The nation's largest retailer, whose insatiable appetite for new business has plunged it into auto care, groceries, hair salons, check cashing, flower delivery and music downloads, said yesterday that ...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is turning over its online DVD rental business to Netflix Inc., signaling that the world’s largest retailer couldn’t beat the Internet upstart at its own game. Wal-Mart is ...

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Blu-ray scored a big win in the DVD format battle with Wal-Mart's decision to phase out high-definition DVDs. The news came after Best Buy and the online DVD rental service Netflix also decided to ...

There is one retailer that has the power to call the winner of the protracted Blu-Ray vs. HD DVD fight and that vendor is Wal-Mart. Over the weekend they apparently leaked plans to bring in a massive ...

Thanks to new applications such as VOD and Redbox, the world of DVD sales has been sliding for a while. Rentals are up 8.3 %, but sales are down 13.5% with no real sign of a shift. The latest blow to ...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has decided to exclusively sell high-definition DVDs in the Blu-ray format, dealing what could be a crippling blow to the rival HD DVD technology backed by Toshiba Corp. The move ...

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HOLLYWOOD — Wal-Mart Stores will begin testing a mail-order DVD rental service this month offering online rentailer Netflix its first major competition. Customers of the monthly Wal-Mart DVD Rentals ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday said 1.5 million DVD players sold exclusively at Wal-Mart since early 2006 were being recalled because they can overheat, ...

It’s good or bad news, depending how you look at it. But according to analyst Richard Greenfield, Walmart is “increasing its exposure to consumer electronics, video games and Blu-ray, and reducing ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc has decided to exclusively sell high-definition DVDs in the Blu-Ray format, dealing what could be a crippling blow to the rival HD DVD technology backed by ...