BEST BUY

With most major retailers hiring more holiday help this year, analysts look to Thursday's monthly sales report with modest optimism.

Third-party iPhone 5 vendors like Radio Shack are receiving fewer iPhone 5s than Apple's own 249 U.S. retail stores.

After winning US$1 million in damages against Samsung in a hard-fought case late August, Cupertino giant Apple appears to be asking for additional $707 million in damages in a motion filed late Friday, ITWorld reported.

A judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission found that Apple hadn?t violated any of Samsung?s patent rights for products designed into the iPhone and iPad product lines. Last month, a jury in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., determined Samsung had infringed upon Apple?s patents and awarded the Cupertino, Calif., company $1.05 billion in compensation.

Like all bad addictions, I’ve come to realize joy and utility no longer mask the negatives of Apple's intrusion into my life. My wallet, my brain and the people around me have suffered as a result of my dealings with the Cupertino giant. So I’m calling it quits. Apple, this thing of ours? It's over.

Hubert Joly, the new CEO of Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY), is going to spend his first week on the job pulling the old king-as-commoner routine, donning the company's uniform and working a few of the showrooms.

While Samsung Electronics lost out to Apple in the high profile patent trial, wherein the U.S. court ordered the former to pay $1.05 billion for patent infringements, experts aver that the ongoing partnership among the two companies for supplying components will hold good.

In an epic $1.05 billion verdict Friday in the widely watched intellectual-property case between Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Korea: 005930), a jury in California decided for Apple and against Samsung on six of seven patent-infringement claims centered on mobile devices.

According to CNN Money, Best Buy has been having difficulty with founder Richard Schulze regarding his attempts at buying out the company’s remaining shares.

As technology industry eagerly waits to hear the verdict of U.S. Federal District Court in Apple (AAPL), Samsung (005930) patent tussle a South Korean Court ruled Friday that both the firms were guilty of patent infringement and banned sales of Apple and Samsung smartphones and tablets.

Market watchers are writing the obituary for struggling big box electronics retailer Best Buy Co. (NYSE:BBY), whose share price plunged to a nearly four-year low on Tuesday, even as stakeholders waited to see if the new CEO can live up to his reputation.

Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY) is not having a good week.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said Monday afternoon that it lowered its corporate credit rating and other ratings on Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) from "BBB-" to "BB+," or junk status.

Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) founder Richard Schulze, who stepped down as chairman this year, offered to take the troubled electronics retailer private at $24 to $26 a share?

Is Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) about to lose its stock exchange ticker symbol and become a private company? Some traders think it's imminent.

Jury selection is due to begin on Monday in the United States in a high stakes patent battle between Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS), the culmination of over a year of pretrial jousting with billions of dollars in the balance.

According to court documents, submitted by Samsung as part of its legal battle against rival Apple, the South Korean tech giant is planning at least two potential Windows Phone 8 devices.

In the wake of the release of Samsung's healthy financial results for the second quarter of 2012, research firm IDC let out a new report saying that the South Korean tech giant's smartphone division is considerably ahead of its arch rival Apple and the rest of the competition.

Samsung Electronics Co, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, reported a second quarter net income of 5.19 trillion won ($4.4 billion), up from 3.51 trillion won in the same period earlier year, aided by sales of Galaxy smartphones.

Much to everyone's astonishment, an owner of the new Samsung Galaxy S3 in Ireland reported late last month that his brand new phone exploded with an audible bang. According to Samsung, it was not the phone but an external energy source that should be blamed for the explosion.

According to a latest report, Samsung is going to unveil the Galaxy Note 2 in August With features including a 5.5-inch display, 12MP camera and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.