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Best Buy is a major American consumer electronics retailer selling computers, phones, appliances, and other tech both in stores and online.
Over 100 people lined up at a San Francisco Best Buy for Nvidia's RTX Spark launch, but PCMag says it looked like only a handful bought one. Many came for free swag or out of curiosity, so the line says little about demand at $2,599.
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Apple's Get Ready tool opened October 12 so iPhone Duo buyers can pick model, color, storage and carrier before pre-orders start October 16. Engadget warns that waiting for the window could delay delivery of a phone that ships October 23.
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The ROG Xbox Ally X20 keeps the Ally X chip, memory and storage, and charges $300 more for an OLED panel and the cooling it needed. The $2,499 bundle is the stranger number.
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Meta's Muse agent passed 5 million downloads in a month as Planet Fitness and Booking, which profit when customers don't compare or cancel, fell 11% to 12%. Retailers have stayed near the index, and their open question is who completes the purchase and keeps the data.
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Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops ship October 16 from $2,599, while 128GB configurations from HP and Asus list at $5,109 to $6,999.99, Tom's Hardware reported. Teams buying for local models will have to order that capacity from maker web stores and check every listing for core counts.
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Meta signed Walmart, Gap, Sephora, Wayfair and Best Buy to its Muse shopping agent on September 23, 15 days after the app launched. Mark Zuckerberg has indicated Meta intends to earn from Muse mainly through small per-purchase fees, though it has not said how large they are or who pays them.
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Bose took eight or nine months to build its $99 Noise Cancelling Wired Earbuds, its first wired pair since 2015. That pace lets an incumbent sell into a youth-led trend while it is still growing, provided the product keeps the simplicity those buyers came for.
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Apple's iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders and its first foldable sit five weeks apart. Anyone buying handsets in quantity now has two ordering windows to choose between, and the larger phone is already the constrained one.
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Almost every announcement at the hour-long keynote tied back to Meta's personal agent, including glasses from $449 and a Mac that Muse can operate while the user is away. The metaverse barely came up.
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An ecommerce audit consultant writing in Entrepreneur says most AI crawlers read only a page's initial HTML, so a product page that ranks in Google can return nothing to an assistant fielding around 50 million shopping queries a day.
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Pre-orders opened on 22 September for a $899 Android laptop that Google says uses ChromeOS's Titan root of trust and on-device malware detection, with five OEMs named and Qualcomm confirming silicon for Dell and HP.
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Meta's $800 Ray-Ban Display sold out in two days across the handful of US stores that carry it. Because Meta will not sell a pair without a fitting demo first, the sales ceiling is demo capacity, and it is doubling locations this month.
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Internal documents reviewed by Business Insider describe growing Amazon's same-day network from about 85 facilities to more than 1,000 by 2031, a five-year build that Amazon says is preliminary and not finalized.
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Amazon Ads opened a ChatGPT pilot for select US advertisers on 10 September, selling placements under answers to buyers who plan in Amazon DSP while OpenAI's system chooses which of those ads a user sees.
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Internal documents put Canadian package growth above 40 percent by 2029 and record a March decision to source from China rather than the US, in the document's own words, to avoid tariffs.
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Internal forecasts reviewed by Business Insider have Canadian package volume rising more than 40% by 2029, and they were still being drawn up after Trump's extra 50% duty.
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Apple raised prices across most of its hardware in June 2026, citing the memory shortage. Refresh budgets written before that date are now short, and Engadget's read is that waiting will not recover it.
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The Verge says the RAM and storage crunch will keep pushing prices up well into next year, because all the memory being made through 2027 is already allocated.
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