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A Look at Walmart’s Plans for Making Commerce High-Tech (Video)

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 3 at 6:00 am PT

Walmart is typically associated with its everyday low prices, not with technology. But the mega-retailer is trying to change that by building a tech center just south of San Francisco.

Ex-Googlers Raise $5.8 Million to Help Retailers Track Foot Traffic

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on November 3, 2011 at 9:00 am PT

Euclid Elements is hoping to be the Google Analytics of the physical retail world.

Microsoft Opens Colorado Retail Store in Wyoming

John Paczkowski in News on July 13, 2011 at 12:45 pm PT

Lone Tree, Colorado, is not a city in Wyoming, guys.

Time’s Ripe for Apple Execs to Enjoy the Fruits of Their Labor

John Paczkowski in News on November 1, 2010 at 3:15 am PT

With Apple’s shares trading near all-time highs, a few of the company’s top lieutenants are cashing in some of their equity for big paydays. Earlier this month, Bob Mansfield, senior vice president of Macintosh Hardware Engineering, exercised 40,000 stock options with a strike price of $36.54, selling them at $308 apiece to clear $10.8 million.

iPad Sold Out at Many Apple Stores

John Paczkowski in News on May 21, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

Did Apple underestimate the iPad’s early popularity? It certainly seems that way. Amid reports that the device is now outselling the Mac, comes news that iPad supplies are increasingly constrained as Apple prepares for its international launch. A new survey of 50 Apple retail stores found the iPad to be sold out at 74 percent of them.

Munster: Apple Is Selling Every iPad It Can Build

John Paczkowski in Mobile on April 1, 2010 at 6:56 am PT

With Apple no longer promising delivery of new Wi-Fi-only iPad orders on April 3, some analysts are beginning to think that demand for the device may be a bit stronger than their early predictions suggested. Among them: Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster, who said this morning that his initial estimates of 900,000 iPads sold in the June quarter and 2.7 million in calendar year 2010 “may prove to be conservative.”

Apple Has Hired an M&A Specialist? What’s Adobe’s Market Cap, Again?

John Paczkowski in News on January 15, 2010 at 10:14 am PT

Apple made its first acquisition on March 2, 1988, with the purchase of Network Innovations. Since then, it has made just 23 more, including its recent $275 million purchase of Quattro Wireless. Which isn’t all that many for a company with $23 billion in the bank (as a point of comparison, Google has acquired 11 companies in the last 18 months alone). But that may soon change, because Cupertino finally has a dedicated acquisitions specialist, Adrian Perica.

Fitbit Sees How You Run, Walk and Sleep

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on November 3, 2009 at 4:28 pm PT

A tiny $99 tracking device knows when you are walking, running and even sleeping.

Operating Systems Offer New Choices in PC Shopping

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on October 28, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT

Walt Mossberg gives tips on purchasing laptops with the latest pre-installed operating systems in his annual fall computer-buying guide.

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UPS Offers Web-Print Service

Mike Esterl, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 14, 2009 at 1:11 pm PT

After decades of wrestling for dominance in the U.S. shipping industry, United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp. are squaring off on another front: the growing world of online printing. UPS is rolling out marketing Monday to highlight a push into Web-based printing, in which clients can send documents such as business presentations to UPS retail stores via the Internet to have printed copies made. FedEx already offers online printing at its FedEx Office/Kinko’s locations.