Appliances
Danby Appliances Entering Cannabis Biz
Danby Appliances is developing a new product line that is giving added meaning to “joint venture.” The Canadian majap maker is teaming up with...
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Otter Readies Its 1st Brick-And-Mortar Retail Store
Joining the trend of experimental brick-and-mortar, Otter Products will open its first retail store in its Fort Collins, Colo., hometown. The accessory manufacturer, best...
Industry
Jeannette Howe Heads To Transformative Engineering As Sales VP
Industry veteran Jeannette Howe has joined A/V and data communications device maker Transformative Engineering (T-E) as VP sales. Howe, most recently membership director of the BrandSource/AVB...
Financial
Apple Reports Record Growth For Services Division
It was another good quarter for Apple, even as consumers wait expectantly for the iPhone 8. The company announced its fiscal Q3 results on...
Appliances
LG’s QuadWash Will Bring NYC Its 1st Waterpark At Citi Summer Streets
LG Electronics USA does things in a big way. Case in point: the company’s new QuadWash dishwasher platform, which doubles up on the category’s...
Audio
Klipsch Adds Atmos-Ready Reference Speakers
Klipsch is bringing Dolby Atmos to its Reference line of home-theater speakers. According to the company, these will be the first two-way, horn-loaded Atmos-enabled...
Accessories
Phiaton Unveils BT 390 Bluetooth Headphones
Phiaton last week unveiled its first new headphones since CES 2016. Targeted toward travelers and commuters, the on-ear BT 390 wireless headphones feature Bluetooth...
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This Tech Dealer Has The Most Productive Sales Floor In All Of Retail
Best Buy and Walmart may be the two largest brick-and-mortar tech dealers around, but when it comes to sales floor productivity no one holds...
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Blink Zone Defense
Blink Zones are helpful in differentiating the uses you have for your Blink cameras. One benefit to have cameras on different systems is to...
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Blink XT One Camera System
The Blink XT One Camera System is engineered as a whole-home security system that is also extremely easy to setup and install. The battery-operated...
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Samsung Wisenet SmartCam D1 Video Doorbell
The SmartCam D1 Video Doorbell enables homeowners to have complete monitoring of their front door. Featuring human facial recognition and detection technology, the Wi-Fi-connected...
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SimpleTV Ends EPG Service For Cloud-Based DVRs
Tiburon, Calif.-based SimpleTV announced it’s shutting down the electronic program guide service associated with its Cloud-based DVR products. An early entrant in the Cloud-dependent...
Imaging
Nikon Giving Away $100,000 In College Scholarships; Honoring Instagram Photographers
Nikon will help cultivate the next generation of photographers and visual artists, in conjunction with the company’s 100th anniversary, by giving away $100,000 in...
Financial
Amazon Sales Rise 25% In Q2 To Reach $38 Billion
Amazon’s net sales increased 25 percent to $38 billion in the second quarter, ended June 30, compared with $30.4 billion in Q2 2016. But...
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Border Adjustment Tax (BAT) Is Dead For Now
The controversial border adjustment tax (BAT) is being put aside for the time being, according to a joint statement from the “Big Six.” House...
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Best Buy Adding Dyson In-Store Experiences
Best Buy announced its latest in-store experience partnership: Dyson. The retailer will install about 90 Dyson Demo Experiences in U.S. stores beginning next month,...
CES
3rd CES Asia Breaks Records
This year’s CES Asia was the largest yet, as measured in both size and attendance. Owned and produced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)...
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Smart TVs Nudging Roku, Chromecast Aside
The number of people in the U.S. who will use a smart TV is expected to rise 10.1 percent from last year, to 168.1...
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Samsung Rides Chip Sales, Galaxy S8 To Record Profit
Samsung has recovered nicely from last year’s phone debacle. The company reported a record profit of about $12.6 billion in the second quarter, with...
Buying Groups
Nationwide Kicks Off Its Largest Summer Event In History
Nationwide Marketing Group kicked of a new promotional event to help its members grab additional market share during the summer. The buying group for...
Appliances
LG Tops In Customer Satisfaction In Kitchen & Laundry: J.D. Power
LG ranks highest in customer satisfaction in seven of 11 kitchen and laundry appliance segments measured by J.D. Power. The “J.D. Power 2017 Kitchen...
