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Who Loves Ya, Baby? Retail Workers Rate Their CEOs
Likeability isn’t necessarily a requirement for success as a CEO (see George Pullman), but it certainly can’t hurt to have your employees behind you....
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Appliances
LG Appliances Shine Under Scrutiny
Reliability metrics are up while Energy Star efforts redoubled May was a busy month for LG Electronics’s U.S. appliance contingent, which was cited (in...
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Lights Out For Giants
R.I.P. hhgregg & Radioshack. Is Sears Next? That shudder you felt last month was the closing of more than a thousand CE retail stores...
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Analysts Buoyed By Best Buy’s Boost
Best Buy’s solid Q1 results exceeded its own and Wall Street’s forecasts, sending its shares up 15 percent and earning praise from retail analysts....
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Deal May Help The OnePlus 5 Fix Its Weakest Link
Imaging boost can boost image While mobile phone disrupter OnePlus has been lauded for its affordable “flagship killers,” imaging has not necessarily been one...
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A Peek Inside Walmart’s New ‘Supercenter Of The Future’
Last June we provided a sneak peek at Walmart’s latest electronics department reset, courtesy of our friends at Field Agent. Now, as the world’s...
Appliances
GE Leads Costco’s Deeper Dive Into Majaps
Costco has added the GE and GE Profile brands to its growing assortment of major appliances. The lines will join a roster of Top...
Audio/Video
Cord-Cutter Belt Gets Another Notch
Nuvyyo’s next-gen DVR is the best of both worlds Providing a new way for cord-cutters to view and record over-the-air (OTA) broadcast content, Ottawa-based...
CTA
Smartphones Overtake DVD/Blu-ray For No. 2 Most-Owned Tech: CTA
Smartphones are now in 80 percent of U.S. homes, according to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), making them second most frequently owned tech product...
Home Automation
Smart Speakers Are Driving Smart-Home Growth
Voice control in the connected-home market will rapidly expand the adoption of such devices, according to the latest forecast from Park Associates. Parks is...
Accessories
Taking Aim At The Underserved Market Of Cinephiles
Yamaha’s new eighth-generation Aventage series network A/V receivers adds a litany of advanced video capabilities as well as expanded support for music streaming services...
Home Automation
Samsung’s Connect Home Mesh Router For Smart Homes Will Be Available July 2 At Best Buy
Samsung’s Connect Home Wi-Fi mesh router for smart homes will become available at Best Buy beginning July 2, with pre-orders beginning this Sunday, June...
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GE Joins Costco’s Appliance Alliance
Costco has added the GE and GE Profile brands to its growing assortment of major appliances. The lines will join a roster of Top...
IP Set-Top Boxes
Sling Upgrades Interface For Easier Content Search
Sling TV launched several new user interface improvements to make content discovery on the service easier. The updates begin rolling out to Android users...
Appliances
Whirlpool Petitions Feds To Pursue Samsung And LG
Updated! No. 1 global majap maker Whirlpool is looking to limit its competitors’ ability to evade anti-dumping laws by shifting production from country to...
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Nuvyyo Launches Next-Gen Tablo Dual DVR for Cord-Cutters
Providing a new way for cord-cutters to view and record over-the-air (OTA) broadcast content, Ottawa-based Nuvyyo, makers of the Tablo line of cloud-centric DVRs,...
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LG Debuts New Compact ProBeam Laser Projector
LG Electronics USA is shipping its latest compact home theater projector, the LG ProBeam. The laser projector weighs less than 5 pounds and can...
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hhgregg Is No More
hhgregg is finally out of its misery, although the pain is just beginning for thousands of former employees. The once multiregional CE, appliance, bedding...
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Samsung Announces New VR Partnerships With UFC, X-Games, Live Nation
Samsung has inked deals with UFC, X Games and Live Nation to stream select live events in virtual reality. Samsung’s VR Live Pass on...
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Roku Adds DirecTV Now
Finally! Making good on a promise made at its introduction launch last November, DirecTV Now is available for select Roku devices and TV sets...
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RadioShack Has Essentially Shut All Its Stores
Updated! General Wireless Operations (GWO), which runs the RadioShack chain and website, has pulled the plug on most of its remaining stores. The company said...
