Retailers set sights on Facebook, Google ad revenue
Retailers ranging from Target and Walmart to grocers such as Tesco are working aggressively to attract big advertisers to their websites.
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Amazon rivals, Walmart and Microsoft, partner up through cloud
Retail giant Walmart has entered into a strategic partnership with Microsoft for wider use of cloud and artificial intelligence technology.
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Former Microsoft executive joins LiveTiles to spearhead US operations
Australia's LiveTiles has expanded its operations to the US, appointing former Microsoft executive, Doug Caywood as vice president central USA.
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Juniper Networks taps new security CTO
Former Walmart CISO Walker replaces Hoff
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Walmart to boost its e-commerce investment in China
China's e-commerce market hasn't been easy for Walmart to crack, but the U.S. shopping giant isn't giving up. The company is investing even more in its e-commerce operations there, by taking full control of a Chinese online retailer.
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Amazon Prime sale busts Black Friday record - LOTR, TVs and robots snaffled up
Online shoppers on Wednesday ordered more than 34 million items on Amazon Prime Day, making it a bigger sales day for the retailer than the biggest Black Friday in history.
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Amazon, Walmart go toe-to-toe with Black Friday-like smackdown
Looking for some Black Friday kind of deals in the middle of July? If you are, this is your week.
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CurrentC mobile pay to kick off in a single market mid-year
Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a group of large U.S. merchants, said Monday it expects to launch an early version of its CurrentC mobile payment app mid-year in an unnamed, mid-sized market.
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UPDATED - One in three companies not prepared for breaches: RSA
Security firm RSA has released the results of its global breach readiness survey covering 30 countries.
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H-1B cap is reached with 'high number' of visa requests
The H-1B cap has been quickly reached, the U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Service said Tuesday. The agency said it received a "high number" of visa petitions, but did not have a final count.
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Apple's $850M solar plant rockets it to first place among U.S. corporations
Apple over the next year or so is expected to surpass Walmart as the largest corporate user of solar power.
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Walmart slashes iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus prices
The new Apple iPhone 6 Plus phablet was nowhere to be found among all the blockbuster Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals last month, but <a href="http://www.walmart.com/cp/iPhone-6/1228448?wmlspartner=TnL5HPStwNw&sourceid=30182817552573327969&oid=183959.1&u1=skim14610X714040X4231bc0f46c307c3f85af48283353e23&affillinktype=10&veh=aff">Walmart</a> has surprised this week by announcing a deep discount on the smartphones through February.
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Getting in customers' faces
Retailers love thinking about how they can use IT analytics of social media to get close to their customers. But when a retailer breaks through the invisible social media wall and reacts to an online post with a very personal in-store interaction, it may not reap the desired increased-sales outcome.
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Black Friday: Newegg axes prices on laptops, desktops, tablets and more
Online retailer <a href="http://www.newegg.com/">Newegg</a> has beaten the Black Friday 2014 rush by revealing deals on brand name laptops, desktops, tablets and other products geared toward both hardcore gamers and everyday tech users.
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Walmart brings Black Friday early to iPhone, iPad fans
Walmart, which already has leaked its Black Friday deals on Apple, Dell, HP and other tech products, just couldn't stand the lull between now and the day after Thanksgiving. So it has started promoting a Pre-Black Friday event for this Friday, Nov. 21, starting at 8am, that will also feature plenty of bargains on electronics.
