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Walmart.com Lets You Pay With Cash When Shopping Online

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 26 at 3:00 am PT

Walmart.com is launching today “Pay with Cash,” a new feature that enables users to place orders online and then pay for them at a nearby Walmart.

Surprise! Walmart’s Cloud Movie Service Is Pretty Good!

Peter Kafka in Media on April 20 at 5:37 am PT

“Disc to digital” still doesn’t make much sense as a concept — who wants to drive to Walmart and pay to put their movies in the cloud? But if you do want to do that, it works very well.

Walmart’s Disc-to-Digital Hard Sell Will Be a Hard Sell

Peter Kafka in Media on March 13 at 8:19 pm PT

Walmart will move your movies to the cloud, if you bring your discs to their stores and pay up. But it won’t work with Disney films, Android machines or iOS downloads. Interested?

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Retailers Join Payment Chase

Robin Sidel, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Commerce on March 1 at 4:20 pm PT

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target Corp. are among roughly two dozen retailers working together to develop a mobile-payments system to compete with similar products from Google Inc. and big cellphone companies, according to people with direct knowledge of the project.

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Wal-Mart Ups Stake in China E-Commerce

Laurie Burkitt, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 20 at 6:17 am PT

Online shopping in China is booming.

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.

Zozi Gets Cozy With Celebrities to Separate Itself From the Groupon Clones

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 24 at 9:00 am PT

After slogging it out for two years in the daily deals business and facing competition from Groupon and hundreds of clones, Zozi believes it has started to find its niche.

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Wal-Mart Acquires Small Mobile Agency to Beef Up Tech Team

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 4 at 10:08 am PT

Wal-Mart’s technology division, @WalmartLabs, has acquired Small Society, a mobile agency in Portland, Ore. In a blog post, Wal-Mart said the company will join another acquisition it made in the Northwest, and both will work closely with its Silicon Valley offices. Small Society has developed apps for large organizations, including the Democratic National Committee, Zipcar and Starbucks. Terms were not disclosed.