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Facebook and Wal-Mart Join Forces

Posted by Soulskill on from the planning-our-future dept.

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."

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  1. proper axis of evil by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great, at least I can now channel all my negative thougts to one partnership.

  2. Wow by Daetrin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Facebook and Wal-Mart. That's certainly a marriage made in... well, somewhere significant definitely.

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    1. Re:Wow by RKThoadan · · Score: 5, Funny

      I believe the location you are looking for is Wall Street.

    2. Re:Wow by MSojka · · Score: 5, Funny

      I was unaware that Hades had a Wall Street too. :P

      It's in the rather shady part of Hades and they don't like to talk about it.

    3. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · 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

  3. Re:Note to self by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 4, Funny

    WalMart Shopping List:
    Cucumbers
    Condoms
    Large Gatorade

    Facebook Status:
    Single

  4. MSNBC by bradgoodman · · Score: 3, Funny

    This will be the greatest melding of core-comptencies since Microsoft and NBC...

  5. soon on Facebook by bitt3n · · Score: 5, Funny

    'Jane Smith just purchased Herceptin Herpes Medication and KY Jelly at Podunk Walmart [53 People Like This]'

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