Nearly 500 employees spent part of last Friday filling care packages with snacks, speakers and drawings in an effort to lift the spirits of the men and women serving abroad who aren’t able to be home with friends and family during the holiday season.
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Best Buy has been awarded a prized position on the CDP Climate A List for our efforts to reduce carbon emissions in the past year.
The commendation puts Best Buy in the top 5 percent of thousands of companies that submit annual emissions data and climate management strategies to CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project).
We are in good company. Other corporate “A Listers” now include sustainability powerhouses and partners such as Apple, Google, LG, Microsoft, Samsung, Sony and Sprint.
The A List designation comes shortly after Best Buy set a new goal to reduce carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2020 and signed the American Business Act Pledge on Climate Change.
State and local officials joined Best Buy in celebrating the grand opening of the company’s new technology development center in Seattle on Thursday. The office, first announced in February, is focused on mobile development, cloud engineering and the omnichannel customer experience.
With the St. Jude Thanks and Giving® campaign underway now at Best Buy, the company continues its partnership in helping St. Jude find cures for children fighting cancer by accepting donations at more than 1,400 Best Buy store locations and on BestBuy.com.
Learn how to pull off these high-tech tricks for a high-scare Halloween.
It’s a partnership as Midwestern in its roots as hot dish and hockey skates.
Best Buy and Caribou Coffee have partnered to bring the great taste of Caribou Coffee right into your home with an exclusive line of home brewing equipment. You can choose from a variety of brewing and drinking options that combine the Caribou coffeeshop experience with the quality of Best Buy’s Insignia brand.
The set includes an 8-cup and 6-cup pour-over coffee maker, a 2.5-cup French Press, as well as clear double-wall mugs and a stainless kettle.
The first-ever Geek Squad Technology Hub will be staffed during the week by an Agent who will analyze tech device problems and educate teachers and students about technology.
The movie Back to the Future Part II sent Marty McFly, his girlfriend Jennifer and Doc Brown from 1985 to October 21, 2015. Now that their fictional future has arrived, let’s see which promised technology predictions came true. And a few that didn’t.
Zip up your auto-fit, self-drying jacket… The future is here.
HOVERBOARD
Unfortunately, hoverboards don’t actually exist… yet. But for tech that’s cool and floats like Marty’s levitating skateboard deck, check out drones. From small toys that roll across the floor, to quadcopters complete with gimbal-mounted 4K cameras and GPS, drones are here and getting better all the time.
Today we are proud that Best Buy is joining other leading U.S. companies in signing the American Business Act Pledge on Climate Change.
This is an historic moment for Best Buy. In our pledge, we committed to further advancing our efforts toward addressing this global challenge. Here’s what we said:
- We will reduce our own carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2020 from operational reductions and renewable sourcing. This science-based goal builds on our 2014 achievement of a 26 percent reduction in carbon emissions within our operations.
Autumn is a great time of year to take great pictures, and Best Buy photography experts have some easy tips to make you a pro, no matter what kind of camera you use.
There’s nothing like the feeling of a brand new smartphone with the newest technology at your fingertips (not to mention the bragging rights) – and the feeling is even better if you can get some money back for the outdated one.
The Surface Book is a powerful new laptop. The Surface Pro 4 tablet is the thinnest and fastest Surface Pro yet. The Band 2 is Microsoft’s latest wearable device.