Best Buy will offer Black Friday deals on Oct. 13 and 14, the retailer announced Thursday. Those …

Microsoft announced 10 new app store principles in a blog post Thursday, needling Apple‘s and Google‘s policies in the process. The new guidelines from Microsoft are intended to promote choice, fairness and innovation for software developers on Windows 10. “Developers will have the freedom to choose whether to distribute their apps for Windows through our app store. We will not block competing …

The folks at FandangoNow and Vudu tell me that Hocus Pocus, the classic 1993 comedy with Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker, is their most-watched movie on Halloween for the last five years running. If you’re in the mood for a movie with all the essential Halloween ingredients this year — you know, talking cats, zombies, witches and a magical …