Best Buy
Introducing the Best Buy 60th Anniversary Sneaker
10 Aug 2026
Created in collaboration with Nexbie, the sneakers are 3D printed as one seamless piece.
Best Buy Turns 60, and We’re Celebrating with Savings
10 Aug 2026
Sixty years deserves something fun.
Best Buy appoints Anne Bramman as chief financial officer
04 Aug 2026
Prior to joining Best Buy, Bramman held leadership roles at numerous consumer, technology and industrial organizations.
From career growth to family ties: Why interns choose Best Buy
04 Aug 2026
More than 100 interns joined Best Buy for the summer to learn, network and contribute to high-impact projects across the company.
Best Buy powers up sustainability with new solar sites in NY and CA
21 Jul 2026
The new solar sites are joining our existing solar projects in South Carolina, Michigan, California and Texas.
Best Buy announces Executive Team updates
21 Jul 2026
As a part of its CEO transition, this evolution of the company’s leadership team positions Best Buy to accelerate its strategic priorities.
What is an RGB LED TV? Everything to know about the latest TV tech
02 Jul 2026
RGB LED TVs use thousands of red, green and blue light emitting diodes as a light source to produce lifelike color and higher brightness.
Best Buy introduces RGB LED TVs to stores nationwide, ushering new era of home theater
02 Jul 2026
Best Buy is the only national retailer to carry the new RGB LED TVs from Samsung, Sony, LG, TCL and Hisense.
Believing is Seeing: Inside Best Buy’s bold new RGB TV marketing campaign
02 Jul 2026
RGB LED TVs deliver a major leap forward in lifelike color and brightness.
Featured
Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,
The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
