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Best Buy quits Europe, sells JV stake back to Carphone Warehouse for $775M
Best Buy is getting out of the European market a little less than five years after announcing a European joint venture with retailer Carphone Warehouse, known as CPW. Best Buy will sell its 50 percent stake in the JV back to CPW for around $775 million.
T-Mobile confirms weekend disruption, cites strong demand
T-Mobile USA acknowledged that its website and in-store computer systems were briefly out of commission this past Saturday, and the carrier cited demand from customers as the culprit, though it did not provide a specific explanation of what caused the system failures.
LG plans up to 600 new retail stores to goose smartphone sales
LG Electronics plans to increase the number of its branded retail stores in emerging markets this year as part of an effort to boost its smartphone sales and market share amid intensifying competition.
Samsung to open 1,400 mini-stores within Best Buys, challenging Apple
Samsung Electronics is throwing down the gauntlet to Apple and every other electronics and smartphone maker by partnering with Best Buy to open 1,400 "Samsung Experience Shops" within Best Buy locations nationwide. The store-within-a-store concept will allow Samsung to highlight its wares and demonstrate how its smartphone, tablets, TVs, laptops, cameras and other connected devices interact.
RadioShack ends mobile retail pact with Target
RadioShack ended its mobile retail relationship with Target, saying the two companies could not agree to terms that would have created more profit for both parties.
Sprint launches mobile data MVNO aimed at hospitality, retail industries
Sprint Nextel is launching a new service that will allow hotels, retailers and other businesses to become mobile broadband MVNOs of its CDMA network and Clearwire's mobile WiMAX network.
RadioShack CEO Gooch departs amid retail struggles
RadioShack said CEO Jim Gooch stepped down from the company after 16 months at the helm as the ailing retailer struggles to find its identity in wireless and in a changing retail landscape.
Sprint's Virgin Mobile reportedly given small iPhone marketing window
Sprint Nextel's Virgin Mobile brand has started a full-throated marketing effort for its prepaid version of Apple's iPhone--but will soon need to quiet the campaign, according to a Dow Jones Newswires report.
Furchtgott-Roth: Why Verizon's cross-marketing arrangements with the cable companies won't work
Verizon and various cable companies may join a long line of American companies that considered cross-marketing arrangements and may even have attempted cross-marketing arrangements. But ultimately, they, too, will discover that cross-marketing arrangements do not easily work.
C Spire, Dish Network ink retail partnership
C Spire Wireless and Dish Network said they will partner to promote TV Everywhere and DVR products in the wireless carrier's retail locations. The deal is the latest example of wireless carriers
