"We'd love to sell new TVs to people, " says Marc Pearl, founder of the Consumer Electronics Retailers Coalition.

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Huang Guangyu, the founder and still-largest shareholder of the electronics retailer Gome, was tried last week on bribery and insider trading charges.

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"We are defining a new era of convergence in technology, with one unified operating system that underpins cloud computing, data centers, PCs and consumer electronics" says Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and VP Products at Canonical.

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Google co-founder Larry Page launched the service at the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, but the success of YouTube has made Google Video increasingly irrelevant.

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Best Buy shares are trading sharply lower Friday morning after the electronics retailer issued a joint announcement with founder Richard Schulze to disclose that they have agreed to give Schulze more time for due diligence before making a bid.

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Another concern: Alphatec founder Chaarn Uswachoke may be more interested in funding other electronics ventures.

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With last week's announcement that Web search company AltaVista was going to layoff 225 employees, one-fourth of its workforce, I finally concluded that Digital Equipment , AltaVista's founder, is the greatest single object lesson of the electronics age.

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Steve Jobs, the co-founder and former CEO of Apple, contributed mightily to the history of personal electronics and media.

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The struggling electronics chain also said Friday that it did not receive a buyout bid from its co-founder Richard Schulze by the deadline Thursday, ending one question mark that had been hovering over the Minneapolis company.

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