Microsoft has announced that the Lenovo Yoga 11S hybrid PC, running on Windows 8, will go on sale June 23 at Best Buy, with pre-orders for the device beginning today starting at $799. More...
Best Buy is following Yahoo's lead in requiring users to show up to the office, thus eliminating the telecommuting option. Is this a sound business practice or a desperate move by the business? More...
Best Buy will begin offering a $100 discount on all of the Windows 8 touchscreen PCs it sells for two weeks beginning Sunday in an effort to boost sales of those products. More...
Even though the 128 GB Microsoft Surface Pro tablet is in short supply at the moment, it still shows up in fourth place in online tablet sales on Best Buy's website. More...
A quick check of Microsoft Stores' retail locations indicated that the 128 GB version of the Surface Pro tablet is still unavailable but a new shipment may be coming in Tuesday or Wednesday. More...
Panos Panay, the leader of the Surface tablet team, said during a Twitter chat that Microsoft will be shipping more units of the 128 GB version of the Surface Pro to select stores by Saturday. More...
Microsoft is now officially selling the Surface Pro tablet in the US and Canada on the Microsoftstore.com site, while the NYC Best Buy Union Square store started selling the tablet as well. More...
Despite a blizzard that will hit New York City today, the Best Buy store in the city's Union Square location still plans to sell Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet at midnight tonight as planned. More...
The Windows 8 Pro version of Microsoft's Surface tablet has started to go on display in some US retail stores, with sales of the new device set to begin on February 9th. More...
Microsoft will hold a low key launch event for its upcoming Windows 8 Pro version of the Surface tablet on February 9th in New York City, the day before the tablet officially goes on sale. More...
Best Buy will begin to sell Microsoft's Surface tablet with Windows RT installed on its website beginning today and will sell the tablet in some of its retail stores Sunday. More...
In a tale of holiday cheer, Best Buy has allowed a person who bought one iPad from the retailer to keep four others sent to that person by mistake, perhaps to send to family, friends or a charity. More...
An executive at Best Buy says that supply issues have limited the number of Windows 8 tablets and hybrid that the retailer can sell, but he also admitted to turning down other Windows 8 hybrids. More...
There are quite a few Windows 8 related deals today for Cyber Monday 2012, and we have hit the Internet to find just a few of the software and hardware sales deals. More...
New data shows that Thanksgiving Day was a busy one for online retail stores, with one report claiming that traffic to retail websites increased by 71 percent compared to 2011. More...
A man who was frustrated about his Nokia Lumia 920 order getting canceled twice by Best Buy emailed Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and as a result he will get his phone, with "extras". More...
It's not often you come across a brand new phone for good money, but HTC's 8X handsets could be as little as $79 through Best Buy and eBay (excluding the contract), which we'll admit is enticing. More...
Office Max's Black Friday 2012 ad reveals that it will sell the boxed upgrade copy of Windows 8 Pro for just $29.99 on that major shopping day, but there's a big catch. More...
Microsoft has created a fictional person, "Allison Brown", for hands-on demos of Windows 8 at retail stores, complete with made up emails, contacts and pictures. More...
Just a couple of days after going on sale, Nokia's Lumia 920 pre-order stock is sold out on Best Buy's website....although whispers claim that only a limited number of the handsets were available. More...
After only a day Best Buy has stopped taking Lumia 920 pre-orders. Has the phone already sold out? Or maybe it wasn't supposed to be listed in the first place. We're not quite sure what to make of it More...
Best Buy has started taking pre-orders for the new Windows Phone 8 flagship phones. The Lumia 920 is available in 4 different colors including cyan, while the HTC 8X is only available in purple. More...
Beleagured electronics giant Best Buy is turning to Android to pull them out of their slump, and is planning to release their own 9.7 inch tablet, the Insignia Flex, next month for around $250. More...
According to a leaked image HTC's flaghship Windows Phone device, the 8X will be available for preorder from Best Buy on October 21st. No price or carriers have been oficially announced yet. More...
