Wal-Mart Pulls Plug on Movies via the Web
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Wal-Mart said it had ended the business because Hewlett-Packard, a chief technology partner, had decided to discontinue essential infrastructure for the service.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  said on  Thursday it was phasing out its layaway program because of  declining use and increasing costs, and was expanding other  financing options instead.
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Quiet death Visitors to Wal-Mart's video download site are being greeted with the message "The Wal-Mart Video Downloads Service closed on 12/21/07" after the retail giant quietly canned the service because "Hewlett Packard discontinued the technology that powered it".â¦
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  on Tuesday  introduced a test version of its new video download service,  making it the first major retailer to offer such a service with  the backing of all of Hollywood's big studios.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc on Friday said it plans to exclusively back the Blu-ray high definition movie format, the latest blow to the rival HD DVD camp backed by Toshiba Corp.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has launched its long-awaited online movie download store, entering a market that has yet to catch on with consumers but is expected to grow rapidly
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc's  Canadian unit has discontinued business with toymaker Lego Group after disagreeing on pricing after a rise in the Canadian dollar, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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One of the Web's most popular file-sharing sites has shut down less than a week after Hollywood announced a flurry of lawsuits against operators of such Internet servers.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , the world&#39;s biggest retailer, suffered another blow to its star status on Wednesday when a leading US investment bank downgraded the company&#39;s stock.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  said on  Monday it will drop prices this week on more than 16,000  products across its stores as the world&#39;s largest retailer  tries to reinvigorate sales for the back-to-school shopping  season.
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National discount retailer Wal-Mart announced Friday that it had decided to only sell Sony's Blu-ray hi-definition movie discs, and will phase out Toshiba's competing HD-DVD formatted discs over the next several months.
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In a win for Blu-ray and a loss for consumer choice, Netflix said Monday it will no longer be stocking new HD DVD movies for its subscribers to rent.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc on Friday abandoned the flailing HD DVD format, potentially ending a war over next-generation DVDs as it joined Best Buy and Netflix in supporting rival Blu-ray technology.
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Following in the footsteps of Netflix and Best Buy publicly siding with Blu-ray in the next-generation DVD format war, Wal-Mart announced Friday it will no longer be stocking HD DVD players or movies by June.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Friday said it   was not trying to dissuade movie studios from working with   other forms of distribution, such as Apple Computer Inc.'s   download service.
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By David Lieberman  NEW YORK -- Tiny retailers usually tremble when Wal-Mart invades their turf. Not CinemaNow CEO Curt Marvis.    For eight years he has offered people with high-speed Internet connections movies and TV shows to buy and download from his website.
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InfoWorld - Sears Holdings has taken part of its Managemyhome.com Web site offline following revelations that the site was making customers' purchasing histories publicly available.