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News The supermarket, which is owned by US retail giant Wal-Mart, revealed it is cutting prices in half following announcements from other leading phone networks of price hikes. Supermarket chain ASDA says it... [21 Aug 2008]
Microsoft pumps $100m into Novell Linux deal
News Microsoft and Novell said that customers taking advantage of the partnership include BMW, HSBC Holdings, Southwest Airlines and Wal-Mart. Microsoft on Wednesday extended its existing partnership with... [21 Aug 2008]
Yahoo! vs Icahn: War of words
News president Susan Decker trumpeted new ad partnerships with Wal-Mart Stores and others as Icahn, an activist investor, stepped up pressure on Yahoo! Yahoo! said on Wednesday that deal talks are ongoing... [05 Jun 2008]
Bernard Matthews streamlines order processes
News The company complies with the EDI standard of document interchange, but as a supplier of Wal-Mart-owned ASDA, it has to use that retailer's preferred system - AS2. Poultry products supplier Bernard... [17 Mar 2008]
RFID tags to "revolutionise" UN relief ops?
News Nabarro said he envisions his organisation one day going the way of the military and companies such as Wal-Mart, using RFID chips to track and trace those critical goods. Embedding electronic tags in... [11 Oct 2007]
Dell: Plenty of room to grow in retail and consumer space
News So far Dell has announced retail relationships with Wal-Mart and Sam's Club in the US, Carphone Warehouse in Europe and Bic Camera in Japan. The Wal-Mart experiment has... [11 Sep 2007]
Google, Microsoft doomed to fail?
News Wal-Mart Google and Microsoft could be among the famous high-tech names to disappear from the corporate landscape within the next 20 years if a cycle of how companies die repeats itself. A study of the... [08 Jun 2007]
Dell to sell at Wal-Mart
News Computer maker Dell plans to begin selling desktop PCs in Wal-Mart Stores this weekend, the first move in a major departure from its decades-long sales strategy.... [24 May 2007]
Zune not even close to snatching Apple's crown
News The Zune, meanwhile, captured 12 per cent of the hard-drive-based player market for December, although Current Analysis' study does not include many retail sales outlets, including Wal-Mart Stores and... [05 Jan 2007]
BitTorrent to pimp the silver screen?
News BitTorrent's announcement comes a day after Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest retailer, launched its own movie download service. Even by offering thousands of titles, BitTorrent faces tough... [29 Nov 2006]
Asda weighs in to online shopping war
News The Wal-Mart owned supermarket chain said the new online service will create 1,800 jobs for drivers, back-office staff and people delivering goods to customers' homes. Asda has announced plans to expand... [06 Nov 2006]
Wal-Mart demands double RFID chips with groceries
News RFID pioneer and corporate monolith Wal-Mart is speeding on with its deployment of the track-and-trace technology. The new deployments will all use Gen2 tags, with all... [13 Sep 2006]
Tesco dominates net shopping with £2m loo rolls
News Its nearest rival, the Wal-Mart-owned Asda chain, took 16 per cent, with Sainsbury's following close behind with 14 per cent. Tesco has spread its dominance of UK retail into online shopping and now... [23 Aug 2006]
Microsoft warns Google off enterprise search
News It's the largest gathering that Turner has addressed, and only his second appearance at a Microsoft conference, since joining the company from Wal-Mart 11 months ago. Microsoft is digging in for a fight... [14 Jul 2006]
RFID spills the beans on Samsung Tesco shoppers
News Amongst the growing number of retailers that have taken the RFID route, the US' largest grocery chain Wal-Mart, famously passed a mandate to push its top suppliers to deploy RFID in their supply chain. [04 Jul 2006]
