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Top Stories - August 5, 2015 RadioShack Update: Sprint Unpacks Its Bags Overland Park, Kan. — Sprint and RadioShack are officially roommates. More » Target Testing Beacons In 50 Stores Minneapolis — Target is trialing wireless beacons in 50 test stores as an aid to brick-and-mortar shoppers. More » Alibaba Appoints President Hangzhou, China — Global e-commerce platform provider Alibaba Group has brought in Goldman Sachs alum Michael Evans as president. More » Office Depot Primed For Merger With Staples Boca Raton, Fla. – Office Depot is getting all its ducks lined up in anticipation of its year-end $6.3 billion acquisition by Staples. More » One On One With Philips' Jeff Wojnicz At Nationwide's PrimeTime Show TWICE editor-at-large Steve Smith talks TV, retailing and back-to-school with Philips sales VP Jeff Wojnicz at the Nationwide Marketing Group's PrimeTime show this week in Las Vegas. More » Abt Taps Spiwak To Run Corporate Sales Glenview, Ill.  — Abt Electronics has brought in Hammacher Schlemmer veteran Marc Spiwak to help revitalize its corporate sales operation. More » AT&T Adds Discounted Home-Automation Packages Dallas – AT&T has revised its Digital Life home automation/security plans to offer two bundles that it says deliver discounts over purchasing the same services on an a la carte basis. More » Brightstar Names New Finance Chief Miami – Mobile distribution giant Brightstar has hired J.P. Morgan veteran Reza Taleghani as chief financial officer. More » Audio-Industry Veteran Len Schneider Dies Nutley, N.J. — Audio-industry veteran Len Schneider passed away on Monday. More » Q&A With ZigBee Alliance VP Mark Walters Mark Walters, a longtime technology figure in the home-automation market, was appointed recently as strategic development VP at the Zigbee Alliance (ZigBee.org), a non-profit association of around 400 companies that collaborate to develop and promote open, global wireless standards for IoT for use in consumer, commercial and industrial applications. TWICE asked him about the top action items on his agenda, how the home-automation market is evolving, challenges facing the market, the impact of an influx of new wireless home-automation technologies, and more. More » SuperMHL Chips Arrive on the Scene When SuperMHL was first unveiled back in January at CES, one of the main unanswered questions was, "When will we see this in actual products?" As is normally the case with this type of new technology, the answer is strongly related to when semiconductors capable of handling the new format will be available; it was simply too early to get that information back in Las Vegas. More » Blog Subscription Commerce: Reshaping The Future of CE Retail By James Gagliardi, Digital River Consumers are increasingly foregoing the security of owning things for the affordable flexibility of on-demand access – and according to Goldman Sachs, millennials are leading the way. It seems the "end of ownership" is not far off. More » Videos Lexus Made A Hoverboard » Turn Your Smartphone Into A 3D Hologram » 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. 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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