Wal-Mart to sell video downloads: reports
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. are set to announce a deal with several major Hollywood studios that would allow the retailer to sell digital movies and television shows on its Web site, according to media reports on Tuesday.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  is  considering acquisitions in its home market as it seeks to open  smaller stores and limit its reliance on giant supercenters for  growth, the Financial Times reported in its online edition.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT.N on   Friday said it was not trying to dissuade movie studios from   working with other forms of distribution, such as Apple   Computer Inc.'s AAPL.O iTunes download service.
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Dell Inc.  plans to start selling personal computers at 3,500 Wal-Mart  stores in the United States and Canada as of June 10, launching a major drive to sell through retailers, the companies said on Thursday.
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Wal-Mart launches video download service to rival Apple    LOS ANGELES, Feb.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world&#39;s largest retailer, said Saturday it expects a 0.7 percent increase in November sales at its US stores open at least one year, down from a forecast of 2 percent to 4 percent a week ago.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.,  already the nation's top seller of DVDs, said Tuesday that it  has become the first major retailer to offer a digital download  service that will feature movies from all the major studios.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the  world&#39;s largest retailer, said on Tuesday that it has seen  strong results from its service that allows customers to order  products on its Web site and have them shipped to a local  Wal-Mart store for free.
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Wal-Mart closes its video downloading service less than a year after it started selling films online.
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SAN FRANCISCO/BOSTON  - Dell Inc.  said on  Thursday it plans to start selling personal computers through  Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  in North America next month,  breaking from a 23-year model of direct sales as it tries to  rekindle business.
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Toshiba increasingly isolated Wal-Mart has apparently decided to follow Best Buy and Netflix and only offer its customers Blu-ray Disc products in future.â¦
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Apple Computer Inc. said  it will begin selling movie downloads from Walt Disney Co.'s film
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced Thursday that it expects its third quarter earnings to be at the high end of its forecast of 52 to 54 cents per share.
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(InfoWorld) - Dell will begin selling two models of its desktop PCs at Wal-Mart Stores on June 10, fulfilling a series ofÂ recent hints from CEO Michael DellÂ that the company wouldÂ move beyond the direct sales modelÂ that once made it the world's largest PC vendor. Wal-Mart will sell the desktops for less than $700 each in its thousands of stores located in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, according to a Wal-Mart statement issued Thursday. The store also said it expected to offer additional Dell PC models in its Sam's Club and Wal-Mart Canada stores, but did not provide model names or dates. The Dimension Multimedia Desktop is the first model to reach Wal-Mart shelves, chosen as a good match for shoppers' demands for value pricing and proven technology, according to a statement by Gary Severson, Wal-Mart's senior vice president for entertainment and electronics. Wal-Mart already sells desktop PCs from Hewlett-Packard, Acer, and Gateway, as well as notebooks from HP, Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba, Sony, Asus, and several smaller vendors. The store also sells monitors, PDAs (personal digital assistants), and peripherals. The strategy marks a major change in how Dell sells computers. Until now, the company has taken orders over the phone or via its Web site, allowed customers to choose their own specifications and then assembled a custom-built PC for each user. That approach allowed Dell to cut its storage and logistic costs far below its competitors, undercut their prices and win new market share. But the direct-sales business model is no longer such an advantage, since competing PC vendors say they have learned their lesson and trimmed their own costs. And critics note that buyers in developing countries don't trust their postal systems enough to purchase expensive PCs through the mail. "Customers want more and new ways to buy our products and we plan on meeting their needs on a global level. Offering Dell Dimensions in Wal-Mart is a great example of this approach," said Dell spokesman Dwayne Cox in an e-mailed statement. "While we can't get into specifics, in the coming quarters there will be additional activity in support of this move into global retail. Today's announcement with Wal-Mart represents our first step. Stay tuned," he added. Dell fell behind rival HPÂ in 2006 in PC sales, and has struggled with a series of poor earnings reports and lawsuits. In an attempt to reverse those results,Â Michael Dell returned to his job as CEOÂ in January, and immediately wrote a series of corporate memos pledging broad changes in the company. Now he has acted on those words. Â
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has closed an online movie download service it launched less than a year ago.
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Wal-Mart, the largest U.S. retailer, on Friday said it would phase out the sales of HD DVD offerings and exclusively offer high-definition Blu-ray hardware and DVDs by the middle of this year.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Friday  denied it was not trying to dissuade movie studios from working  with other forms of distribution, such as Apple Computer Inc.'s  iTunes download service.