Rapdily expanding retailer hhgregg announced this week that it will open six stores in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area on Oct. 15. The six stores will employ 250, according to the Tampa Bay Business Journal . The new stores follow 14 that have...

Rapdily expanding retailer hhgregg announced this week that it will open six stores in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area on Oct. 15. The six stores will employ 250, according to the Tampa Bay Business Journal . The new stores follow 14 that have...

The deadline for free registration for International CES has been extended to Oct. 7, from its previous date of Oct. 1, CEA said Thursday. The fee will rise to $100 Oct. 8, and remain so until Jan. 2, when it rises to $200. Participants can...

The deadline for free registration for International CES has been extended to Oct. 7, from its previous date of Oct. 1, CEA said Thursday. The fee will rise to $100 Oct. 8, and remain so until Jan. 2, when it rises to $200. Participants can...

Part 2 of Ed Sachs' interview with CEA President/CEO Gary Shapiro , from this week's edition of the Sachs Report newsletter.  In the interview, Shapiro discusses the state of the industry and CEA itself, as well as some of his regrets over...

Part 2 of Ed Sachs' interview with CEA President/CEO Gary Shapiro , from this week's edition of the Sachs Report newsletter.  In the interview, Shapiro discusses the state of the industry and CEA itself, as well as some of his regrets over...

TiVo on Friday was awarded $200 million by a federal court as part of its patent litigation against Dish Network and Echostar. According to Reuters , the U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas made the award as part of a contempt-of-court citing...

Samsung has abandoned plans to purchase SanDisk, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The South Korean CE giant had attempted a hostile takeover of the chip maker last year that was rejected and eventually withdrawn. The announcement last...

The Home Theater Specialists of America (HTSA) and Sharp announced this week that 23 individuals from 16 HTSA member organizations have been given their Solar Energy Certification, as the result of a two-day course taught earlier this summer in...

The September 2009 issue of Dealerscope magazine has been posted to Dealerscope.com, and can be read in full here.

The parent company of CompUSA, TigerDirect and the new CircuitCity.com has been sued by Florida's state attorney general, which charges the company with failure to pay advertised rebates to consumers. The suit specifically names subsidiaries...

The long-awaited Beatles-branded edition of MTV Games' "Rock Band" franchise is set to arrive in stores Wednesday, and is expected to be one of the highest-selling game titles of the year. The first-ever interactive video game released...

The annual CEDIA Expo gets underway next Wednesday, Sept. 9, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. Follow Dealerscope all this week for full team coverage of the event.