An interesting reference to "Live Apps" has appeared in a Best Buy retail display banner for Windows Phone 8, although we're not sure exactly what it's referring to. More...
A number of Best Buy store locations are displaying working versions of laptops, tablets and all-in-one PCs running on Windows 8, although no one can actually buy them yet. More...
Best Buy founder Richard Schulze has submitted a proposal to purchase outstanding Best Buy stock for $24 to $26, a significant premium for shares that are currently trading for $17.64. More...
Retailer Best Buy has confirmed it will be making plans to lay off a total of 2,400 team members. That number included lay offs of 600 of its Geek Squad support technicians. More...
Google has confirmed that it has hired a number of people labeled "Chrome Specialists" that will try to sell Chrome-based notebooks in Best Buy's retail stores. More...
The Wall Street Journal thinks that Best Buy founder Richard Schulze's abrupt resignation from the company's board could be part of a plan to buy-out the company and take it private again. More...
Best Buy and GameStop are now offering the Xbox 360 game console, with the Kinect add-on and a 4 GB hard drive for $99 up-front and a two year subscription to Xbox Live Gold at $14.99 a month. More...
Richard Schulze, founder and chairman of Best Buy, has resigned early, following an investigation's verdict that he was aware of former CEO Brian Dunn's inappropriate relationship with an employee. More...
Microsoft has announced a revival of its new PC deal for college students, where starting on May 20th a PC that's priced at $699 or higher will be able to get them a free 4 GB Xbox 360 game console. More...
The founder and chairman of Best Buy's board of directors, Richard Schulze, has resigned following an independent investigation which revealed Schulze knew of former CEO Brian Dunn's misconduct. More...
Best Buy has released a list of the 50 retail stores in the US it plans to close. A few of the locations have shut down already; the rest will close by sometime this summer. More...
Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn resigned unexpectedly today and later in the day the company said it was conducting an investigation into Dunn's "personal conduct" before he stepped down. More...
Microsoft and Best Buy are teaming up to host numerous Windows Phone events for IT professionals and developers across the US, with a chance to win a Lumia 900. More...
Best Buy is setting up displays in at least some of its stores that claim it will launch Blizzard's long awaited PC action-RPG sequel Diablo 3 on February 1, complete with digital countdown clock. More...
Best Buy has apologized for canceling some orders on its web site this week that were made in November and December, saying there was an "unacceptable delay" for confirming those orders. More...
The Microsoft Store is offering last minute holiday shoppers a $100 gift card if they purchase an Xbox 360 game console bundled with the Kinect motion gesture device. Best Buy has a similar offer. More...
Best Buy has issued a recall of one of the product models of the Rocketfish iPhone 3G/3GS battery case due to a number of reports of that model overheating while the case was being charged. More...
Retailer Best Buy says it sold out of its supply of the Blackberry Playbook tablet but says it will get more in the future, contradicting earlier online reports that Best Buy was canceling orders. More...
The Black Friday sales in retail stores are ending, but the online-only Cyber Monday sales have started ahead of time for a number of retailers, including Amazon and Best Buy. More...
Today we try to find a number of good Black Friday 2011 sales that are centered on the PC hardware and software front, including some deals that are currently live More...
A man was arrested on Tuesday in Aurora, Colorado after he threatenen to blow up the local Best Buy store after he was told that copies of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 were sold out. More...
After only a year, the UK branch of Best Buy is to close. The company cites 'unprofitable operation', and the British-based Carphone Warehouse intends to close all eleven branches. More...
Two major retailers (Walmart and Best Buy) are offering some pre-Black Friday sales deals on Microsoft's Xbox 360 console with the Kinect controller included. These sales will end today. More...
Best Buy has announced it will offer customers a chance to get one of the final HP TouchPad tablets while supplies last...but there's a rather big catch attached to the deal. More...
Microsoft has launched a new TV advertising campaign that combines several of its products, including Windows 7, Windows Phone, Microsoft Office and the Xbox 360 with its Kinect controller. More...
Best Buy has unveiled and confirmed plans to sell the music streaming service Napster to fellow music streaming service Rhapsody. More...