Walmart has been losing market share to Amazon for years now. But the tables have turned with Walmart’s Vudu, the brick-and-mortar retailer’s surprisingly successful entrée into the movie download business. Since acquired by Walmart last year, Vudu’s share of the online movie rental market has exploded from an unmentionable 1 percent to become the third [...]
Walmart’s Facebook and Twitter-Powered Future – The Atlantic Wire
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Angry Netflix Customers Turning to Wal-Mart’s Vudu? – International Business Times
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Netflix customers who got upset last month when the company raised pricing on unlimited DVDs by mail and streaming services by 60 percent may be getting the last laugh with Wal-Mart’s Vudu service. Wal-Mart, it seems, has a real hit on hits hands with Vudu, the video streaming and DVD site the company owns and [...]
Walmart’s Vudu Surging in Digital Video Market
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Eighteen months after buying online movie service Vudu, big box retailer Walmart has a bonafide hit on its hands. According to a recent report from IHS Screen Digest Media Research, Vudu has eclipsed both Amazon and the Sony PlayStation Store in the U.S. online movie store rankings. During the first half of 2010, Vudu accounted [...]
Can Wal-Mart Really Take On Amazon? – 24/7 Wall St.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has continued to be the most dominating brick and mortar force in retail, even if it is far from the most attractive and even if it has never been a great online force. The real culprit is that Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has taken over the e-tail sector. Wal-Mart was [...]
Is Item-Level Apparel Tagging Going Strong, Fading, or Just Catching Its Breath? WalMart Expanding Categories to Non-Apparel
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After the trials and tribulations of RFID/EPC programs in the consumer goods to retail value chain, leading ultimately to WalMart’s unsuccessful program and similar disappointments at such retailers as UK’s Tesco and Germany’s Metro Group, it appeared that in the past two years the RFID industry had finally found its white knight in the form [...]
Disney movies missing as Wal-Mart’s Vudu comes to iPad – Los Angeles Times
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Wal-Mart Stores’ digital movie service Vudu is coming to the iPad, minus one of Hollywood’s biggest studios. Walt Disney Studios movies will not be available to Vudu users on the iPad, even though movies from the other five major Hollywood studios — 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. — [...]
iTunes triumphant: Walmart kills its music download store – Fortune
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“After eight years in business, the Walmart Music Downloads Store located at mp3.walmart.com will close on August 28, 2011. All content in the Store will be disabled and no longer available for download from the store.” So begins the certified letter sent to Walmart’s (WMT) distribution and licensing partners and posted Tuesday by Digital Music [...]
Wal-Mart’s Vudu launches on iPad without an app – Reuters
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc’s Vudu video-streaming service launches on Apple Inc’s iPad on Wednesday, but it doesn’t come with the type of app that’s common on the best-selling tablet computer. Wal-Mart said iPad users can now go to vudu.com to buy or rent 20,000 movies and TV episodes to watch instantly. Once bought or rented, the [...]
How Your Social Data Will Power Walmart’s E-Commerce Revolution – TechCrunch
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Walmart is planning to launch several new projects this holiday season based on the technology it acquired from the social media startup Kosmix back in April. Kosmix’s platform previously powered multiple services, including a Twitter search site called TweetBeat, a health vertical called RightHealth and a homepage where users could search the Web by topic. [...]
Inside WalmartLabs: How the Former Kosmix Team Plans to Help the World’s Largest Retailer Get Social and Mobile – Xconomy
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One of the most head-scratching tech headlines of April 2011 was the news that Kosmix, a Mountain View, CA-based startup best known for building a Twitter filtering tool called TweetBeat, had been acquired by Walmart. Yes, that Walmart—the one with 9,000 big-box stores spread across the American heartland. For one thing, Walmart already has a [...]
