[caption id="attachment_14795" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]Under Microsoft's new program, authorized refurbishers can set or negotiate prices for licenses sold to third-party companies. | dennizn/Shutterstock[/caption]
PCs for People is among the organiza
[caption id="attachment_14084" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Second quarter PC shipments this year rose 2.8% compared with the second quarter of 2019. | joyfull/Shutterstock[/caption]
PC shipments were up almost 3% during the second quarter of the year compared with 2019.
[caption id="attachment_13498" align="aligncenter" width="900"]Market research firm Gartner noted that in the first quarter of 2020 shipments of new PCs around the world declined by 12.3% year over year. | N.Z.Photography/Shutterstock[/caption]
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted worldwide supply and demand for new PCs, bringing
[caption id="attachment_11050" align="alignright" width="300"] Ingrid Sinclair, Sims Recycling Solutions[/caption]
With massive amounts of server farm electronics expected to be replaced in coming years, Sims Recycling Solutions has its head solidly in the cloud.
Executives from the global ITAD and e-scrap recycling company rec
Federal prosecutors allege a computer repair and refurbishment company owner defrauded a government program to obtain numerous used devices over a decade.
Steven Mays, owner of the now-closed Mays Computers & Outdoors in Athens, Ala., was charged in June with four counts of mail fraud and one count each of wire fraud, the
An emerging retail sales outlet for refurbished phones, tablets and laptops has raised $48 million to help it expand.
Back Market, an online marketplace that recently entered the North American market, raised the money from Paris-based investment groups.
A three-year-old French online marketplace, Back Market provides a sales outlet for refurbishing
[caption id="attachment_8175" align="alignright" width="300"] A cryptocurrency mining rig (photo courtesy of Filmar Technologies)[/caption]
When Serdar Bankaci went looking for a graphics card recently, he found frustration instead.
"I personally was looking for a graphics card for gaming for myself, and I couldn't find anything," he said.
Computer Discounters Inc. has partnered with an Ireland-based reverse logistics and ITAD company to help both businesses bolster asset recovery operations within the U.S.
Computer Discounters Inc.
Regulators say 1.6 million pounds of computers and monitors were recycled through the Oklahoma state program last year, the lowest weight in six years.
A steep drop from 2.7 million pounds a year earlier was likely due to declines in manufacturer-sponsored collections, as well as an evolving stream of lighter end-of-life devices, according to t