Audio
Marantz Launches SR5012, SR6012 Network A/V Receivers
Marantz has introduced two new networked A/V receivers that allow multiroom audio playback via Heos integration. The SR5012 and SR6012 models are equipped with...
Industry
JCPenney Taps Jeffrey Davis, Former Walmart Exec, As New CFO
Just two weeks after JCPenney chief financial officer Edward Record announced he would step down, the chain has selected its new exec: Jeffrey Davis....
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Motorola Tries To Beat iPhone 8 & Note 8 To The Punch With Z2 Force & Moto Mod Ecosystem
On the heels of last month’s Moto Z2 Play and additional modular add-ons, Motorola today unveiled its new flagship, the Moto Z2 Force Edition,...
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LG Going All-In On OLED
LG Display announced it will invest a total of almost $7 billion to boost production of OLED panels for smartphones through 2019, bringing its...
Audio
Klipsch Brings Back Forte Speaker
Klipsch has revived its best-selling Forte loudspeaker, which has been out of production since 1996. The first- and second-gen Forte speakers combine to be...
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LG’s Newest Hom-Bot Turbo+ Robot Vacuum Is Also A Smart-Home Cam With Google Assistant
What would Rosie the Robot do? LG introduced a trio of new Hom-Bot+ Turbo robotic vacuums this week, including one positioned as a home-security...
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Alphabet Spells P-R-O-F-I-T
Alphabet’s revenue continues its upward streak as the Android, Google and YouTube parent saw second-quarter earnings growth of 21 percent year over year. The...
Audio
Emotiva Readies 1st CEDIA Demos
Emotiva Audio will exhibit this year at CEDIA for its first time. The company intends to demo several of its newest products, including the...
Audio
Russound Ships Outdoor Landscape Speaker
Russound is shipping its first landscape speakers meant for use in outdoor audio environments. The new 70-volt/100-volt/8-ohm AW4-LS-BR speaker, with a suggested retail of...
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Walmart Rolling Out More Giant Order-Fulfillment Vending Machines
Walmart is expanding its massive Pickup Tower vending machines to an additional 80 locations, up from the 20 towers already installed. The towers, which...
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Global Smartphone Demand Continues To Grow
Despite its maturity as a category, global demand for smartphones registered the best second quarter on record in 2017. According to GfK, smartphone demand...
Distributors
New Age’s Vegas Summit: Place Your Bets On Omnichannel, Smart Home
Tech retail may be a crapshoot these days, but New Age Electronics believes that a properly merchandised assortment of home automation, muscular laptops, drones...
Industry
Marty Borish, NAD Electronics Founder, Dies At 89
NAD Electronics founder and industry veteran Martin L. Borish (Marty) died July 11, the company announced, after a battle with cancer. Borish was born...
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Paying Via Facial Recognition? Consumers Say ‘Bring It On’: Viewpost
Consumers are ready and willing to embrace high-tech payment services, according to a recent study from Viewpost. The company, a supplier of transaction networks...
Car Electronics
Escort Cuts The Cord With New Radar Detector
Escort introduced two new radar and laser detectors this week, the Solo S4 and X80. The battery-powered S4 is designed for road warriors who...
Accessories
The Top 10 Most Successful Headphones Brands Online
When it comes to the business of selling headphones online, discoverability means a lot more than pegboards and end caps. Brand View, which recently...
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Sears To Sell Kenmore Major Appliances On Amazon
Sears will begin selling its Kenmore line of major appliances on Amazon, marking the first time Kenmore major appliances are sold by another retailer....
CTA
U.S. CE Industry Will Grow 3.2% This Year: CTA
Consumer enthusiasm for technology is exceeding expectations and will drive the U.S. CE industry to an estimated 3.2 percent growth this year, according to...
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Bluetooth Mesh Makes Its Official Debut
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced that the Bluetooth LE spec now supports mesh networking, making the wireless technology an option for large-scale...
Accessories
Audio-Technica’s High-Res Wireless Headphones Now Available
Audio-Technica has begun shipping its ATH-DSR9BT wireless headphones, said to transmit a digital audio signal from source to driver. The headphones are also able...
Appliances
June Appliance Shipments Up 14%: AHAM
Appliance dealers loaded up on inventory last month in advance of the key July 4th holiday shopping period. According to the latest vendor data...