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Best Buy’s huge July Fourth sale on home appliances is here a week early, will help you save up to 40%
It can be hard figuring out the best time to upgrade appliances. Wait too long and you risk your refrigerator or washing machine crapping out in the middle of a hectic week, sending you to the store scrambling for a new one that’s full price.
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Highfive’s video conferencing platform is now available through Ingram Micro and at Best Buy
Highfive, a Redwood City-based startup, offers businesses an integrated video conferencing service through its own custom meeting room hardware. While Highfive has been quite successful in selling its service and hardware online, the company today announced that it is adding Best Buy and Ingram Micro as distribution partners in an effort to expand its reach to […]
View More Highfive’s video conferencing platform is now available through Ingram Micro and at Best BuyBest Buy is having a 24-hour online flash sale on must-have tech items like MacBooks, Apple Watches, and more
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MacBooks. iPads. HP laptops. HDTVs. Vacuums. Apple Watches. Xbox and Nintendo Switch games.
What do all of those things have in common? They are massively marked down at Best Buy for Monday, April 30.
Best Buy is having a 24-hour online only flash sale today, and that’s the sale lineup. (Cue heart eye emoji.) We don’t know what this random Black Friday-ish sale is for, but we’re not complaining.
And this isn’t just some little $10 off sale: We’re talking $200 off here, free Xbox games there — Best Buy is even offering up to $500 off select MacBook models including the MacBook Pro. We probably don’t have to tell you this, but getting a brand new MacBook for under a grand is the next best thing to a miracle. Read more…
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View More Best Buy is having a 24-hour online flash sale on must-have tech items like MacBooks, Apple Watches, and moreGoPro launches Trade-Up program to swap old cameras for discounts
GoPro is willing to take that old digital camera stuffed in your junk drawer even if it’s a GoPro. Through a program called Trade-Up, the camera company will discount the GoPro H6 Black $50 and Fusion $100 when buyers trade in any digital camera. The company tried this last year for 60 days, but as […]
View More GoPro launches Trade-Up program to swap old cameras for discountsRivals Amazon and Best Buy partner to sell new smart TVs
Retail hell may have just frozen over.
Amazon has entered a new partnership, according to Variety, with its longtime rival Best Buy in order to encourage more customers to use Fire TV products.
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Amazon taps Best Buy to begin selling its smart TVs with Alexa
Amazon is looking to sell its Fire TV Edition smart televisions in a big box store, but thankfully it’s not Whole Foods. Instead, Amazon will be tapping a retailer whose life it has made incredibly difficult over the years, Best Buy, to begin selling smart televisions with its Fire TV capabilities baked in. The displays […]
View More Amazon taps Best Buy to begin selling its smart TVs with AlexaBest Buy just screwed over Huawei big time
Poor Huawei is getting screwed over left and right in the U.S.
First, AT&T reportedly pulled out of a carrier partnership to sell the Chinese tech giant’s flagship Mate 10 Pro Android phone. Then, the top U.S. intelligence agencies (CIA, FBI, and…
Huawei’s U.S. plans hit major setback as Best Buy said to stop sales
Huawei can’t catch a break in the States. Just at the company was set to announce a big carrier deal at CES, AT&T reportedly switch gears last minute. Now, a week before the company is set reveal its next big flagship at an event in Paris, Best Buy is reportedly planning to stop sales of […]
View More Huawei’s U.S. plans hit major setback as Best Buy said to stop salesTurns out that Geek Squad has been in the FBI’s pocket for a decade
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Who needs probable cause when you have geeks?
That appears to be the thinking of the FBI, which has been working with Best Buy’s computer repair service Geek Squad for at least a decade. And we’re not talking about geeks fixing Bureau computers.
Instead, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the law enforcement agency has paid Geek Squad employees to act as informants and report potentially illegal content found on customers’ computers. What’s more, in at least one case it appeared that an employee may have proactively searched a computer for suspicious content — as opposed to just reporting what he or she inadvertently stumbled across. Read more…
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