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Best Buy Offers Music Cloud
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 23, 2011  | 
Cloud-based storage is clearly the trend of the year. Best Buy is the latest company to offer a cloud music player, joining Amazon, Apple, and Google.

The Best Buy Music Cloud uses a PC or Mac application which scans your iTunes library (though this is not specifically an Apple-related service). Then it accepts music uploads and streams them to computers or mobile devices, the latter including iOS, Android, or BlackBerry. You can upload playlists as well as music files.

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Best Buy on Best Behavior
SV Staff  |  Nov 14, 2008  | 
Instead of sitting back and gloating as it watches its biggest competitor flounder, Best Buy is doing whatever it can to prevent a trip down the same  path. Best Buy's President and COO Brian Dunn stated that "In 42 years of...
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Best Buy Recalls LCD TVs
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 08, 2009  | 
Best Buy is voluntarily recalling one model of its house-brand Insignia LCD TV, the 26-inch IS-LCDTV26, 13,300 of which were sold from August 2005 through June 2006.
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Best Buy Says Go Blu, Young Man
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 12, 2008  | 
Blu-ray is Best Buy's "preferred format," the megachain said yesterday in a press release. Though HD DVD won't disappear from the shelves, the retailer will "prominently showcase" BD hard- and software in both brick-and-mortar and virtual stores.
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Best Buy Selects Mass Fidelity for New Tech Startup Retail Platform
SV Staff  |  Jan 19, 2017  | 
Canadian-based Mass Fidelity today announced that Best Buy has selected its products for inclusion in a new retail program focusing on innovative start-up companies.
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Best Buy Stuffs Restocking Fee
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 20, 2010  | 
Attention, stocking stuffers: Best Buy is stuffing its restocking fee. The elimination of the 15 percent fee for returned merchandise is a small victory for consumers as well as a boon to holiday shoppers who might be more willing to take chances.
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Best Buy Sways Klipsch Speaker Design
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 13, 2008  | 
Best Buy employees and customers had a major influence on some new Klipsch speakers, the Icon V Series. In fact, they helped design the speakers.
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Best Buy Tests Airport Kiosks
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 18, 2008  | 
Best Buy Express is the name of a program that will put CE retail kiosks in airports. If you're waiting for a plane, would you like to buy a digital camera? Cell phone? Flash drive? Music player? Headphones, speakers, gaming portables? Surely a travel adapter or charger!
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Best Buy to Drop CDs
SV Staff  |  Feb 05, 2018  | 
If you’ve spent any time in a Best Buy store in recent years you’ve no doubt noticed the incredible shrinking music section, which has gone from multiple disc-filled aisles to a small section devoted to new releases and a limited selection of top selling classic albums.
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Best Buy to Launch Roku Ready Budget 4K TVs
SV Staff  |  Mar 15, 2016  | 
If you’re interested in an inexpensive 4K/Ultra HD (UHD) TV, you might want to drop by your local Best Buy in a few weeks. The national chain plans to roll out three 4K models featuring onboard Roku streaming capability in early April.
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Best Buy to Move Gateway Gear
HT Staff  |  Jun 14, 2004  | 
There may be some good deals ahead for value-seeking shoppers at Best Buy stores.
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Best Buy to Stock Vinyl
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 04, 2009  | 
The LP has always had friends in high places. Apparently that includes someone at Best Buy, which is considering adding vinyl to all 1020 of its brick-and-mortar stores.
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Best Buy Will Stop Selling Physical Discs in 2024
Bob Ankosko  |  Oct 16, 2023  | 
As if we needed more evidence that the end of physical media is coming, Best Buy has confirmed that it will stop selling DVDs and Blu-ray Discs both in-store and online in early 2024.
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Best Buy's Black Friday VIP Contest
SV Staff  |  Oct 29, 2008  | 
I have a confession to make: I have never participated in Black Friday madness. Nope. Never have, and hopefully, never will.Instead, I always plan a really, really long bike ride to burn off the sweet potatoes with marshmallows. However, my...
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Best Buy's Blus Get Netflix
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 23, 2009  | 
Netflix movie streaming is getting into Best Buy's Insignia-brand Blu-ray players.
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