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The retailer Best Buy has a last minute offer for those who wasnt able to shop last Black Friday and Cyber Monday and Green Monday. Here are some deals for you.

Best Buy will hold a one day in-store-only pre-Black Friday event on Saturday, offering exciting brands including Samsung, Sony TVs, PlayStation 4, Xbox, and Apple products. Gotta Be Mobile has reported that the sale would be held in 400 locations and buyers can save $70 up to $1,200 on their favorite tech brands. The event will be in a four hour window from 1 p.m. to 5p.m. local time.

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Best Buy Co Inc (BBY.N) plans to close some stores and consolidate its operations in Canada, the U.S. electronics retailer's second-largest market, in a move that will hurt earnings this year, the company said on Saturday.

Major U.S. retailers missed fewer Christmas deliveries this year, according to two small, early surveys released on Friday, partly reflecting a year's worth of investments made to avoid 2013's last-minute shipping debacle.

Despite a disappointing Thanksgiving weekend, U.S. holiday sales may squeak by expectations if steeper and longer-running discounts lure enough shoppers.

Amarilis Sinchi visited Macy's at a New Jersey mall on Black Friday, but she waited until this week to purchase the red fleece pajamas she had her eye on.

U.S. online sales grew a smaller than expected 8 percent on Cyber Monday after web promotions before and during the Thanksgiving weekend robbed business from what has traditionally been the busiest day of the year for Internet shopping.

Early holiday promotions and rising online shopping took a toll on in-store U.S. sales during the Thanksgiving weekend as shoppers on average spent 6.4 percent less than they did a year earlier, according to data released Sunday by an industry group.

Japan's largest e-commerce firm Rakuten Inc (4755.T) said it was in talks to buy U.S. rebate site operator Ebates, a deal reportedly worth $950 million and the latest in a long line of overseas acquisitions.

If you want to get a Samsung gadget, head to best buy. Nearly every Best Buy store has a space for Samsung products in its store-within-a-store concept, TechCrunch reported.

Philadelphia-based company Monetate has raised USD8 million for the development of its platform that helps other companies drive their sales through analysis of data from various sources.

About 350,000 shares were sold by Best Buy CEO Joly to pay for divorce but this does not dilute his shareholdings in the company.

Best Buy Co's founder Richard Schulze plans to diversify his assets by selling an undisclosed amount of the company's stock.

Best Buy reported increased profits, proving CEO Joly's cost-effective plans successful.