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Best Buy Spicing Up Its Services Menu
Best Buy has seen the future of CE retail and it is tech services. At the company’s first investor conference since launching its Renew...
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… While Queen City Raises The Flag For Independents
While national chains are closing stores, Queen City Audio Video & Appliances is busy opening them. The Charlotte, N.C.-based independent, now in its 65th...
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Holiday Sales To Moderate As Digital Momentum Grows
The long runway to Christmas is underway, and prognosticators are wasting no time rolling out their fourth-quarter sales projections. One of the first out...
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Amazon Tapping Kohl’s For Order Returns, Tech Sales
Amazon will further wend its way into physical retail next month when 82 Kohl’s stores in Chicago and Los Angeles begin accepting product returns...
Appliances
Pirch Slips From Its Perch
Pirch, the ultra-premium kitchen, bath and appliance chain, is retrenching after nearly a decade of aggressive growth. The business, widely lauded for its 10...
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Hisense Shipping Next-Gen Roku TV
Hisense, which was among the first manufacturers to fully integrate Roku technology into TVs, has begun shipping the follow-up to its debut 1080p H4...
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The Implications Of The Long-Overdue Apple TV Update
For almost two years now, we’ve been waiting for Apple TV to catch up to the 4K/Ultra HD competition, including Roku’s Premiere+ and Ultra,...
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High-Res Audio Sales Growing Thanks To More Products, Lower Prices
High-res audio devices are seeing steady growth, The NPD Group said on Wednesday, and retailers can expect increased consumer awareness to continue this trend....
Accessories
She’s Like A Rainbow: Elevate Marks Rebrand With A Splash
Elevate is marking a new rebranding effort with a high-profile licensing partnership with the French Bull design company. The company, formerly PCT Brands (and...
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Vizio Wins Top Billing In Online-Selling Study
Vizio took home the gold in Brand View’s latest analysis of 4K TV online selling. As part of its exclusive market research for TWICE,...
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Beats’ Studio Wireless3 Headphones Get Apple W1 Chip
Beats by Dr. Dre has updated its top-of-the-line Studio Wireless headphones, adding the Apple W1 chip and upgrading the components. It also trimmed a...
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Amazon Brings Hands-Free Alexa To New Tablet
Amazon updated its Fire HD 10 tablet, the company’s largest model, giving the new version hands-free Alexa capabilities. It’s been one year since that...
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TWICE, Residential Systems Tap CEDIA Best Of Show
NewBay Media titles TWICE and sister brand Residential Systems have picked the CEDIA Best of Show winners for CEDIA 2017 in San Diego. These...
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Youthful TV Viewers Prefer Streaming Content
Yet another new survey of American consumers shows that live TV watching is becoming a thing of the past. The study, from Adobe Digital...
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Deloitte Forecasts A Merry Christmas For Retailers
Consumers’ income gains — and their propensity to spend it — should make for a jolly holiday season for merchants. According to Deloitte, the...
Accessories
Bose Builds Google Assistant Into QC35 II Headphones
Bose became the first headphones manufacturer to integrate Google Assistant into a pair of headphones. The company also introduced a new pair of...
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Apple’s iPhone 8 Goes On Sale Today: Who’s Going To Buy It?
The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus go on sale today, 10 days after being unveiled alongside the new flagship iPhone X. Unlike years...
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Queen City To Open Second New Store This Year
While national chains are closing stores, Queen City Audio Video & Appliances is busy opening them. The Charlotte, N.C.-based independent, now in its 65th...
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Amazon Tapping Kohl’s For Order Returns
Amazon will further wend its way into physical retail next month when 82 Kohl’s stores in Chicago and Los Angeles begin accepting product returns...
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Toys‘R’Us Joins Chapter 11 Club
Continuing an escalating if unnerving trend this year, Toys“R”Us, No. 21 on TWICE’s Top 100 CE Retailers Report, has joined the growing list of...
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Amazon Brings Hands-Free Alexa To New Fire HD 10
Amazon updated its Fire HD 10 tablet, the company’s largest model, giving the new version hands-free Alexa capabilities. It’s been one year since that...
Industry
Apple, Samsung, Google Blitz Emmy Awards Show
If it felt like you were at an industry trade show during last night’s Primetime Emmy Awards broadcast you weren’t alone, as the tech and even the...
