BEST BUY

Black Friday is still a day away, but it's already getting bargain buyers excited. Best Buy is offering a Hewlett-Packard laptop for a super low $197. Best Buy says this is the first-ever, value priced HP laptop it's ever offered.

Best Buy is offering this Black Friday what it calls, the first-ever, value priced HP laptop. In a very aggressive bid to lure more customers to its store, Best Buy announced low $197 price tag for a Hewlett-Packard laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit). The HP comes with a 15.6-inch screen and an Intel Celeron 900 processor.

Target, Kohl's, Best Buy and major retailers have unveiled their special deals for Black Friday 2009, according to Gottadeal.com, a self-called official Black Friday deal website.

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Best Buy plans to sell an iRex Technologies e-reader that links to the Barnes & Noble digital bookstore, the electronics retailer and e-reader maker said on Wednesday.

Regional appliance and electronics retailer hhgregg Inc said it will add 800 seasonal jobs at 117 of its stores to help cope with increased customer traffic during the holiday season.

Best Buy Co's quarterly profit missed estimates on Tuesday as sales of lower-margin products like notebook computers and promotional efforts to woo shoppers ate into the top U.S. consumer electronics chain's margins.

U.S. stocks were little changed on Tuesday after disappointing earnings from electronics retailer Best Buy and supermarket chain Kroger and stronger-than-expected retail sales and producer price data failed to move investors.

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Sony Corp will begin selling this month the cheapest digital book reader for the United States, heating up the competition with Amazon.com Inc in the small but fast-growing market for electronic readers.

Sony Corp will begin selling this month the cheapest digital book reader for the United States, taking rival Amazon.com Inc head-on in the small but fast-growing market for electronic readers.

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RadioShack Corp reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on lower costs and improved sales of netbooks, prepaid wireless handsets and digital televisions, and the retailer's shares rose 4 percent.

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