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Tops Appliance City, the New York metro area superstore, has expanded its presence in both physical and cyber space. On the brick-and-mortar front, the...

Sears said it is dropping Hewlett-Packard and eMachine PCs to make Compaq its exclusive Windows-based computer supplier. Compaq, which currently shares shelf space with...

Circuit City is converting upwards of 35 Superstores to an electronics-only mix and will open six to eight freestanding majaps stores later this year....

NEW YORK — Best Buy’s long awaited entry into the New York market will finally occur this fall. After first aiming for February, and...

Macy’s is back in the consumer electronics business. After abdicating the category three years ago-as has most of the department store channel-Federated is using...

Richmond, Va. – Circuit City said plummeting appliance sales caused its comp-store numbers to slump for the second quarter ended August 31. The chain,...

The creation of ASTAR may be coming closer to reality. At press time, about 15 independent retailers, most affiliated with existing buying organizations, convened...

Struggling catalog showroom Service Merchandise said it will exit the consumer electronics category and slash more than 5,000 jobs as part of its plan...

Losses averaging $1 million a month from January 1998 through September 1999 have prompted home furnishings retailer Roberds to seek Chapter 11 protection and...

Purchases of appliances and consumer electronics helped goose otherwise sluggish comp store sales for mass merchants last month, as higher interest rates and gas...

Tweeter Home Entertainment Group will enter the e-commerce waters this fall through a 50-50 joint venture with online computer superstore Cyberian Outpost. The fruits...

In the second similar action by an industry retailer this year, the N.Y. Metro-area Tops Appliance City today voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 protection...

The planned $3.2 billion acquisition of most of the assets of Daewoo Electronics by Walid Alomar & Associates, a California investment group, may have...

November was a strong sales month for Circuit City and Tandy’s RadioShack operations. Circuit City said sales at its consumer electronics/appliance outlets for the...

The much-hyped $3.2 billion sale of most of the assets of Daewoo Electronics to the little-known California investment firm, Walid Alomar & Assoc., seems...

Negotiations for the $3.2 billion sale of most of the manufacturing assets of Daewoo Electronics to the Walid Alomar & Associates investment group have...

Marking an apparent end to on-going talks with the Philips/Pioneer/Sony group, Time-Warner and a group of Japanese manufacturers have set up their own DVD...

The future of Vidikron Technologies Group (VTG) as a going concern is up in the air, and its board is scheduled to meet tomorrow...

On the heels of Zenith’s emergence from Chapter 11 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Korea’s LG Electronics, president/CEO Jeffrey Gannon has resigned and...

Apple won a six-month court battle last month and stopped computer vendors eMachines and Future Power from marketing computers with industrial designs that mimic...

The growing threat posed by the Internet to home PCs has prompted Symantec to introduce the Norton Internet Security software suite. The title, expected...

The eight-year growth streak experienced by home computers may slow slightly next year, but data from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) still shows the...

Panasonic, Hitachi and Philips’ tactics for 4.7GB rewritable DVD drives will follow distinctly different paths next year, with the former two companies pushing DVD-RAM...

Panasonic’s plans for PC and consumer video DVD-RAM products has the company’s first 4.7GB drives in both categories slated to start shipping mid 2000,...

Cellular phone specialty chain Let’s Talk Cellular and Wireless filed for Chapter 11 protection today stating that it had exhausted its working capital and...

The nascent consumer demand for LCD desktop monitors has come to a crashing halt due to massive price increases that have taken place in...

Iomega is hoping its new ZipCD CD-RW drive will carve out a place in the crowded rewritable drive market and re-energize the company, which...

Sony has introduced PSone, a handheld version of its PlayStation game console, and will license the microprocessor technology for PlayStation 2. Published reports say...

Compaq today introduced the Presario 5861, its first PC to use the new AMD Athlon processor. The Presario 5861 will be available in about...

The DVD+RW format took two severe blows last week when Hewlett-Packard and Sony gave notice that they would not begin shipping product this year...

NEW YORK — Sony will take the floppy diskette-based Mavica digital camera to the next technological level this summer when it ships a camera...

Hewlett-Packard today expanded its digital camera line with the introduction of the PhotoSmart C912 and C618. Both cameras, slated to ship late this summer,...

Low cost PC-maker eMachines and FreePC today signed a definitive agreement to merge. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed, but FreePC shareholders...

Microsoft weathered the initial blow to its stock this morning and by mid-day has recovered about half the loss it suffered at the opening...

New York — Compaq has expanded its iPAQ product family into the Internet device arena and is considering pushing the line further away from...

Actiontec fleshed out its home-networking kit line at Comdex with the introduction of the ActionLink 10Mbps home networking kit. The phoneline-based product is expected...

NEW YORK — Windows Millennium (Me) sales during its first full week on the market topped 260,000 units, considerably slower than the initial sell...

Today at RetailVision, Intel launched three new home-networking products, including two wireless models that can tie a notebook computer into a home network. The...

Newcomers to PCs and the Internet are more comfortable shopping online then veteran computer users, according to a study by The NPD Group. The...

New York– Intel today announced a recall of its newest and fastest 1.13GHz Pentium III chip, while its primary competitor AMD started shipping its...

NEW YORK — Iomega took its first step toward reinventing itself as a consumer electronics company with the release of the HipZip digital audio...

NEW YORK — Hewlett-Packard introduced several new desktop and notebook computers yesterday at PC Expo. On the desktop front HP this week will start...