injection molding equipment...
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Garriques Out As RadioShack CEO
Ron Garriques has stepped down as CEO of RadioShack after nine months on the job. Also leaving the chain is chief revenue officer Marty...
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Ex-RadioShack CEO Joe Magnacca Gets New Gig
Joe Magnacca, RadioShack’s last CEO while still a public company, has found a new job, and it’s not likely to violate his non-compete clause....
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Klipsch Group Continues To Reorganize
Klipsch Group continued to reorganize with the appointment of industry veterans Chad Vogelsong and Dusty Thomas to newly created positions. Vogelsong becomes senior director...
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Voxx Promotes Loriann Shelton To COO
Loriann Shelton has been promoted to Voxx International COO “to help streamline operations, generate greater collaboration and efficiencies, and put us in better position...
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Consumer Technology Association Honors Legendary Musician and Internet Pioneer David Bowie
The following statement can be attributed to Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) – formerly the Consumer Electronics Association...
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Haier Hires Former Belkin, Sharp Execs For Key Roles
Haier America has expanded its senior management ranks with the additions of Deanna Johnston as chief information officer and Chris Hogan as senior sales...
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Electrolux CEO Keith McLoughlin To Retire This Month
Keith McLoughlin, who has led Electrolux as president/CEO since 2010, will retire at month’s end following weeks of speculation and denials. He will be...
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CTA Names Tiffany Moore Congressional Affairs VP
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced Tiffany Moore has been named congressional affairs VP. Moore most recently worked as a consultant for TwinLogic Strategies,...
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RadioShack Names Nick Cannon As Chief Creative Officer
RadioShack, which is mounting a comeback of sorts, announced Nick Cannon will join as its chief creative officer. Cannon will assist in the development...
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Samsung Replaces Mobile Division Chief
Samsung replaced the president of its mobile communications division in the latest management change at Samsung Mobile. Koh Dong-Jin, who oversaw the launch of...
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LG Changes Organizational Structure To Speed Decision Making
LG Electronics created a new global leadership structure that it says will give its four operating companies more autonomy “to respond quickly and decisively...
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Howard’s Promotes Grant Hancock To VP
Grant Hancock has joined the senior management ranks of Howard’s TV & Appliance with his promotion this week to merchandising and marketing VP. Hancock...
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Ricoh’s Jim Malcolm To Head PMDA
Ricoh Imaging Americas president Jim Malcolm has been named president of the PhotoImaging Manufacturers and Distributors Association (PMDA). In taking the reins of the...
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Stewart Filmscreen President/CEO Grant Stewart Dies At 60
Stewart Filmscreen president and CEO Grant Stewart passed away this week at the age of 60, succumbing to a battle with cancer. He is...
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D&H Co-Presidents To Receive ADL Honors
D&H Distributing co-presidents Dan and Michael Schwab were named the 2015 recipients of the Torch of Liberty Award by the National Consumer Technology Board...
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Staples Co-Founder Tom Stemberg Dead At 66
Thomas Stemberg, co-founder of Staples and co-creator of the office-supply superstore concept, succumbed to stomach cancer last Friday. He was 66. He famously came...
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William Glasgow, Former CEA VP, Passes Away
William T. Glasgow Sr., vice president and show manager for the Winter and Summer Consumer Electronics Shows from 1975 to 1984, passed away, the...
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Klipsch Group Makes Another Change, Appoints Greg Ransom At Jamo
Klipsch Group announced another organizational change, this one creating the position of national sales manager for the Jamo speaker brand. Greg Ransom was promoted...
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Whirlpool’s Bitzer Named President/COO
Marc Bitzer, who ran Whirlpool’s North American and European businesses as vice chairman, has been promoted to president and COO of the company and given...
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Jabra Names Paul Hamnett President Of Biz Solutions
Jabra announced two significant personnel changes on Monday. Paul Hamnett was appointed as president of business solutions for North America. He was previously sales...
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Bratspies, Furner Named Top Merchants In Walmart-Sam’s Club Shake-Up
Walmart U.S. appointed former hardlines and grocery head Steve Bratspies chief merchandising officer in a corporate shuffle that also trimmed 450 headquarters jobs. Reporting...
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Klipsch Names Steve Jain To Run New Digital Speaker Division
Klipsch Group, the maker of speakers and headphones, created a digital speaker division and appointed former SMS Audio executive Steve Jain to run it....
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Conan O’Brien’s ‘Michael Dell’ Says Don’t Think Different. Think Same.
The upcoming “Steve Jobs” film is naturally garnering a lot of attention. But Team Coco thinks we’re all missing the bigger biopic: Michael Dell....
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Steve Wozniak Played True Confessions With Seth Rogen On ‘The Tonight Show’
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” to play an intense truth-telling game with Seth Rogen. (Rogen is portraying...
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Viken Leaves Sharp For Hisense
Industry veteran Mark Viken is leaving Sharp Electronics Marketing Company of America (SEMCA) to become Hisense USA’s marketing VP to oversee the company’s product...
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Krell President Bill McKiegan Teams Up With Krell Co-Founder Dan D’Agostino
Krell president Bill McKiegan left Krell to become president of Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems. Worth noting is that the namesake of the company,...
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Klipsch Names Oscar Bernardo As COO
Klipsch made another big personnel announcement on Tuesday. Oscar Bernardo, who has been with Klipsch since 2006, has been named COO. He was previously...
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How To Hack Your Amazon Dash Button
Consumers are finding their own creative uses for the order-fulfillment Amazon Dash buttons and they’re posting the instructions online. Brody Berson altered his Wi-Fi-enabled...
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Klipsch Names Rob Standley VP/GM For New Home, Cinema, Commercial Division
Klipsch Group combined the leadership of its home speaker business and its commercial and cinema businesses with the promotion of Rob Standley as VP/general...
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Pope’s Visit To NYC To Delay iPhone 6s Deliveries?
New Yorkers are generally a cranky bunch, and nothing gets their ire up more than when some VIP decides to visit Manhattan and screw...
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Sears Lures Former Amazon Fulfillment Chief Girish Lakshman From Retirement
Sears Holdings has scored something of a coup by bringing over former Amazon.com logistics head Girish Lakshman as fulfillment president. The newly created position...
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CEDIA Taps Vincent Bruno, Former Crestron Exec, As New CEO
CEDIA hired custom-install industry veteran Vincent Bruno as CEO. The former Crestron executive takes the job next month. CEDIA decided in May to hire...
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Tim Cook Talks iPhone 6S, Driverless Cars On ‘The Late Show’ With Stephen Colbert
Tim Cook talked with Stephen Colbert about the new iPhone, the rumor that it’s developing a driverless car, Steve Jobs and other Apple fun...
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4 Questions For Target CEO Brian Cornell
Target’s chief executive Brian Cornell kicked off his second year at the helm by addressing some 13,000 red-and-khaki-clad sales associates at the company’s Fall...
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Bezos Nearing Blast-Off
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Blue Origin, his privately funded space-exploration start-up, will launch from Cape Canaveral. Blue Origin is teaming with United Launch...