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Top Stories - August 4, 2015 Now available: 2015 TWICE Top 100 CE/Major Appliance Retailers Report Last year was another tough one for CE, what with industry contraction and smartphone mania diverting dollars from A/V. Indeed, total tech retail sales fell about 4 percent, although double-digit growth at Amazon limited sell-through declines to 0.4 percent for TWICE's Top 100 CE dealers. Enter appliances, that beautiful, big-ticket category that still manages to generate volume and profits. Learn more about the industry's retail giants, and their earnings salvation, with the 2015 Top 100 CE/Major Appliance Retailers Report. Click here to purchase the report. Nationwide Takes Share As New Leadership Takes Control Las Vegas – The Nationwide Marketing Group opened its summer PrimeTime event here yesterday by marking its leadership transition and reporting that its "Prepare For Share" initiative has begun to take share away from competitors across all categories. More » Amazon's Echo Heard In Staples Framingham, Mass. — Amazon has extended distribution of its Echo smart speaker to Staples, making it the exclusive third-party retailer of the cloud-based device. More » SoftBank Chairman: More Confident About Sprint Turnaround Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint chairman Masayoshi Son admitted he lost confidence in Sprint's future after a failed bid to merge the company with T-Mobile, but he reaffirmed his support of Sprint's turnaround plans during an investor's conference call today. More » Cristiano Ronaldo Taps Monster For Roc Headphones Los Angeles — Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo has co-founded a consumer electronics company, and he's teaming with Monster for its first products. More » The Latest In Home Automation: What To Look For New York – Home-automation suppliers have updated their product portfolios or added distribution in recent days, with key announcements coming from Amazon, Smart Things, Nest and Ring. More » Sphero SPRK Rolling Toward A Retailer Near You New York — Sphero is rolling STEM toward consumers. More » Haier Holding Court At Nationwide Show Las Vegas – The Nationwide Marketing Group's PrimeTime show, running here this week at The Venetian, is a coming-out party of sorts for Haier. More » Sprint Falls To Fourth Place In Subscriber Count Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint boosted its subscriber base by 675,000 in its first fiscal quarter ending June, but the gain wasn't enough to prevent the carrier from slipping behind a surging T-Mobile to fall to fourth place by wireless subscriber count. More » Virtual Reality On The Cheap Los Angeles – Startup NextCore launched its first virtual-reality headset though the Amazon and the Noon VR web stores at only $89. More » MB Quart Revs Up Power Sports Marketing Lake Zurich, Ill. – MB Quartexpanded its selection of mobile-audio products for the power-sports market with the launch of speakers designed specifically for Polaris-brand all-terrain vehicles (ATVs). More » Nortek's AVC Segment Trims Losses In Q2 Providence, R.I. – Nortek's audio, video and control solutions (AVC) segment shrank its second-quarter and first-half operating losses by 49 percent, with the quarter's loss shrinking to $4.1 million from the year-ago $8.1 million loss, parent company Nortek reported. More » Blog Bill Nye Reads Mean Tweets By Lisa Johnston Bill Nye the Science Guy is the center of a Kickstarter campaign by two fans who intend to make a movie about the science icon and "his quest to change the world with science." In this riff on Jimmy Kimmel's "Mean Tweets" series, Nye reveals there are some who aren't quite as enamored with him. More » Giveaway We're teaming up with Sharkk for a Facebook giveaway of its Bluetooth BoomBox Buddy Speaker Set! To enter, like, comment or share this post (or do all three!). Jobs Retail/ Key Account Sales Manager – Consumer Products DivisionCompany - D&H » More Listings » White Papers Catching the Next Wave in Smart Technology eBrief - Bluetooth® Smart Technology » 5 Supply Chain Best Practices - For Bringing M2M and Other Connected Devices to Market - Ingram Micro » More Resources »

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