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Best Buy Revamping Mobile Departments
Best Buy is updating its mobile departments and web pages to keep in step with recent changes in the wireless business, such as installment...
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Queen City Opening Sixth Store In June
Queen City Audio Video & Appliances, the independent Charlotte, N.C.-based chain, is back in expansion mode. Five years after reorganizing under Chapter 11, the...
Industry
Ty Ahmad-Taylor Steps Down As THX CEO
Ty Ahmad-Taylor has stepped down as president CEO of THX, the company announced, and is now product marketing VP of global marketing solutions at...
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Sears’ Q1 Sales Tumble 20%
Sears Holdings said fiscal first-quarter revenue fell 20 percent in a vicious cycle of store closings and sales declines. The closings, which number 347...
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Best Buy’s U.S. Sales Edge Up 1.1% In Q1
Updated!Best Buy said strength in gaming and mobile helped drive a 1.1 percent increase in fiscal first-quarter revenue in the U.S. Sales here hit...
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Bankers Warranty + Bonded Builders = Centricity
There’s change afoot at Bankers Warranty Group (BWG). The extended-service contract provider for tech and appliance retailers has merged with Bonded Builders, which provides...
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hhgregg’s Assets Up For Grabs
hhgregg may be about to close the last of its stores, but that won’t be the last you’ll hear of it if Hilco Streambank...
Accessories
Sphero Revs Up For ‘Cars 3’ With Smartphone-Controlled Lightning McQueen
Sphero, perhaps best known in the connected toy space for its adorable BB-8 replica robot, is bringing smartphone control to the next Disney superstar:...
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Hisense’s 1st ULED TVs Hit Retail Shelves
Hisense has begun shipping its first ULED TV models, starting with the premium-tier H9D and H9D Plus 4K ULEDs, first introduced at CES 2017....
Audio
New Yamaha Flagship Aventage RX-A Receiver Line Aimed Squarely At Cinephiles, Music Streamers
Yamaha’s new eighth-generation Aventage series network A/V receivers adds a litany of advanced video capabilities as well as expanded support for music streaming services...
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Walmart’s Tech Departments, Before And After
Last June we provided a sneak peek at Walmart’s latest electronics department reset, courtesy of our friends at Field Agent. Now, as the world’s...
Accessories
Digital Energy World Debuts Tech Fidget Spinners
It was only a matter of time. Digital Energy is bringing fidget spinners — the hottest new craze in schools — to the consumer electronics...
Appliances
New GE Commercials Connect With Alexa Under Updated Tagline
GE has begun touting its smart appliances’ Alexa connection in a pair of new TV spots that began airing last Sunday during ABC’s “Billboard Music...
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DxO Deal May Help The OnePlus 5 Fix Its Weakest Link
Updated! While mobile phone disrupter OnePlus has been lauded for its affordable “flagship killers,” imaging has not necessarily been one of its strong points....
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Dish Embraces Amazon Alexa, Fire TV
Dish has teamed up with Amazon to improve its DVR functionality. Available today, Dish customers with a Hopper or Wally and an Amazon Echo,...
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The Peter Principle: Retail’s Revival Begins At Home
In the push to achieve scale, retail has lost sight of what Dorothy learned the hard way in Oz: There’s no place like home.
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It’s Time To Re-Embrace The Baby Boomers
As many of our clients look for ways to leverage the Internet of Things (IoT), the greatest innovation opportunities are likely to be among...
Accessories
High-Res Gets More Portable Thanks To Pioneer
Pioneer expanded its high-res audio offerings with the addition of the XDP-30R digital audio player and the SE-CH5BL ear buds. The XDP-30R player has...
Accessories
JVC Makes A Splash In Action Cams
JVC is putting a new twist on the action-cam market with a pair of rugged camcorders. Although the Everio R GZ-R550 and GZ-R440 are...
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Methodology For The Top 100
See the science behind the numbers (and how we decide what constitutes a CE product).
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Monster Digital Teams With Petra To Bring Virtual Reality To The Masses
Monster Digital’s products are about to become available to a much wider audience thanks to a recent deal with Petra Industries. Monster Digital, an...