Best Buy offers a Take Back program, where customers can bring in their old electronics for e-cycling.
It has formed a company called SpinCircuit to speed electronics design by using e-speak.
Merchants of various product types (i.e. electronics, fashion, health, pets) build online stores on the Rakuten platform and sell directly to customers.
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He says the worst-case scenario for Apple is that it sinks to consumer electronics gross margins i.e. in the 20% range.
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And likewise, there is an Electronics Recycler Certification known as e-Stewards (www.e-Stewards.org) that provides a market based program to implement the Basel Convention rules and truly responsible recycling.
This more recent data--courtesy of Spending Pulse, the economic research arm of MasterCard (nyse: MA - news - people ) WorldWide--divides U.S. consumer discretionary spending into eight buckets: air travel, e-commerce, electronics, furniture, lodging (as in hotels, not primary residences), apparel, luxury (excluding jewelry) and restaurants.
Get ready for hordes of shoppers to hit Best Buy and other discount electronics retailers, creating new mountains of e-waste as they upgrade to an HD format.
Glimpses of the third generation are on display this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show, where manufacturers are previewing e-readers with color screens, interactive graphics and magazine-style layouts.
Get ready for hordes of shoppers to hit Best Buy (nyse: BBY - news - people ) and other discount electronics retailers, creating new mountains of e-waste as they upgrade to an HD format.
Executives said Best Buy is well positioned to benefit from the changes in electronics, noting that the company offers the largest e-reader assortment in the industry and is heavily focused on its Best Buy Mobile business, which offers smartphones from multiple carriers under one roof, similar to the way such phones are marketed in Europe.
Sales of e-readers doubled last year, and the Consumer Electronics Association, which stages CES, predicts they will double again in 2010.
TeleCruz designs a system-on-a-chip that equips a TV set's innards with modest e-mail and Web capabilities without the need for fancy external electronics.
In fact, electrical engineer Limor Fried founded Adafruit Industries, an e-commerce website that distributes a veritable treasure trove of toys, electronics and ways for children to learn to build programs, apps and more.
Participants in that treaty tried to finalize e-waste guidelines, but they were not adopted because some developed countries and the electronics industry would not agree without adding loopholes to allow repairable electronic waste to be exempted, said advocacy group IPEN, a global network of more than 700 public interest non-governmental organizations.
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