Carphone Warehouse

Peter Scott, MD Carphone Warehouse and Alan Foy, CEO Blueface pictures in the IFSC store Blueface strikes major deal with Carphone Warehouse. Blueface Mobile, Ireland’s first dedicated business mobile service, announced today that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Carphone Warehouse, to resell its service throughout the Carphone Warehouse retail estate of 83 stores nationwide. Blueface, which is the only wholly Irish-owned mobile and converged telephony company, delivers both a...Read Full Story

Submit an amazing idea to elevator@blueface.ie now to be in with a chance of winning €50,000 worth of services for your business! Exciting day for us at Blueface today as we officially launched our ‘Blueface Elevator’ competition! This competition invites Irish-based start-ups with innovative ideas to give a three-minute pitch of their big idea, with a massive prize valued at €50,000 for the most original idea that also has strong commercial potential. The competition will be held in Carphone...Read Full Story

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. electricals retailer Best Buy Co Inc will pay $1.3 billion to buy its British partner out of a fast-growing U.S. mobile phone venture, while abandoning plans for a chain of European megastores, it said on MondayThe moves are the latest sign Best Buy is scaling back its overseas ambitions in order to focus on its main U.S. business, which faces stiff competition from discounters and online retailers. Earlier this year, the U.S. group dropped plans for Best Buy-branded...Read Full Story

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. electricals retailer Best Buy Co Inc will pay $1.3 billion to buy its British partner out of a fast-growing U.S. mobile phone venture, while abandoning plans for a chain of European megastores, it said on MondayThe moves are the latest sign Best Buy is scaling back its overseas ambitions in order to focus on its main U.S. business, which faces stiff competition from discounters and online retailers. Earlier this year, the U.S. group dropped plans for Best Buy-branded...Read Full Story

Carphone Warehouse Europe added 2.02 million connections in the fourth quarter of 2011/2012 (13 weeks to 31 March), down 19 percent from 2.50 million a year earlier.Read Full Story

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. electrical goods retailer Best Buy <BBY.N> will open its first British store in May, it said on Monday, as partner Carphone Warehouse <CPW.L> completed its demerger from telecoms arm TalkTalk <TALK.L>.Best Buy said it would open a 50,000 square foot megastore in Thurrock, east of London, in May, slightly later than the April date it had previously flagged.That will be followed by stores in Southampton, southern England and Merry Hill, central England in June, and then Liverpool in the...Read Full Story

UK mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is the latest company to set its sights on the cloud music space, via a service called My Hub. Its iPhone app has just gone live, promising users that it “allows you to listen to your music collection when and where you want to. You can organize your music, create playlists and rate your favorite content”. The My Hub website gives more details: the service offers 2GB of free storage, but for music “Its clever technology means you don’t have to re...Read Full Story

The UK’s leading independent mobile phone retailer, Carphone Warehouse, added four placeholders to their inventory list for new iPhone models today. It makes sense the official iPhone reseller like Carphone Warehouse had such information. With new iPhone models expected this summer, in addition to the previously-announced 3.0 firmware, Carphone Warehouse appears to be gearing up for the change. A screenshot of its inventory system provided by a person known to have access to such information...Read Full Story

The Carphone Warehouse Group, the British mobile phone retailer and Internet provider, reported sales growth for its second quarter on Thursday.Carphone said in a trading update that sales were up at both its broadband TalkTalk Group and retail business Best Buy Europe.In the last two years the group has reshaped its business, spinning off its mobile phone retail offering into a joint venture with US electronics group Best Buy and building a fixed line broadband business, TalkTalk.Carphone is...Read Full Story

Here’s a story that should surprise absolutely no-one (what with Carphone Warehouse being one of the UK’s exclusive retailers for the iPhone, since day 1). According to Apple Insider, a leaked photo’s appeared, showing Carphone Warehouse’s stock system, and… it’s got the version 3 iPhone listed on there. There’s two possible alternative theories as to what those entries mean: 1/ Carphone Warehouse, as an exclusive partner, are privy to Apple info before anyone else, and so have geared up...Read Full Story