It’s time to swap out your winter wardrobe for new spring styles – and for many of us, personalizing our smartphone is as much fun as picking out the right handbag.
For the fashion-forward, look no further. Cynthia Vincent, one of the world’s top fashion designers, is launching an exclusive collection of accessories for smartphones, tablets and laptops at Best Buy.
Her accessories sporting colorful, tribal patterns are available on BestBuy.com now and will arrive in Best Buy stores on April 12.
To strengthen its position as Canada’s leading provider of consumer electronics products, services and solutions, Best Buy Canada, a subsidiary of Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) – which owns and operates both Best Buy and Future Shop stores – today announced it is consolidating the Future Shop and Best Buy stores and websites under the Best Buy brand and unveiled an ambitious plan to build a leading multi-channel customer experience.
Best Buy Canada also announced today it has reviewed its real estate footprint to address the fact that a significant number of its Future Shop and Best Buy stores are located adjacent to each other, often in the same parking lot.
Best Buy was among the contributors named by the White House yesterday committing to a $240 million effort to prepare students to excel in the fields of science and technology.
Best Buy is teaming up with FIRST, a youth science and technology education nonprofit, to help low-income teens around the United States compete in robotics competitions. The Best Buy Foundation is providing financial support to some 20 VISTA members who will teach robotics to teens at up to 10 locations, including Best Buy Teen Tech Centers.
Note: This story has been updated.
Over the past several years, there has been heightened awareness about potentially hazardous chemicals in products. Consumers have become increasingly aware of what they put on their skin, handle on a daily basis and store in their homes. Some consumer electronics contain chemicals necessary to protect against immediate safety concerns like fire hazards. At Best Buy, we’re actively working to protect our consumers through safer alternatives or by eliminating potentially harmful chemicals.
With that in mind, we’re making improvements to our private label products.
The room at the Arlington Hills Community Center library in St. Paul, Minnesota, was silent Wednesday while teens used tablets to learn computer coding on the popular game Angry Birds.
Determined fingers dragged and dropped parts of code, and strategically placed them in the right order to move on to next level.
“I completed puzzle eight!” one girl yelled out after finishing a tough round of code.
More than 3,000 schools and libraries across the country celebrated Teen Tech WeekTM, engaging in activities such as the coding game, provided by the nonprofit Code.org
It’s nearly time to start dancing.
With the 2015 NCAA men’s basketball tournament just days ahead, Best Buy helps you enjoy the games whether you’re on the couch, at your local watering hole, at work or school or on the go. In fact, our own research confirmed that more than 20 percent of all March Madness fans intend to watch the tournament from multiple screens this year.
Check out the following can’t-fail game plan, and start by finding out how to make your TV a Smart TV with a this quick video.
If you’re an Android phone user, prepare for more options this spring when two of the most popular brands launch new devices.
This week Samsung announced the new Samsung Galaxy S 6 and Galaxy S 6 Edge, and HTC unveiled the new HTC One M9 at the Mobile World Congress wireless show. The new phones will arrive at Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile store beginning in April and pre-registration is available now for the new Samsung phones.
Get the most of your new mobile
If you have been waiting to buy a new Samsung or HTC phone, prepare for a different purchase experience than in years past.
Special Dividend of $0.51 per Share or Approximately $180 Million
21% Increase in Quarterly Dividend to $0.23 per Share
$1 Billion in Share Repurchases over Three Years
MINNEAPOLIS — March 3, 2015 — Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) today announced that its Board of Directors authorized a plan to return excess capital to shareholders as follows:
Non-GAAP Diluted EPS from Continuing Operations of $1.48
GAAP Diluted EPS from Continuing Operations of $1.47
Annualized Renew Blue Cost Reductions Reach $1.02 billion
MINNEAPOLIS — March 3, 2015 — Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) today announced results for the fourth quarter (“Q4 FY15”) and year ended January 31, 2015 (“FY15”), as compared to the fourth quarter (“Q4 FY14”) and year ended February 1, 2014 (“FY14”). The company today also announced that on February 13, 2015, it completed the sale of its Five Star business in China, which was classified as held for sale as of January 31, 2015, and is reporting the Five Star results in discontinued operations.
Photos: Courtesy of St. Jude
This past holiday, Mary Collett’s Best Buy mobile store in Odessa, Texas, was a company-wide leader in contributing to the St. Jude Thanks and Giving® campaign.
On Wednesday, she got to see first-hand all the good that money can do at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®.
“Until you visit St. Jude, you don’t really grasp the immenseness of it all,” she said during the tour of the Memphis-based hospital. “There are so many staff members.
We transitioned the stores from high wattage, high-bay metal halide fixtures (think old gymnasium lights) to more efficient, lower wattage fluorescent fixtures. It reduced our lighting energy usage by nearly half – the equivalent of removing more than 12,000 households from the grid. And it’s saving the company money.
This was a simple change that could be scaled across the chain, creating big results. It’s getting us much closer to our goal of reducing carbon emissions by 20 percent by 2020.
Flu season is overstaying its welcome this winter, and the CDC can prove it.
Your mobile phone, that thing that’s probably attached to your hand most of the day, is a magnet for germs, and we’ve been getting questions from customers on the best way to keep it clean.
Our Geek Squad Agents have answers. See what they say to four frequently asked questions about mobile device hygiene.
1. What’s the safest way to disinfect (clean and kill germs) most mobile phones?