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Amazon Favored By 70% For Tech Purchases: Report
As if we needed further proof, a new consumer study adds another dimension to Amazon’s dominance of the consumer electronics industry. According to a...
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Consumers Will Spend Nearly $830 Billion On Back-To-School This Year
Back-to-school spending is expected to edge up this summer following an anemic 2015 selling season. According to market research firm eMarketer, total back-to-school (BTS)...
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Online Shopping Exceeds In-Store Purchases: Report
We knew this day was coming: According to a UPS report, online orders have finally surpassed in-store purchases. The study, conducted by ComScore and...
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Tech Is 4th On The List For Father’s Day Gifts
Electronics are the fourth most popular gift for Father’s Day 2016 a new consumer survey shows, with the category edging up 2 percent in...
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Sears Slips To Third Place On Top 50 Major Appliance Retailers Ranking
Ongoing structural and strategic challenges at Sears are taking a greater toll on the retailer’s core appliance business.
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Drones Soaring At Retail: NPD
Drones are skyrocketing at retail. Sales of the high-flying devices for the trailing 12 months through April 2016 have soared 224 percent vs. the...
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Detachables To Boost Tablet Growth Starting 2018: IDC
Worldwide tablet shipments will drop in 2016 for the second consecutive year and will continue falling until 2018, when a “slight rebound” driven by...
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Mobile Data Usage Will Explode In Next 5 Years Thanks To Faster Network Speeds: Ericsson
Think your cellular plan has enough data? Think again. Video usage will drive average data consumption of smartphones in North America to 22GB/month in...
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Tablets Among Top 5 Father’s Day Faves
Wanna make Dad happy on Father’s Day? Give him a tablet. Or a vacation. Or tickets to a sporting event. The latter two were...
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T-Mobile & Sprint See Higher Customer Satisfaction
T-Mobile and Sprint made big gains in customer satisfaction in the past year, while Apple eased past Samsung in consumer handset satisfaction, the University...
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Women Drain Cellphone Batteries Faster Than Men
Women in the U.S. use their smartphones more than men, and premium-phone owners use their devices more than owners of entry-level phones, causing them...
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Smart-Home Apps Fail To Live Up To Expectations
Smart-home apps available from installing service providers and cable companies are held in higher regard by consumers than the apps that come with DIY...
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Almost Half Of Households To Have 4K TV In 4 Years
North American household penetration of 4K Ultra HD TVs will jump from 5 percent in 2015 to 48 percent in 2020, driven by U.S....
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Amazon Takes Bite Out Of Apple In Tablet/Computer Customer Experience
Amazon beat Apple for the second consecutive year in offering the best customer experience among tablet and computers makers in the U.S., the latest...
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Amazon Passes Walmart As No. 2 In Electronics
Amazon has become the second-largest retailer of consumer electronics in the world, behind only Best Buy.
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Life On The Top 100: What A Difference A Decade Makes
The CE retail world was a very different place just 10 years ago. The housing market was hot; TVs could still command some margin;...
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2016 Top 100 CE Retailers Report: Gone But Not Forgotten
Unfortunately, life in the fast lane that is the TWICE Top 100 leaves a certain amount of wreckage in its wake. Gone from this...
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Methodology: What Is A CE Product?
As defined by the Consumer Technology Association, here is a breakdown of what constitutes a consumer electronics product and what was included in the...
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TWICE Top 100 CE Retailers Report: Sales Up 4.3%
CE sell-through for the 100 largest tech retailers in the land rose 4.3 percent last year, to a record $136 billion, which is a...
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VR Headset Demand On The Rise
Two percent of broadband-equipped U.S. households, or 2.3 million households in all, already own a virtual reality headset, and 5 percent of broadband households...
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Fitbit Still On Top But Losing Share To Apple
Global wearable-device shipments, including basic wearables and smart watches, rose more than 67 percent in the first quarter to 19.7 million units, with Fitbit...
