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Best Buy extends its use of Fizzback's customer feedback system to 1600 Phone House stores across Europe.

Fizzback's engagement platform gathers customer feedback from all channels and generates tailored responses. This info is passed to the appropriate staff members. You can also measure employee and store performance (compared within store and across other stores).

Carphone Warehouse already uses Fizzback at about 800 stores in the UK.

Phone House stores operate in France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal and Ireland.

Go Best Buy Europe Expands Fizzback Programme

Withings' body scale is the first connect to the internet via WiFi to upload users' weight data.

The scale connects to the users' online account and uploads their weight data automatically whenever they weigh themselves. It recognises up to 8 different users. They can access their personal account and data through internet browser or iPhone app.

Weight data is used to monitor user progress. Users can allow their coach or nutritionist to access their data on their computer.

The Withings scale can also send body analysis data to a number online fitness tracking coaching services, such as dailyburn and RunKeeper.

Go Withings

Samsung Mobile cancels its support of the Symbian platform, following the company's announcement of its alliance with Microsoft on Windows 7 devices.

Sony Ericsson also says it won't release any more products with the operating system, focusing instead on Google's Android. Sony Ericsson remains a Symbian Foundation founding member.

The Symbian Foundation however remains optimistic, revealing its operating system shipped in over 25 million devices.

Symbian remains the top smartphone platform in Europe thanks to Nokia, but is rapidly losing its share to devices running on iOS and Google Android.

Go Samsung announces Symbian discontinuation

Go Sony Ericsson plans no new Symbian products

Go Symbian ships over 25 million devices

GAME announces the closure of more stores over the next 3 years, following reports of sale and revenue decrease. The UK-based company currently runs 635 stores in its home country, to be reduced to 550. GAME's European stores are not affected yet.

Globally, GAME runs over 1,000 stores.

The company reports losses throughout Europe, although it retains its position as market leader in the UK, Spain, Scandinavia and Czech Republic.

This is GAME's second store closure announcement. Earlier this year the company closed 15 stores and 27 concessions.

The store closure is meant to reduce store overlap between GAME group's two brands, GAME and Gamestation, as well as cut costs.

Chairman Peter Lewis says 70% of customers from stores closed earlier this year transferred to another GAME store.

Go GAME Group's Interim 6 Month Results