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Best Buy Posts Loss on Lower Revenue

Drew FitzGerald, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Commerce on May 21 at 11:50 am PT

Best Buy Co. ramped up cost-cutting during its fiscal first quarter as its retail revenue continued to slide. Online sales improved, however.

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Amazon Profit Falls but Margin Widens

Ben Fox Rubin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Commerce on April 25 at 1:53 pm PT

Amazon.com Inc.’s first-quarter profit declined 37 percent as the e-commerce giant continued to see its results dragged down by its aggressive expansion plans, but gross margin widened to 26.6 percent from 24 percent.

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Amazon’s Quest for Web Names Draws Foes

Greg Bensinger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Commerce on March 11 at 7:00 am PT

Large and small companies are vying for control of an array of new Internet domain names, but Amazon.com Inc.’s plans are coming under particular scrutiny.

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Best Buy, Founder End Deal Talks

Sharon Terlep, Ann Zimmerman and Dana Cimilluca, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Commerce on March 1 at 7:00 am PT

Best Buy Co.has ended talks with founder Richard Schulze over a deal in which he and a group of buyout firms were proposing to take a minority stake in the firm in exchange for three seats on the board, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Targeting Tech-Savvy Startups

Shelly Banjo, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 26 at 12:55 pm PT

Home Depot is the latest traditional brick-and-mortar retailer to buy a startup and launch a “technology lab” to try to catch up to online retailers like Amazon.com Inc. and eBay Inc.

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Stores Bring Black Friday to the Web

Ann Zimmerman, Shelly Banjo and Dana Mattioli, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Commerce on November 15, 2012 at 8:30 am PT

As retailers gear up for the traditional shop-fest known as Black Friday, they are focusing on the mobs that line up outside stores and — increasingly — on the masses that shop online from home.

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PayPal Jumps Into Price-Matching

Greg Bensinger, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Commerce on November 1, 2012 at 2:46 pm PT

EBay Inc.’s PayPal unit is seeking to one-up big box retailers in what is emerging as one of this holiday shopping season’s hot trends: Price matching.

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Best Buy Shakes Up Management

Ann Zimmerman and Joan Solsman, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Commerce on October 24, 2012 at 3:44 pm PT

Best Buy Co. announced a leadership shake-up as the struggling electronics chain warned that earnings this quarter would be “significantly below” those it posted a year ago.

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Target to Match Online Prices, Following Best Buy

Ann Zimmerman and Elizabeth Holmes, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in Commerce on October 16, 2012 at 4:17 pm PT

Target Corp. became the latest big-box chain to offer to match the online prices of some rival retailers in what is shaping up to be a fiercely competitive holiday shopping season.