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How iOS 11 Will Improve Your Current iPhone
Apple confirmed that its new mobile operating system, iOS 11, will be available tomorrow. The new OS will bring augmented reality to existing iPhones...
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Walmart To Open New HQ In Bentonville
Walmart will open new headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., in order to better streamline its operations. According to Walmart Stores president/CEO Doug McMillon, the retailer...
Home Automation
How Apple’s iPhone X Can Kick-Start Smart-Home Adoption
Apple’s new iPhone X will undoubtedly be one of the most fully featured phones on the market, but its role as the new brain...
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Black Friday Predictions: 4K TVs As Low As HD, Says DealNews
It’s not Black Friday (or Thanksgiving) without those TV doorbusters. DealNews, a consumer site that wades through retailer promotions all year long, expects upcoming...
Industry
Terri Schiek Appointed Sales VP Of Pelican Products Consumer Sales
CE accessory manufacturer Pelican Products has named Terri Schiek as sales VP of its U.S. consumer sales division. Schiek will be tasked with all...
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Luxury Appliance Chain Pirch Shutting Half Its Showrooms
Pirch, the ultra-premium kitchen, bath and appliance chain, is retrenching after nearly a decade of aggressive growth. The business, widely lauded for its 10...
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The Apple TV Refresh Was Long Overdue
September is always a busy month for Apple, and this year is no different with all but one of the new products the company announced...
Distributors
Tech Data Up And Running Again
Four days after Hurricane Irma slammed into Tech Data’s headquarters town of Clearwater, Fla., the global IT distributor is back in the saddle after...
Industry
TWICE & Residential Systems Name CEDIA Best of Show 2017
NewBay Media’s TWICE and Residential Systems have picked the CEDIA Best of Show winners for CEDIA 2017 in San Diego. These awards honor outstanding...
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Apple Unveils ‘The Future Of The Smartphone’ In iPhone X
Apple strayed from its usual protocol today by unveiling its new Apple 8 flagship phone, and then immediately surpassing it with its top-of-line iPhone...
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New Apple Watch 3 Boasts Stand-Alone Cellular Service
Apple announced its new Watch iteration today. The Apple Watch Series 3 is a stand-alone cellular device that packs a ton of new features,...
Distributors
Tech Data Still Down After Irma
Florida-based Tech Data, one of the world’s largest IT distributors, remains closed for a second day in the wake of Hurricane Irma. The company,...
Digital Cameras
Sony Debuts New Flagship Cyber-shot Camera, The RX10 IV
Sony today announced a new flagship Cyber-shot camera, the RX10 IV. With this model Sony is claiming the mantle of the world’s fastest autofocus...
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See Which Top TV Brands Are Winning Online
Vizio takes home the gold in Brand View’s latest analysis of 4K TV online selling. As part of its exclusive market research for TWICE,...
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Apple September 2017 Live Blog
Apple’s event is now over. See our coverage of what was announced: Apple Unveils “The Future Of The Smartphone” In iPhone X New Apple...
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Top 10 iPhone X Rumors
Apple will hold a press event tomorrow, Sept. 12, in which the company is expected to unveil the newest iPhone (widely referred to as...
Appliances
Washer Import Case Brings Out The Big Guns In Washington
Updated! Some of the biggest names in the appliance industry converged on Washington yesterday as Whirlpool’s anti-dumping crusade against Samsung and LG came to...
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Sony Expands 4K HDR Home Theater Projector Line With Entry-Level Model
Sony introduced its newest 4K HDR home-theater projector models during CEDIA 2017, including the entry-level VPL-VW285ES. The VPL-VW285ES is geared toward A/V enthusiasts seeking...
Home Automation
CEDIA 2017: Sonance In Major Product Launch As iPort Taps New Niches
Dana Innovations unveiled at CEDIA its largest number of Sonance-brand custom speakers in years while the company’s iPort brand added a premium tier to...
Home Automation
CEDIA 2017: Colorbeam Beaming Over Low-Voltage Lighting Potential
Colorbeam closed out its first year marketing home-wide low-voltage lighting-control systems and lights to residential and commercial A/V integrators in North America, and president...