If you’re not a student but still want a discount on a new MacBook Pro with Retina Display or MacBook Air, don’t miss this discount. Best Buy has announced that they will be slashing the price on the low-end MacBook Pro with Retina display to $140 off the MSRP, and the price of the low-end MacBook Air from $999 to $949 (with up to $75 off of other models). If you would like to check out these deals for yourself, check out Best Buy’s Apple page. [Read More]

When you are the head of any public institution or company you can not mix your personal life, romantic life, and business life unless you want to court trouble. Brian Dunn is learning this the hard way.

An executive might be able to survive having an affair, they might even be able to survive playing fast and loose with salaries for underlings but mixing the two is almost impossible to overcome. Brian Dunn is learning this now, so is former Arkansas Razorbacks football head coach Bobby Petrino. This is going to be one of the most expensive affairs ever. The difference between Dunn retiring at 70 after many years at the helm and being ousted now could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars to him.

With the biggest shopping season of the year just around the corner, RIM has announced a major discount for its Blackberry Playbook tablet.

The Playbook, which launched this spring for $499, is now available for just $199 from retailers including Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Radioshack, Office Depot and more. [Read More]

Shoutout to the bosses and the entire writing staff for getting out another blazing edition of The Blueprint Magazine. The 2011 August/September issue features the juiciest gossip on Lil Wayne, his self-imposed retirement after Tha Carter IV and new girlfriend. Jennifer Lopez graces the cover and the inside is jammed-packed with the best fall fashion, celebrities, sports news, luxury rides and late summer travel destinations. Subscribe now for only $9.99! or find it in your local BestBuy.

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HP's new tablet, the WebOs-based TouchPad, isn't selling very well. In fact, Best Buy has only been able to sell 10 percent of its inventory since the device launched and has 200,000 of the damn things sitting on the shelves. Now it wants HP to take them back. [Read More]

Best Buy is not doing too well with the whole protecting-customers-information thing. For the second time this year, the big box retailer has had to let its customers that their e-mail address were stolen.

Best Buy says that it discovered customer's e-mail addresses were exposed in a security breach at a third-party vendor on April 22. The company won't disclose which third-party vendor it was, though it did say that it's no longer doing business with the vendor. And no, this has nothing to do with the Epislon security breach that went down last month.

[via CNET]