Retail heavyweight Wal-Mart said on Thursday that it plans to massively cut greenhouse gas emissions from the life cycle of its products by the end of 2015, describing it as "an effort equivalent to taking more than 3.8 million cars off the road for a year".

Wal-Mart on Monday announced that it will acquire online movie service Vudu for an undisclosed sum. The deal is expected to close in the next several weeks.

Vudu is one of the numerous online movie services competing amongst themselves for very competitive market emerging in the coming years, particularly as home broadband speeds increase.

In a Monday confirmation, retail giant Wal-Mart said that it is buying the online movie service ‘Vudu’; and added that the deal – the financial terms of which remain undisclosed - is likely to materialize in the coming weeks.

After having reaped substantial benefits by attracting hordes of value-conscious customers during the economic downturn, the discount chain Wal-Mart Stores has reported a fall in its domestic market sales during the fourth quarter.

Despite the fact that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported a higher quarterly profit on Thursday, sales at its existing U. S. namesake stores fell by 1.6%.

A DNS attack, just two days before Christmas, has spoiled the holiday shopping plans of many of the online shoppers. Shoppers were unable to access several leading web sites including Amazon. com and Wal-Mart. com.

Mexico's Wal-Mart de Mexico on Friday confirmed a 5.1% rise in same stores sales for the month of October, as compared to the same month last year. An extra Saturday and the fact that the store has managed to keep its prices low even in economically tough times have been credited by the firm as reasons for the rise.

In what can be seen as an attempt to prevent Amazon from monopolizing the sales of the Palm Pre, the world's largest supermarket Walmart has undercut the Amazon offer for the Pre with a $20 discount!

While the online retailer is selling the Pre for $100, Walmart is now offering the smartphone for $80 on a two year contract with Sprint. 

President Barack Obama’s ongoing endeavors towards the revamping of the healthcare system to provide near-universal coverage to Americans, has met the approval of the country’s biggest private employer - Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

With its focus on expansions and renovations, discounter Wal-Mart intends opening 150 new or expanded namesake stores in the US in 2009, for which the company to create nearly 22,000 jobs at newer positions - including a number of cashiers, store managers, pharmacists and stock clerks.