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Electronics/Appliance Retail Sales Slip 2% In April: Feds
April sell-through for CE and appliance dealers was down 2 percent year over year, the U.S. Census Bureau reported. The agency’s monthly retail sales...
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CES Asia: What Tech Suppliers Need To Know To Sell Into China, APAC
U.S. tech suppliers eyeing the five largest markets in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region will find big differences in what consumers buy, why they buy,...
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Independent Dealers ‘Overwhelmed’ By Regulation: NRF Poll
A survey of independents by the National Retail Federation (NRF) confirms what dealers and buying groups have been saying for years: Small businesses are...
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America Has Voted (Not For President Silly, Streaming Video!)
Americans have cast their votes, not at the ballot box but at the set-top box, and TWICE has declared a winner: streaming video. According...
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Millennial Women Giving Retailers The Brush Off
Female millennials are giving traditional retailers the cold shoulder. According to a survey by Wolfe Research, that group’s lifestyle and shopping choices don’t bode...
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Smart Clothing, Body Sensor Shipments To Rise Rapidly Through 2021: Study
The market for smart clothing and body sensors is developing rapidly, with a proliferation of form factors and a high level of innovation in...
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CTA: Installed Home Tech Helps Builders Rebuild Bottom Line
More home builders said installed smart-home technology is driving up their revenues, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) found in its 14th annual builder survey....
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March Came In Like A Lion For Major Appliances: AHAM
Factory shipments of major appliances were up nearly 7 percent in March, ending the first quarter of 2016 on a high note. Driving the...
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It’s True: Amazon Has The Best Pricing For Electronics
Sorry Walmart: Amazon offers the best deals for electronics. Lowe’s, meanwhile, bests The Home Depot in major appliances. That’s according to recent findings...
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Tech Shoppers Are A Pain In The Assets: Report
Tech shoppers are among the stingiest consumers when it comes to repeat business. According to a new study by Stitch Labs, return customers typically...
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March Sales Slip For Electronics/Appliance Stores
Sales for electronics and appliance dealers decreased 2.1 percent year over year in March, to about $8.5 billion, and were flat from February, the...
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Security Cameras Lead Smart-Home Adoption
Networked surveillance cameras are leading the adoption of smart-home technology, Parks Associates said in releasing consumer-survey results during ISC West. Nine percent of U.S....
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Game-Console Penetration To Fall Below 50% By 2019
The number of broadband-connected households with a game console will fall to less than 50 percent by 2019 from today’s 58 percent, thanks to...
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How Retailers Stack Up On EMV Smart Card Compliance
By now, all retailers theoretically should have upgraded their checkout terminals to accept the newest high-tech plastic. To review, the latest generation of credit...
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Music Streaming, Vinyl Up; Downloads Falter In 2015
Online music streaming accounted for the largest share of U.S. music-industry revenues for the first time in 2015, nudging ahead of downloads, the Recording...
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Core Appliance Categories Up 12% In February: AHAM
Factory shipments of the six major white-goods categories rose 11.7 percent in February, to about 3.1 million units, according to the Association of Home...
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Dealer Sales Dip In February
February sales slipped 3.2 percent year over year for CE and appliance dealers, the U.S. Census Bureau reported. According to the agency’s monthly sales...
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4K TV Sales Shine As Overall TV Sales Slip In North America
Flat-panel TV shipments in North America grew 2 percent in units in the fourth quarter of 2015, but full-year 2015 sales nonetheless fell 1...
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Why North American Smartphone Growth Is Slowing
North American smartphone sales grew at a faster pace than global sales in 2015, but North American unit and dollar sales went south in...
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Unlocked Smartphone Market Keeps On Growing
U.S. unlocked smartphone shipments grew 140 percent in the U.S. to a record 14.6 million units in 2015, and sales will grow another 58...
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110 Million iPhones In Use In U.S.
A new study reveals that there are at least 110 million iPhones operating [n the U.S., with almost three quarters of them iPhone 6...