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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,...
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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...
Accessories
House Of Marley Adds Wireless Smile Jamaica Headphone Model
House of Marley’s new wireless version of its Smile Jamaica headphones continues the company’s sustainable materials design aesthetic. The lightweight Bluetooth in-ear buds incorporate...
CE Financial Strategies
Decision Guide: Choosing the Right Accounts Receivable Outsourcing Provider
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New Sharp 4K UHD TV Line Arrives
The latest batch of Sharp Aquos TVs is hitting retail sales floors. The line, introduced by Hisense at CES, includes the mid-range 4K UHD...
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Amazon Show A Go For Echo Owners
Echo Show, Amazon’s first smart speaker with a touchscreen, is an object of desire among current Echo owners but merely rates a “meh” among...
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Back-To-School Tech Spending To Rise 6.4%, College Outlays Up 11%: Poll
Parents plan to spend $8.8 billion on back-to-school electronics this summer, an increase of 6.4 percent over last year. And, according to an annual...
Buying Groups
ProSource Adds 15 New Members
ProSource, the $4.5 billion-plus buying group for specialty A/V dealers and custom integrators, added 15 new members last quarter, for a total of approximately...
Accessories
Logitech Buys Astro Gaming For $85 Million
Logitech will acquire gaming headset and accessory manufacturer Astro Gaming in an $85 million cash deal. The deal is expected to close in early...
Accessories
Pioneer Unveils Low-Priced Streaming Car Receiver
Pioneer Electronics has added a new double-DIN 7-inch LCD digital media receiver to its NEX platform of aftermarket car audio products. The new MVH-2300NEX...
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Prime Day Breaks Amazon Sales Records
Amazon said yesterday’s Prime Day sales promotion raked in more revenue than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. The 30-hour haul was up by...
Distributors
Splish, Splash Almo’s Taking A Bath
Warren Chaiken’s all wet. At least he will be, along with other members of the Almo Corp. management team, when the appliance and electronics...
Audio
Samsung Sounds Off With MS750 Sound+ Soundbar
Samsung Electronics America (SAE) has begun shipping its MS750 Sound+ soundbar, which was designed to vertically expand the sound stage. Introduced last January at...
Industry
Samsung’s Tim Baxter Promoted To North America Chief
After 2.5 years as president/COO of Samsung Electronics America (SEA), Tim Baxter’s rank is rapidly rising. Following a promotion to president/CEO in May, Baxter...
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For Retailing Giants, The Top 100 Tech And Appliance Dealers Are Quite Nimble (They Have To Be)
Amazon’s second-place perch atop TWICE’s just-released Top 100 “Retailing Giants” ranking might suggest the jig is up for traditional dealers. Well, yes and no.
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Tech Consumers Unglued Over Sticky Labels
Imagine: Your customer finally gets that shiny new smartphone he’s been pining over; performs the unboxing ritual; carefully removes the product labels … but...
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Viewpoint: Deck The Halls
Season’s greetings! (He says, ducking) Only in the farkakte (look it up) world of retailing would perfectly sane men and women enjoy an early...