The tech world has passed a big milestone, which came and went with relatively little fanfare. After years of gaining ground on Walmart as the world’s largest retailer by revenue, Amazon surpassed it. In its Q4 earnings, it reported full-year 2025 revenue of $717 billion, passing Walmarts $681 billion.
The wait is over for Walmart. The company has just closed its acquisition of TV maker Vizio. The acquisition first made news back in February, but has since been in a holding pattern due to standard federal regulatory approval. Now, Walmart is free to proceed with the all-cash $2.3 billion deal.
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Walmart has recently taken QSR collaborations to new levels It’s new Burger King collaboration grants Walmart+ members a robust 25 percent discount on all food ordered via the Walmart app at any Burger King locations.
A Florida man shot down a Walmart delivery drone after thinking it was spying on him. What are the implications for the future of last-mile local delivery?
Walmart’s virtual showroom feature lets users outfit a room with various items. We examine how this ties in with Walmart’s broader evolution in immersive shopping
Sam’s Club is the latest retailer to integrate technology that expedites or replaces the traditional checkout aisle. The technology – which we’re calling exit tech – is meant to streamline longstanding logistical bottlenecks in retail.
Walmart has revealed that its U.S. advertising division Walmart Connect is expanding access to retail media placement to non-endemic brands and marketplace sellers. We examine strategic implications
Walmart has acquired consumer electronics hardware brand Vizio, bringing the increasingly lauded and once-budget brand – most known for its televisions – under the Walmart umbrella. We examine.
Walmart has stepped up its efforts to advertise its own products – and that of third-party consumer products – using high-traffic inventory throughout its stores. Known as retail media, this area has been picking up over the past decade.
Walmart has announced new AR shopping tools meant to give consumers more confidence in their online purchases. It lets them visualize bulky items in AR, such as furniture. We examine drivers & dynamics.
Walmart has become the latest retailer to join the immersive shopping age. A corollary to the “shoppability” movement that we often cover, this is all about giving shoppers more immersive options to visualize products.
Walmart is jumping on the visual commerce wagon, starting with optics. Last week it acquired optical tech company Memomi to accelerate efforts around virtual eyewear try-ons.
The latest shoppability play comes from Roku, bringing us the long-discussed concept of shopping directly on your television (T-commerce). We examine its latest collaboration with Walmart to make it all happen.
Will a driverless car be rolling up with a parcel of paper towels and Twizzlers in the near future? Possibly. The autonomous future always seems
One week after we examined Walmart’s new retail-as-a-service play, it’s doubling down with a similar service for delivery. Known as GoLocal, it will package up Walmart’s delivery logistics engine for third-party retailers to raise their delivery game.
The latest news from the retail-as-a-service world is that Walmart has joined the competitive fray. It’s spinning out many of its semi-recent retail innovations to enable third parties to raise their retail game.
Walmart has Amazon in its crosshairs. Its latest move came with the recent deal with BigCommerce to boost product libraries and become more of a one stop shopping destination.
Many of us in the local space are familiar with PaperG. Victor Wong launched the San Francisco-based adtech company in 2007 and remains CEO. But
Back in November, I spoke with Matthew Brennan, author of “The Attention Factory.” The book is, thus far at least, the definitive work on TikTok.
