Facebook and Wal-Mart Join Forces 127
Jeremiah Cornelius writes "Wal-Mart — the retail king of Big Data analytics — will be meeting Mark Zuckerberg for two days in Bentonville, to 'deepen' their relationship with Facebook. The CEO-level strategy summit is intended to bolster the relationship between the world's No. 1 social network and the world's largest retailer. Wal-Mart has been left in the dust online by the behemoth Amazon. An alliance may be poised to challenge this dominance, particularly in light of Amazon's planned foray into same-day delivery nationwide. The companies share James Breyer, who sits on the boards of both Facebook and Wal-Mart. Adding another angle to this, Yahoo's new CEO, Marissa Mayer, was elected to Wal-Mart's board in early June, while she was still at Google. Earlier this month, Facebook and Yahoo settled a patent dispute and announced plans to form another 'strategic alliance' involving advertising and distribution. The implications for online privacy in this series of relationships are uncertain."
proper axis of evil (Score:5, Funny)
Great, at least I can now channel all my negative thougts to one partnership.
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
I believe the location you are looking for is Wall Street.
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
It's in the rather shady part of Hades and they don't like to talk about it.
Re:Wow (Score:2, Funny)
I was unaware that Hades had a Wall Street too. :P
Where else did you think we copied the idea from?
Good thing Satan didn't copyright/patent the thing, or there'd be (*puts on sunglasses*) hell to pay
Re:Note to self (Score:4, Funny)
WalMart Shopping List:
Cucumbers
Condoms
Large Gatorade
Facebook Status:
Single
MSNBC (Score:4, Funny)
soon on Facebook (Score:5, Funny)