Tag archive: Wal-mart

Ten minutes before the Porter Ranch Walmart opened in Los Angeles, California, a mother of two used a can of pepper spray to attack other shoppers waiting in line for the early, Black Friday door-buster sales according to the Los Angeles Times. The woman was specifically looking to get the $100 discounted price on a Xbox 360 as well as a few Xbox 360 games. With both children in tow, she began spraying other customers as soon as the store… Read More

On late Sunday, USA Today's official account on Twitter was taken over by the hacking group known as the Script Kiddies. Representatives of USA Today quickly regained control of the account with help from Twitter. While no fake news post was distributed over the USA Today account, the hacking group used the platform of about 170,000 followers to brag about hacks on other prominent accounts and attempted to promote a recently created… Read More

Earlier today, California governor Jerry Brown put his signature on the Internet sales tax bill at the Gap Inc. offices in San Francisco. However, this doesn't mean that California will see an increase at the online checkout screen just yet. Governor Jerry Brown compromised with the leader in opposition, Amazon, and postponed collection of the sales tax until September 12, 2012. In return, Amazon agrees to end a political push to promote… Read More

In a key move in its ongoing rumble with Netlflix, streaming-video service Vudu is now available on the iPad. Penetrating the Apple market is a big step for Vudu as it tries to keep up with the market leader. Vudu announced the change in a statement with Wal-Mart, the service's retail giant of a parent. Except, it's not the usual iPad app announcement. In fact, Vudu doesn't even have an app at all. Instead, Vudu reworked its… Read More

It may be one of the ideas that nearly killed Priceline.com, but Walmart thinks it can get you to grocery shop on the Web. The worldwide retailer has begun testing grocery delivery in California in response to Amazon's recent tests, reports the NY Times. Calling its service “Walmart To Go,” the company now offers those in the San Jose area home delivery of groceries, and other items. Walmart's new plan is likely in… Read More

VUDU might not have the brand recognition that its competitor Netflix does, but with the tech built into a range of HDTVs and Blu-ray players, as well as support for Windows, Mac OS X and PlayStation 3 platforms, it certainly has reach. That reach just extended a little further with the announcement today that the Wal-Mart-owned Video On Demand service will now be available right in your browser window on VUDU.com. VUDU's entire library is… Read More

Though we talk a lot about Hulu and Netflix, the real winner in online video distribution may be Apple. Despite heated competition from competitors like Microsoft and Wal-Mart, the iTunes store retained a dominant share of digital movie purchases in 2010, according to IHS Screen Digest. iTunes accounted for 64.5 percent of the Electronic Sell Through and Internet Video on Demand (EST, iVOD) market during 2010, down from 74.4 percent in 2009.… Read More

In 2009, Netflix subscribers filed a lawsuit against the company and Walmart for their alleged attempts to illegally control the DVD industry. The two companies are being accused of violating antitrust laws by monopolizing the market back in 2005, when Wal-Mart agreed to stop renting DVDs online and Netflix promised to keep physical copies from hitting shelves. And it looks like they may have a case, since a federal judge granted class action… Read More

Who isn't selling the iPad and iPhone these days? Wal-Mart's buy-in-bulk members-only store, Sam's Club, has jumped on the Apple bandwagon. At an investors meeting today, as reported by CNET, representatives confirmed that the warehouse store will begin selling the iPhone 4,  iPad, and iPod Touch in the near future, though no official date or pricing information was given. The news comes a day after partent-company Wal-Mart… Read More

Wal-Mart says it's cutting the price of the most up-to-date iPhone in half. That's another sign Apple is getting ready to unveil a new model. Wal-Mart says that starting Tuesday the iPhone 3GS with 16 gigabytes of storage space will cost $97 with a two-year contract with AT&T. It currently costs $197. Leaked prototypes for an updated iPhone surfaced on blogs recently. The price cut could signal retailers are clearing the shelves… Read More

After garnering the ire of consumers with unlimited data plans that aren’t actually unlimited, Wal-Mart’s low-cost carrier Straight Talk has belied its name yet again with an even shadier marketing strategy: shill reviews. While we’re used to spam from the likes of tiny companies that need every eye they can get, we were surprised this morning when Digital Trends saw a bombardment of shill reviews promoting Straight Talk – a prepaid cellular… Read More

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in conjunction with retail giant Wal-mart, has issued a recall for some 1.5 million Durabrand standalone DVD players sold in its stores from January 2006 through July 2009. The players are compact, silver-colored units with a U-shaped opening on top for DVD disc; Wal-mart has had a dozen reports of the units overheating, five of which have caused fires leading to property damage—although… Read More

After losing heaps of money trying to run its own online bookstore, Borders essentially turned over its online store to Amazon.com. Links on the Borders bookstore turned users over to Amazon, and Borders got a commission on the sale. Borders might have been the second largest book retailer in the United States, but even it couldn't make money selling books online. Now, seven years later, Borders has decided to give e-commerce a second… Read More