WASHINGTON — Consumers spent more in March on furniture, electronics and at restaurants, but also paid more for gas. Retail sales increased 0.4 percent last month, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. It was the ninth consecutive monthly gain. The increase ...

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NEW YORK — Weak demand for pricey flat-screen TVs and notebook computers helped push Best Buy Co.’s fourth-quarter net income down 16 percent. The decline adds urgency to the electronics retailer’s bid to remake its business by opening smaller stores ...

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WASHINGTON — Shoppers snapped up new cars, clothing and electronics in February, pushing retail sales up for the eighth straight month. Retail sales rose 1 percent last month, the Commerce Department reported Friday. Part of the gain reflected higher prices ...

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LAS VEGAS — Big tablets and small tablets, white ones and black ones. Cheap ones and expensive ones. Brand names famous and obscure at the starting line of a race where the iPad is already a speeding dot near the ...

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NEW YORK — Americans spent more on clothes, shoes, luxury goods and electronics in December than a year earlier, extending retail sales momentum that had been building since August, according to data released Wednesday. Figures released by MasterCard Advisors’ SpendingPulse, ...

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My BlackBerry is getting close to three years old. It has served me faithfully in that time, allowing me to ping co-workers at never-ending meetings, to e-mail prospective clients on the weekends, and to confirm my Southwest Airline reservations exactly ...

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Over the summer, the U.S. Supreme Court revealed that it had no idea what a text message was. The case is City of Ontario v. Quon, and the issue was “simply” whether the police department has the right to read personal ...

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