Posts Tagged with ‘Walmart’

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 [...]

Another piece for you today about media and pricing, this one a rebuttal to TechCrunch editor and proprietor Michael Arrington?s insistence that recorded music is heading toward an existence as a ?free? commodity.
Firstly, I must say I agree with several of Mr Arrington?s points, one being that DRM is headed on a downward spiral to eventual eradication, and another that CDs sales are plummeting as well.
But there?s a portion of his argument that I can?t possibly accept, which has to [...]

AllOfMP3 hasn’t fooled anyone with its ridiculously low-priced tracks. The site’s operators have claimed repeatedly that middlemen working for the recording industry were remunerated by the sales, despite repeated assertions by members of the RIAA, among other organizations, that they had yet to see any funds from the Russia-based operation. And it would only take an ounce of reason to deduce that no cash had or would ever be transferred from the folks working the store at AllOfMP3 to [...]

News today from Time Inc. notes the passing of yet another icon of print media. A story from Reuters via Yahoo! News announced Life magazine will no longer grace newsstands with its photography.
We talk a good deal about traditional media coming to Web 2.0, and it is usually really good news for those of us with such high hopes for the new Internet. One has to take a little pause at news like this though, especially those of us [...]

Now I have found the perfect Web site! This is so Web 2.0 it may just change the way we think about our attics, garages and storage spaces forever. Junkdepot has created the eBay for die hard pack rats (or their spouses). We ran across this site and just had to announce this new venue to the world.
Junkdepot is essentially a clean and simple site to get rid of junk you don't want. As far as selling your items, [...]

Amazon and TiVo running to grab some of the Internet video download market.
Today Amazon.com announced the launch of a new service that allows users to watch video purchased online via their TiVo set-top boxes. Announced last month as "Amazon Unbox in Tivo", this service provides the Unbox downloads to 1.5 million TiVo subscribers. Just the other day I was wondering what all the TiVo owners were going to do with worthless TiVo's and now we have the answer!
TiVo [...]

Rollback prices! Maybe we rolled too far!
Mobile phone firm Bharti Enterprises is aiming to start a chain of retail stores in India with US based Wal-Mart, and is reported to be prepared to invest $2.5 Billion dollars by 2015. Bharti Enterprises owns India's largest private phone firm and intends to open stores in cities with a population of more than one million. India's rapidly growing middle class estimated at 1.1 billion spends $300 billion dollars on retail shopping, according to [...]