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Best Buy offers $200 iPhone trade

screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Those of you who want to shed your old iPhone in exchange for a new model can score a trade-in deal at Best Buy this weekend. From now through Sunday, consumers who trade in an iPhone 5, 4S, or 4 and upgrade to a 5S or 5C will get up to $200 and more in credit …

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Is Apple’s Beats buy just a remix of HTC’s earlier mistake?

Beats Chairman Jimmy Iovine, HTC CEO Peter Chou, and Dr. Dre. HTC, Beats Editor’s note: Apple on May 28 confirmed that it’s buying Beats for $3 billion. A high-flying smartphone manufacturer is buying the much-ballyhooed Beats music brand in an effort to earn some street cred. No, I’m not talking about the purported deal between Apple and Beats, which the …

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