Walmart Cuts Prices For Back-To-School, Launches Price-Match Tool Bentonville, Ark. — Walmart announced a series of back-to-school promotions on more 400 in-store and online items, and formally debuted an online Savings Catcher tool that will provide gift cards for after-the-fact pricing differences.More »
hhgregg's Fiscal Q1 Report Disappoints Indianapolis — hhgregg had a disappointing fiscal first quarter with a deeper net loss, a 10 percent drop in net sales and a similar loss in comp-store sales. More »
Sony Posts $261M Net Profit In Q1 Tokyo — The successful launch of Sony's PS4 game console and the box-office smash "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" helped Sony post a surprise first-quarter profit Thursday. More »
Panasonic Posts Higher Sales, Operating Profit Osaka, Japan – Panasonic reported higher sales and operating profit in its fiscal first quarter, but lower net profit, compared with last year's opening quarter. More »
T-Mobile Speeding Up Network Bellevue, Wash. – T-Mobile launched nationwide Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and began rolling out 700MHz-band LTE equipment in base stations to increase data speed, capacity and coverage, the company announced. More »
T-Mobile Net Adds Exceed 1 Million For 5th Consecutive Quarter Bellevue, Wash. — T-Mobile posted its fifth consecutive quarter of more than 1 million net subscriber additions, an 8 percent revenue gain, a return to operating income, and its first net income after four quarters of losses. More »
Motorola Makes Management Changes Chicago — Rick Osterloh, promoted to president/COO of Motorola Mobility earlier this year, is making major management changes. More »
Vizio Adds First Under-TV Speaker Irvine, Calif. – Vizio priced its first under-TV speaker system at a suggested $249 and rolled it out to a variety of online retailers. More »
Drobo Unveils Mini Portable SSD Drive San Francisco — Connected Data introduced this week the Drobo Mini with Solid State Disk (SSD) drive providing what the company calls the first portable, hot-swappable SSD solution with RAID data protection. More »
T-Mobile Expands Low-Price LTE Smartphone Selection Bellevue, Wash. – T-Mobile is building up its selection of low-price LTE smartphones with today's availability of the Samsung Galaxy Avant at an unsubsidized $216, or $9/month for 24 months. More »
Kantar: Android Share Up Again In U.S. London — The Android operating system increased its share of U.S. smartphones sold in the second quarter on a sequential and year-over-year basis, a Kantar Worldpanel ComTech survey found. More »