Amazon improves position in music retail market in USA
Apple iTunes continues to remain the largest music seller in the US market.
Amazon has managed to climb one position to number 4 with some help from their own online media store Amazon MP3.
Wal-Mart is at the second spot and the retailing giant has failed to take back [...]
Wall Street Journal: AC/DC to launch new album through Wal-Mart
The Wall Street Journal has reported that the music group AC/DC is going to launch their new album exclusively though Wal-Mart Stores.
This new album is expected to be launched this coming fall.
Wal-Mart is yet to comment on this latest rumor in the market.
This new [...]
Yahoo to sell advertising on Wal-Mart and CBS sites
Yahoo is under intense pressure from billionaire investor Carl Icahn who wants to replace the company board and signup a deal with Microsoft.
The company has been rather aggressive in signing up new deals to improve their financial position to avoid the confrontation with Icahn.
Yahoo has now announced [...]
Wal-Mart gets into online classifieds services
Wal-Mart is taking on Craigslist and eBay Kijiji with the launch of their online classified advertising site.
This new service is being managed through Oodle.com.
Walmart.com spokesman Ravi Jariwala spoke about this new initiative: “This free, community-based resource allows customers to buy and sell items locally, find local jobs and learn [...]
Wal-Mart pushes Blu-Ray drives to customers
US based retailing giant Wal-Mart has decided that they are going to make the Blu-Ray player more popular amongst the Americans.
Since the format war is now over with the exit of Toshiba from this industry, they now have the clear winner to promote in their stores.
The company said that during [...]
HP launches environment friendly HP DeskJet D2545 Printer
Hewlett Packard has announced the launch of their new environment friend product HP DeskJet D2545 Printer.
The company claims that this printer is made almost entirely out of recycled plastic.
As much as 83% of the printer’s total plastic weight is recycled material.
This printer also uses their HP 60 ink [...]
Apple iTunes: Largest music retailer in USA!
Apple has now officially said that their iTunes digital media store has now become the largest music retailer in the USA.
This is very impressive considering their entire sales are digital and they have no retail stores offering music on sale.
Apple has now overtaken Wal-Mart to become the top music [...]
Wal-Mart stops selling gPC in stores
US based retailing giant Wal-mart has said that they are no longer offering the Everex’s gPC Linux desktop in its stores.
The company continues to sell it through their web based service.
Wal-mart gave the reason for the discontinuation: “This really wasn’t what our customers were looking for.”
Incidentally, Wal-Mart had earlier said [...]
Wal-Mart says tata to HD DVD format
More bad news for Toshiba as retailing giant Wal-Mart has now said that they would soon stop offering HD DVD movies through their retail stores.
The company would now exclusively offer Blu-Ray format media which competes with the Toshiba’s HD DVD format.
Wal-Mart has stated that they would start phasing out [...]
Dell to close down all their U.S. kiosks
Dell has been working hard to improve their presence in the US retail market. The company has however now announced that they are now going to close down all of its 140 U.S. kiosks.
These kiosks were launched in 2002 and were used to showcase their computing products. Dell [...]
