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CES Is Way Different Than Ever Before
If you are reading this in Las Vegas this week welcome to CES 2016. Aside from the show’s new name (it is no longer...
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Big Ass Fans Out In The Smart Home
Big Ass Solutions, the supplier of high-end Wi-Fi-enabled ceiling fans, created a new division to expand its home-automation portfolio to lighting, HVAC, and lower...
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Shopping List
Happy New Year and for those of you lucky enough to attend, welcome to CES 2016. As always, the best and the brightest of...
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Shopping List
Happy New Year and for those of you lucky enough to attend, welcome to CES 2016. As always, the best and the brightest of...
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Shopping List
Happy New Year and for those of you lucky enough to attend, welcome to CES 2016. As always, the best and the brightest of...
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5 Things We Can’t Wait To See At CES 2016
1 Letv will mark its official entry into the U.S. market with a 120-inch 4K Ultra HD TV. Beijing-based Letv has a hand in...
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Staples-Office Depot Merger In Limbo After FTC Action
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has moved to block Staples’ proposed $6.3 billion acquisition of Office Depot. Following a unanimous vote, the regulatory agency...
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TV Sales Have Doubled This Holiday Season
Consumers are buying nearly twice as many TVs this holiday season as last year, a new survey suggests. According to a Christmas shopping forecast...
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Black Friday P.S.: Tech Did Better On Thanksgiving
Sales of consumer electronics were stronger on- Thanksgiving than they were on Black Friday, an assessment by Stitch Labs shows. According to the inventory...
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2015 Newsmakers of the Year
TWICE presents the 2015 Newsmakers of the Year. The editors have selected members of this year’s class based on a complex editorial algorithm encompassing...
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Eddie Lampert: The Billionaire On His 9th Retail Life
What’s your end game, Eddie? That’s the question everyone’s been asking, literally from day one. Back in November 2004, at an analyst/press conference where...
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Bob Abt: The House That Bob Built
It’s hard to describe Abt Electronics unless you’ve actually been there. The privately held company’s lone Chicagoland mega-showroom is part department store and part...
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Holiday Shopping’s Far From Over: Report
Retailers had better brace for a final barrage of holiday sales. Despite an earlier-than-ever start to the holiday shopping season, 30 percent of consumers,...
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Hubert Joly: Building A Better Best Buy
And they said it couldn’t be done. Just three scant years ago pundits were ready to write off Best Buy, which, between sagging sales,...
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Marc Lore: A Successful Flight Path For Jet.com
It may not be the anti-Amazon of pre-launch hype, but e-commerce veteran Marc Lore has so far demonstrated Jet.com’s airworthiness. The e-tail upstart took...
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Jeff Bezos: Attaining Greater Heights
It was another busy year for Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. First up, the e-commerce king’s ideations literally took flight in 2015, on two fronts. Last...
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Jun Lei: A Steve Jobs Doppelganger In China?
China’s Xiaomi was founded in 2010 by Lei Jun is a purveyor of sleek, affordable good-quality phones sold only on the Internet and promoted...
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John Legere: The Uncarrier’s Uncommon CEO
John Legere didn’t hold back this year in the speed with which he rolled out wireless initiatives or the pace with which fourletter words...
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Vincent Bruno: A Change At The Top In The Custom World
Longtime Crestron executive Vincent Bruno came on board Oct. 1 as the first CEDIA CEO in more than three years, and he has plans...
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ZTE: Affordable, Unlocked Phones To Rise
ZTE USA, though not among the top five in U.S. installed- base market share, has been making moves to expand its share, and it...
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Google-Designed Pixel C Tablet Lands
Google’s Pixel C, promoted as the first Android tablet “built end-to-end” by the Internet giant, debuted on the Google Store at $499 plus $149...
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Carl Pei: The Smartphone Biz Gets A Disruptor
Carl Pei, co-founder of Chinese smartphone start-up OnePlus, won’t let the facts get in the way of success. Fact: In the third quarter, five...
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Marcelo Claure: The CEO Who Stanched The Bleeding
Marcelo Claure inherited a mess when he became Sprint president/CEO in August 2014. Sprint had been losing money every year since 2007. On top...
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Eric Migicovsky: The Wearables World’s Game Changer
It was a busy year for Eric Migicovsky. The founder and CEO of Pebble — the start-up that’s not really a start-up anymore —...
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Mark Fields: Accelerating The Future Of Cars
Mark Fields has put the future firmly in Ford’s headlights. “I describe our strategy as having one foot in today and one foot in...
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Taylor Swift: A Pop Princess And Her Fight For Fairness
She could be a newsmaker twice over. Although Taylor Swift’s bad blood with with music-streaming service Spotify first began in November 2014 — when...
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Neil Young: Swimming Against The Mainstream
When it comes to “Music the way the artist intended,” the oft-heard sound byte used by the CE industry to describe sound quality, Neil...
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Carly Fiorina: From Controversial CEO To Divisive GOP Candidate
Although Carly Fiorina has used her past position as CEO of Hewlett-Packard as her platform for capturing the Republican presidential nomination, critics have pointed...
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It Was A Very Good Year
The holiday season is one of reflection and here at TWICE we like to carve out some time every December to look back a...
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LG Secures 1st Super Bowl Spot For OLED TV, Enlists Ridley Scott
LG Electronics will run its first Super Bowl commercial ever, a spot for its OLED TVs, and has enlisted RSA Films, founded by director...
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Sundar Pichai: Sometimes Nice Guys Finish First
When Sundar Pichai was named to succeed Larry Page as Google CEO in August, many in the mainstream business press responded with a collective...
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Satya Nadella: Opening Windows And Seeing Clouds
2015 was the year Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made his mark. After succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014, Nadella endured a painful honeymoon period, cleaning...
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Palmer Luckey: A Luckey Guy
His flagship product still hasn’t hit the market, but Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has made headlines with every pronouncement, no matter how tiny, regarding...
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Simon Shen: Expanding 3D’s Base
With 26 percent of the world’s 3D printer sales, XYZprinting, led by chairman Simon Shen, is not resting on its laurels. The company is...
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James Park: A David Outpacing The Wearables Goliaths
Fitbit CEO James Park sees the writing on the wall. While his company got off to a fast start in the wearable fitness tracker...
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Vizio Offers New Entry-Level D-Series LED TVs
Smart, 4K UHD models included Vizio began shipping its new entry-level D-series LED TV line on Vizio.com and coming soon to Walmart. The lineup...
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Frank Wang: King Of The Drones
Frank Wang made his first drone in a Hong Kong dorm room in 2006. In 2015, he’s taken the category to new heights. As...
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Santa’s Rejects: A Plan for Managing Taxes On Returns
In 2014, Americans returned $68.8 billion worth of holiday goods, which amounted to 11.2 percent of all holiday sales. If the trend repeats itself...
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Sony’s Fasulo On Retail, 4K, High-Res Audio
Mike Fasulo, president/COO of Sony Electronics, was in New York for several days in November for the annual Anti-Defamation League industry dinner and events...
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DirecTV Preps For Live 4K Sports Broadcasts
Sees Ultra HD broadcasts starting in early 2016, report says DirecTV is testing Ultra HD 4K transmission of live sports events and plans to...
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App Growth For Windows Phones Hits New Roadblock
Has Microsoft’s Windows Bridge For Android turned into a bridge too far? Microsoft is behind schedule in offering tools that would let app developers...
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Staples-Office Depot Deal Hits A Snag
Staples’ proposed $6.3 billion buyout of Office Depot may be hitting a regulatory roadblock. According to reports, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is split...