CE Newswire 08.01.14

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Today's Top 3 Stories #1 Apple Closes $3B Beats Deal, Welcomes The Company 'To The Family'   Apple has officially closed its $3 billion deal to acquire Beats. (CNET) Why This Is Important: According to reports, some Beats employees won't make a full Cupertino transition because of personnel redundancy.  #2 Best Buy CEO Says Tablet Sales Are "Crashing," Hope for PCs   Re/code has landed in Minneapolis to talk to the folks at Best Buy — the last standing nationwide big-box, bricks-and-mortar consumer electronics retailer, with over 1,000 main stores and hundreds of smaller mobile device stores. (Re/Code) Why This Is Important: According to Joly, consumers have been not been motivated to replace their tablets, which have reached unprecedented penetration.  #3 Google's Retail Ambitions With Barges May Be Floating Away   Google may have wanted its infamous floating showrooms to grab the spotlight from Apple's popular retail stores, but it's a safe bet Apple CEO Tim Cook hasn't lost any sleep over the Google Barges. (CNET) Why This Is Important: Google is getting out of the barge business as its Maine location is officially being scrapped. Dreams of once challenging Apple Stores with these play and demonstration spaces have crashed as neither of the intended retail spaces ever came into fruition.     4. Judge Rules That Microsoft Must Turn Over Data Stored In Ireland (The New York Times) 5. Why The Crosswalk Buttons In Your City May Not Work (ABC) 6. Watch This Robot Learn To "Walk Off" An Injury (Tech Crunch) 7. Tesla Is Surging (Business Insider) 8. Your Definitive Guide To All The 'iPhone 6' Rumors (Huffington Post) 9. What's Holding Back 3D Printing From Fulfilling Its Promise? (ZDNet) 10. Iris Z-Wave Garage Door Controller (Wired) "What we've done is, we've made Best Buy the place where customers can discover, understand, these different ecosystems. There's these giant ecosystems: The Apple world, the Android/Samsung world, the Windows world. And so, for the customers, it's a very unique opportunity to see it in one place, and in the space of half an hour, to be able to talk to our various specialists, and touch, feel, experience these products." –  Hubert Joly, Best Buy CEO  Blog Post of The Day The Perks Of Being 'Somebody' Online By Nicole Lee The web was supposed to be the great equalizer. But, it turns out, the haves and have-nots exist online too. And they're separated by a mark of distinction: verification. More » Upcoming Events CTIA Super Mobility Week Sept. 9-11 Sands Expo and Convention Center Las Vegas www.supermobilityweek.com CEDIA Expo Sept. 9-13 Colorado Convention Center Denver www.cedia.net Azione Unlimited Fall Conference Oct. 8-10 Sheraton Austin Austin, Texas www.azioneunlimited.com PlugFest20 Oct. 19-24 Los Angeles http://ce.org Was this copy of CE Newswire forwarded to you? Start your own subscription by clicking here. TWICE Editorial Team Greg Tarr, Executive Editor Phone: (917) 281-4760 | Email John Laposky, Managing Editor Phone: (917) 281-4736 | Email Lisa Johnston, Senior Editor Phone: (917) 281-4733 | Email Joseph Palenchar, Senior Editor Phone: (917) 281-4746 | Email Alan Wolf, Senior Editor Phone: (917) 281-4769 | Email

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