Posts Tagged with ‘Wal-mart’

Just little more than a month ago I reported on how Apple's iTunes music service has passed up Best Buy to become the number two music retailer just under Wal-Mart.
Not surprisingly, Ars Technica has reported today that the latest NPD MusicWatch Survey for the month of January has shown Apple making a significant stride in passing Wal-Mart to now become the top music retailer in the nation.
The stats from the NPD Group show that the iTunes music [...]

The mobile phone market is growing at an astounding rate, and there is a lot of potential in the mobile market considering how fast-paced and on-the-go our society has become. Amazon's newly launched mobile shopping experience, known as TextBuyIt, utilizes SMS text messaging to allow users to quickly find results from within Amazon's expansive product database.
By texting a product name, description or UPC/ISBN code to 262966 (AMAZON) from any cell phone, anywhere, users will be able to make use of [...]

With the “official” announcement of Google Health, which was hinted at back in January, Google is highlighting an ongoing trend of putting absolutely everything online. But what does it really mean for patients?
While it doesn't seem to have gotten the insane amount of press that Google has, Microsoft was actually first out of the gate, announcing HealthVault back in October of last year. With buy-in from corporate partners, HealthVault can link up your data with services from these partners. Your [...]

A major tide is shifting in the music industry as the digital age slowly eats away at the number of CD sales in favor of downloadable MP3s. Today, Apple has announced that the sales figures for 2007 are in from the NPD Group, and iTunes has come in as the #2 music retailer, trailing only behind Wal-Mart.
In today's press release, Apple has revealed that more than 50 million people are now using the iTunes store of more than 6 [...]

In a bid to diversify its holdings in the realm occupied by its Web-based business, Wal-Mart has done something quite unpredictable and peculiar. It has launched its very own SEM service. (SEM is short for search engine marketing.)
Indeed. The company that started small and unsophisticated decades ago and grew to become the largest retail force on Earth, has apparently tapped the powers that be at Innuity, a well-known Web software specialist, and arranged to establish a marketing service within [...]

Web 2.0 is an action platform and should direct technology towards our most pressing needs! There's serious, and then there is SERIOUS!
My job here at Profy is to report on significant (and sometimes insignificant) Web 2.0 technology. Our goal - my goal, is to be honest, fair and impartial about the subjects we write about so that you guys will get an honest “heads up” on happenings in our little world. Sometimes we all need to focus our resources [...]