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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A video download site that had been exposed as a front for the MPAA to catch those who download copyrighted content, as well as those who may have already downloaded it, has been taken offline.
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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.  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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Wal-Mart Stores Inc  quietly  canceled its online video download service less than a year  after the site went live, a company spokeswoman said on  Thursday.
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ONE of the web&#39;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. is ending its loss-generating business in Germany just two months after leaving South Korea in what analysts welcomed as a move to focus resources on expanding in more profitable international markets like China and Latin America.
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A popular peer-to-peer file-sharing website has closed down amid mounting efforts by the movie industry to crack down on online piracy.
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The retreat for Wal-Mart follows the companyâs 2005 decision to abandon efforts to build an online DVD rental service.
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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.
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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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The online movie rental service  operated by Blockbuster Inc was temporarily taken down on  Monday after it experienced a "systems" problem, a company  spokesman said.
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Wal-Mart said Thursday that it plans to stock about 2,800 of its stores with a special Academy Awards section of DVDs including popular titles that many of its consumers may own on VHS. The company is clearing out the last of its inventory of the aging format and spots a new market opportunity.
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PC Magazine - Wal-Mart Stores has shut down "The Hub," its attempt to cash in on the craze for social networking with a MySpace-like clone.
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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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By GARY GENTILE LOS ANGELES - 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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This morning, the US' leading retailer is rolling out what it calls a "beta" of its pay-per-download video service, though the "pay" part is clearly turned on. What immediately differentiates Wal-Mart's Video Downloads Store from its competition - other than undercutting their prices by about 11 cents - is that it features new and recent releases from every major Hollywood studio.