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- IRex's Hamilton Details Plans For Publishers; NewspaperDirect, News Stand, Storefronts
- For the last couple of years, Amazon’s Kindle has owned the market—a very small one, to be sure—when it comes to delivering subscriptions to U.S. e-readers. It’s also irked publishers with a 70-30 rev share in the retailer’s favor and by retaining control of customer relationships, sending them scurrying...
- External links 2009-10-19
- Best Buy Gets Stock Options As Part Of New Streaming Deal With CinemaNow
- Best Buy and Sonic Solutions, parent company of digital download service CinemaNow, have released more details about the on-demand content partnership they announced this summer. One of the more interesting tidbits is that Best Buy has acquired warrants that will allow it to buy an undisclosed amount of Sonic’s...
- External links 2009-11-03
- What Is a Results-Only Work Environment?
- A new management philosophy declares that giving employees complete control over their time is the best way to increase productivity in the workplace. How It Works As Ressler and Thompson put it in their book, “In a Results-Only Work Environment, people can do...
- Articles 2008-09-25
- Models for People Management: Best Buy, Google, GE, Semco
- A look at four models of people management — all radically different, all successful. General Electric: The Ruthless Meritocracy ...
- Articles 2008-09-26
- How to Get Results From Your Team
- Ten tips from the creators of the Results-Only Work Environment, from their book Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It. 1. Make meetings optional. Let people evaluate their need to participate. If they know they can make better use of ...
- Articles 2008-09-26
- Blowing Up Business As Usual
- At some companies, employees skip meetings, set their own schedules, and take unlimited vacation time. Surprise: They also get more done.There's no shortage of approaches to organizational and performance management — from balanced scorecard and total quality management to management by walking around and rightsizing, just for starters. One of...
- Articles 2008-09-26
- Wallstrip: Black Friday
- The Holiday Season: when Americans everywhere unite and reflect on how to get retailers in the black. Happy Thanksgiving Wallstrippers! Safe travels!
- Videos 2008-11-26
- Black Friday
- The Holiday Season: when Americans everywhere unite and reflect on how to get retailers in the black. Happy Thanksgiving Wallstrippers! Safe travels!
- Videos 2008-11-26
- Verizon, iRex Teaming Up On E-Reader; Will Launch At Best Buy
- Sprint (NYSE: S) has the Kindle. AT&T (NYSE: T) has Sony (NYSE: SNE) and still-to-launch PlasticLogic. Now Verizon (NYSE: VZ) gets the iRex DR800SG—and the wireless U.S. e-reader market gets a bit more crowded. The $399 touchscreen device from iRex Technologies, the spinoff of Royal Philips Electronics, will be...
- External links 2009-09-23
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- Best Buy to Install Google Mobile App, But Not For Droid, IPhone
- Beginning Nov. 9, sales associates for Best Buy Mobile will install Google Mobile App on all BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows Mobile, or Nokia S60 smartphones through the Walk Out Working program, a free in-store smartphone setup. The deal makes Best Buy the first retailer in the U.S. to distribute Google Mobile...
- News items 2009-11-07
- Best Buy Executive Moves Advance Its International Ambitions
- While executive moves at Best Buy are topped by the appointment of a new chief information officer, what the electronics retailer really is doing with the leadership reshuffle is strengthening its international division. As is the case in the United States, the company has slowed the pace...
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Best Buy Plans to Outrace Rivals on Electric Cycles
- One way Best Buy can differentiate itself from key competitors, particularly big, non-specialist rivals such as Wal-Mart, is by offering technology products and services beyond the range of what its competitors can practically fit into their operations. In that light, it isn’t surprising that Best Buy has...
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Sony and Best Buy Tag-Team for iPod Docks [Sony]
- Copy this whole post to another site You'd think if Sony was teaming up with Best Buy, it'd be for a cheaper line of stuff that looks cool to retake minds and hearts—nope. Their new Altus line does look cool though, for iPod docks, anyway. The Altus line is just...
- News items 2009-08-18
- Best Buy Takes iPhone Fight to Wal-Mart
- Best Buy isn’t going to let Wal-Mart grab its iPhone business without a fight as the two ratchet up a struggle for dominance in popular consumer electronics. Only a week after word came out that Wal-Mart would offer two popular iPhone at a $2 discount to the...
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- Best Buy Twitters an Extension of Service Strategy
- When Best Buy realigned its work force several weeks ago, even demoting some employees from supervisory to customer service roles with commensurate pay cuts, observers couldn’t help but wonder if the company could continue to rely on their enthusiasm in the aftermath. Apparently, the company still is...
- Blog posts 2009-07-19
- Best Buy Challenges GameStop with New Games for the Price of Old
- The Internet gaming community is abuzz over a deal spotted in a West Jordan, Utah Best Buy store that promises to match GameStop and Game Crazy prices on used video games with like charges for new products. Attributed to a forum member on the website cheapassgamer.com, word...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Best Buy to Deliver Streaming Movies via CinemaNow
- Best Buy will embed Sonic's Roxio CinemaNow technology on a number of devices, like web-connected TVs, portable media players, PCs, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes, and mobile phones. This will include a variety of manufacturers, Best Buy said, but the store did not reveal any specific companies at this time. The...
- News items 2009-11-03
- How Best Buy Slays the Turnover Beast
- Turnover at Best Buy fell eight percentage points to 60 percent last year, according to the company's recent earnings call. "The improvements in turnover were nationwide and at all levels ... and the most encouraging aspect of this progress is that these results came from specific, locally created strategies," said...
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Best Buy Goes Leaner As Customers Waver, Competitors Press
- Best Buy's finances took a hit in the third quarter, but the company also demonstrated that it understands the consumer and competitive landscapes have changed, and not necessarily in its favor. Operating income declined by a third, Best Buy slashed next year’s capital spending budget...
- Blog posts 2008-12-19
- Best Buy Reorganizes Stores to Face Wal-Mart, Costco and the Mass Market Threat
- Trying to determine just what Best Buy will accomplish with its store reorganization is difficult. The company is reluctant to definitively explain its actions and goals, substituting the mantra: We want to get employees out in front of customers. Now, certainly there it truth in that, but, in practice, its...
- Blog posts 2009-04-17
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