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Wal-Mart Enlists Trio of Heavy Hitters for E-Commerce Expansion

Wal-Mart has changed its logo. It's sprucing up many of its stores with new looks. Now, the world's largest retailer is expanding its online sales channel, adding a trio of carefully selected third-party vendors to its Web site in a bid to increase sales. WalMart Marketplace debuted Monday, offering...

Leaked Ad Shows Xbox Ready to Do the Price Cut Shuffle

The gaming console rumor factory is grinding away again, pushing out shiny new reports of Microsoft's alleged plan to cut the price of its Xbox 360 gaming system by up to $100 in the U.S. The rumors are based on an image purported to be of an advance Target ad sheet with a price of $299.99 for the 1...

Toshiba Finds a Spot at the Blu-ray Lunch Table

If Toshiba's announcement 18 months ago that it was dropping the HD-DVD format was the anticlimatic thud that ended the DVD format wars, Tuesday's announcement by the Japanese technology company that it would join the Blu-ray Disc Association was little more than a dull echo. However, it did settle ...

GM May Trade In Clunky Sales Model if eBay Gamble Works

eBay and General Motors announced Monday that 225 of the carmaker's California dealers would begin selling new cars through the e-commerce powerhouse in what appears to be a limited promotion that could nevertheless presage a more permanent, national approach to selling cars online. Sales will begin...

RadioShack Touches Up Gray Hairs With Rebranding Hoopla

One of the nation's most venerable electronics retailers wants to update its image by calling itself "The Shack" in an upcoming branding campaign, announced Monday. "We have tremendous equity in consumers' minds around cables, parts and batteries, but it's critically important that we help them to u...

File-Sharing Penalties May Be Scrutinized on Constitutional Grounds

The numbers in two recent copyright infringement lawsuits involving downloaded music are enough to get tongues wagging. Is a song really worth $22,500? Or even $80,000? Juries in Massachusetts and Minnesota, respectively, ordered those awards to the recording industry this year in cases involving de...

Verizon Falters on Weak Enterprise Demand

Telecom giant Verizon's second-quarter profits fell 21 percent from the same period last year, but much of the decline was attributable to charge-offs due to previous workforce reductions and deteriorating demand among business customers battered by the global recession, the company reported Monday....

Little Bird to Tell Businesses How to Tweet for Cash

Noting that more and more businesses are using Twitter to communicate with customers, the San Francisco social networking startup has launched a new sub-site to help companies learn strategies to leverage the service to their benefit. Twitter101 provides a quick overview explaining what Twitter is, ...

Bad News for PC Sector Cushioned by Glimmer of Hope

Worldwide PC shipments will fall on a year-over-year basis for the first time in nearly a decade, but all signs still point to a late-year tech sector recovery, according to research firm iSuppli. Shipments will fall 4 percent from 2008 sales, to 287.3 million units, the firm predicted. This is the ...

Blockbuster Widens Online Movie Stream With Samsung Deal

Blockbuster and Samsung announced Tuesday that they are partnering to bring the movie-rental chain's digital streaming library to the electronics giant's televisions, home theater systems and Blu-ray disc players. The service should be available by this fall. The owners of some existing 2009 model t...

Amazon Turns Gears of Internet Tax Wars

More companies are joining in the fight over Internet taxation begun by Amazon.com. Blue Nile and Overstock.com have joined the Web's largest retailer in dropping affiliate programs in North Carolina and Rhode Island, according to numerous press reports. Amazon also reportedly dropped its affiliate ...

IT Poised for Year-End Rally

The free fall in the IT sector may be nearing an end, according to Forrester. While the decline is not yet over, spending should begin to improve as the year wears on, culminating in the beginning of a recovery in the fourth quarter, according to a report by Forrester Vice President and Principal A...

You, Palm Pre, Are No iPhone

Palm's new smartphone, the Pre, is off to a rolling good start and has plenty of room to grow, but it isn't likely to emerge as a solo iPhone killer, said ABI Research analyst Michael Morgan. His assessment comes amid widely reported news accounts of a note from Charter Equity Research estimating sa...

EC Leads Universal Phone Charger Charge

European consumers will be able to cut a few cords from their lives as early as next year, when smartphone manufacturers are expected to begin providing standardized chargers under an agreement announced Monday with the European Commission. The agreement follows a February announcement by the GSM As...

Intel Buddies Up With Nokia in Mobile Device Deal

In what's being hailed as a milestone moment, Intel and Nokia announced they will work together on developing new mobile chipset technologies, as well as new devices to use them. What, exactly, those devices might be or when they might find their way into consumers' hands remains unknown. Neither In...

US Broadband Access Plan Inches Forward

The Federal Communications Commission has closed the first round of comment on its national broadband plan initiative, a requirement of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009. The FCC must deliver a completed plan to Congress by February 2010 showing the way to more widespread broadband ...

EMC’s Data Domain Bid Puts NetApp in Tough Spot, Says Analyst

EMC's all-cash bid to buy Data Domain is going to be hard to beat, according to Stifel Nicolaus analyst Aaron Rakers. EMC's $1.8 billion bid, announced Monday, is worth $30 per share in cash, a 20 percent premium over a previously accepted bid by NetApp of $25 per share. NetApp may increase its bid,...

Google’s E-Book Plans Could Diminish Amazon’s Kindle Flame

Google said Monday that it plans to build an e-book service to make electronic editions of mainstream titles available to consumers -- whether they own a specialized e-book reader or not. The service should roll out by the end of the year, Google spokesperson Gabriel Stricker told the E-Commerce Tim...

Facebook Sitting Pretty With $200M Investment

One figure that's drawn much attention in Facebook's $200 million investment deal with Moscow-based Digital Sky Technologies announced Tuesday is the implied valuation of the privately held social networking company: $10 billion. While impressive, the number is off a third from the $15 billion figur...

Scribd Gives Authors a Place to Peddle Their Words

Scribd.com, the online document-sharing site, plunged into the world of e-commerce Monday with a store designed to help both established publishers and independent authors make sales. The Scribd Store allows content creators to set prices and digital rights for their works and follows closely on arr...

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