Wal-Mart, the country’s largest retailer, is expected to announce today that it has adopted the UltraViolet cloud video platform. Dan Rayburn, an analyst for research firm Frost & Sullivan, is reporting that Wal-Mart plans to charge between $2 and $4 to customers who want cloud access to the movies they’ve purchased on DVD. Customers would [...]
Retail Mobile Sites Still Win Over Retail Apps – Mashable
March 12, 2012 Via Leave a Comment
Big online retailers are still reaching far more users with their mobile websites than their mobile apps, Nielsen’s latest report shows. The report was conducted on 5,000 U.S. smartphone users who participated in the research. It shows that the combined reach for five big online retailers – Amazon, eBay, Target, Best Buy and Walmart – [...]
Walmart rumored to have cloud movie service up its sleeve – Yahoo! News
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Universal, Sony, Paramount, Warner, and Fox are rumored to be teaming up with Walmart to bring streaming video to the masses. They’re scheduled to make the big announcement in Hollywood tomorrow, offering the full details on exactly how your favorite movies will soon be available for you to watch in the cloud for an added [...]
Walmart Buys Facebook’s Birthday And Holiday Reminder App Social Calendar – TechCrunch
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It looks like retail giant Walmart has made another acquisition. The e-commerce giant has bought Social Calendar, an app on Facebook that allows you to get birthday and holiday reminders by email and SMS, and to post personalized photo cards and other virtual greetings on friends’ Facebook Walls on their birthdays. Here’s the message posted [...]
Wal-Mart Buys Social Calendar – Technorati
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Big brands are scrambnling to do “more” in social media these days. The platform plays a critical role in marketing and customer service success. So, when news hit that retail giant Wal-Mart bought Social Calendar, an app on Facebook, folks shouldn’t be surprised. All brands are looking to get a piece of the Zuckerberg Pie. [...]
The Bank of Walmart: Cell Phones Replace Credit Cards – Forbes
March 7, 2012 Via Leave a Comment
It was only a few paragraphs in last Friday’s Wall Street Journal, yet it’s likely the biggest retail story of the year so far. We’re referring to reports that some two-dozen industry leaders, including Walmart and Target, are discreetly working together to develop a mobile-payments system that essentially turns cell phones into credit cards. On [...]
Wal-Mart Looks To Deepen Push Into Banks Territory With Mobile Payment Plans – Investors Business Daily
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Just as Bank of America (BAC) and other financial giants strive to come up with new ways to boost their income, Wal-Mart (WMT) and a group of retailers are looking to bypass the banks and tap the potentially lucrative mobile payment market. The retail leader, Target (TGT) and other chains are working on a system [...]
Wal-Mart, Target and other retailers secretly working on mobile payments system – The Verge
March 1, 2012 Via Leave a Comment
If you were hoping that the powers that be would settle on one tap-to-pay smartphone system, you’re out of luck: The Wall Street Journal reports that “roughly two dozen retailers” including Target and Wal-Mart are collaborating on a new mobile payment system of their own. While some of the publication’s facts appear to come from [...]
KeenHow Walmart Wants To Leapfrog Over Amazon – TechCrunch
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Anand Rajaraman is one of Silicon Valley’s less well-known superstars. A successful serial entrepreneur, the Indian born, Stanford educated Rajaraman co-founded Junglee in 1996 which he later sold to Amazon for $250 million. After running Amazon’s technology strategy and inventing its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace, Rajaraman then co-founded Cambrian Ventures before going on to found [...]
Walmart Readying $30 Million UltraViolet Campaign – Home Media Magazine
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Walmart reportedly is readying a store-based marketing rollout for UltraViolet, the industry initiative aimed at jumpstarting ownership — not rental — of movies and TV shows on disc and digital. The $30 million campaign — expected to launch next week — would include store-based signage and staff assistance for consumers seeking to purchase UltraViolet-compatible discs [...]
