“Walmart has acquired Portland, Ore.-based Small Society, a mobile application development firm that has created apps for the 2008 Obama campaign, Starbucks, Zipcar, Amazon.com, Whole Foods, Live Nation and others,” Marshall Kirkpatrick reports for RCR U.S. Wireless News.
“It’s one of a number of high-profile recent acquisitions of small startups as Walmart builds out its Mobile Labs with a team of developers,” Kirkpatrick reports. “Walmart believes it can create mobile apps that radically change how shopping both in and outside of stores is experienced.”
Walmart’s Mobile Labs have been bolstered by recent acquisitions of Kosmix, OneRiot and Grabble and its hiring of former Yahoo technical standards community leader Eran Hammer-Lahav, all lead by power-nerds Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer,” Kirkpatrick reports. “About Walmart’s plans for mobile, Hammer-Lahav said the company is ‘focused on building amazing apps for all the major platforms that are not just mobile catalogs or lite versions of the Web store, but change the way customers interact with the brand; from organizing your shopping list based on where the items are in the store you just walked into, to giving you more shopping options while at the store, to highlighting promotions and reviews as you drive through the aisles.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Quick, somebody send crap tablet peddler Jeffie Bozos a new pair of undies!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Quick, somebody call the pro shop and get the word out to Obama!
Obama Golfs for the 90th Time as President
After an hour of hiking, President Obama Monday got down to the serious business at hand, heading out to golf for the second day in his first three days of vacation. He was back on the course at Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
With this one, Obama reaches a new milestone, having gone golfing 90 times in less than three years as president. That’s about three months of golf, given that the excursions generally take about five hours – much of the useful portion of the day.
What’s more, it’s the 32nd time he’s been on the links this year, a record for the president. His 32 outings eclipses the 2010 mark of 30 and is far ahead of his 2009 tally of 28 rounds as president.
And remember, there are still five days left in the year for Obama to pad his new record, which he almost certainly will.
Along for Monday’s round were three of Obama’s Hawaii friends, Mike Ramos, Greg Orme and Bobby Titcomb. The latter, you may remember, was arrested in April in a prostitution sting.
– Keith Koffler, White House Dossier
President Selfish: Obama Spends Christmas Golfing, Marines Can’t Be Home With Family
So, basically, the President ruins the Christmas of some Marines so he can play golf on the military base which causes a complete shut down around the base around Christmas.
President Obama seems to have no class and no empathy for those working around him. Unlike President Bush, who took the secret services’ needs into account, President Obama, his royal wife and the royal family go to Hawaii. This makes the lives difficult of the secret service.
And as the above demonstrates, the Marines in Hawaii and their families are deprived of Christmas, too.
President Obama is President Selfish. Shameful.
– Dr. Melissa Clouthier
President Selfish. Perfect. But, not for much longer. Soon he’ll just be plain old Selfish again.
@ First 2010, Then 2012
You’re a complete idiot.
Obama thinks he’s a king. He’ll find out just how wrong he is this November 6th.
On November 6th, he’ll find out he’s not a king, he’ll find out he was just re-elected President of the United States.
more than a complete idiot… Idiot squared
You lost me at ‘Quick’. What are you rambling about?
Do you think the not Obama (McCain/Palin) option was the lesser of two evils?
In other news, Melissa Clouthier pulls head out of a$$…
President Wilson played 1200 rounds of golf while winning World War I, Eisenhower 800 (2 per week) after winning World War II.
And George W. Bush spent 487 days at Camp David and 490 days at the ranch in Crawford during his presidency.
Yeah, dummy, he was working in his offices in those locations.
You don’t have to be in the White House to work, but it’s rather difficult to do much useful work on the golf course where President Selfish likes to go very, very often.
You guys don’t think that wherever the president is, no matter who is president, that there aren’t people within feet of him that have everything he needs to do work?
Obama’s Hawaii vacation cost taxpayers about $5 million for the aircraft transport and security, etc.
GB trips to Texas and Camp David were not nearly so expensive.
“Along for Monday’s round were three of Obama’s Hawaii friends, Mike Ramos, Greg Orme and Bobby Titcomb.”
From April 7, 2011 Honolulu Star Advertiser newspaper web site:
“A regular Hawaii golfing buddy and Punahou School friend of President Barack Obama was among four people arrested Monday night during a prostitution sting operation in Kakaako by Honolulu police.
Waialua resident Robert Richard “Bobby” Titcomb, 49, was arrested at South and Pohukaina streets at 9:40 p.m. Monday.
Titcomb was charged with prostitution and released after posting $500 bail at 11 p.m. The offense is a petty misdemeanor that carries a $500 fine. People convicted may also face probation, community service or up to 30 days in jail.”
Obama hangs with classy company when he is on vacation.
Sooo…because Obama’s family is from a more distant state, he shouldn’t get to spend his vacation there?
This is a post about iOS developers getting acquired by Walmart, with a minor reference to one of their prior customers, and you post some inane political nonsense (low grade stuff, at that) — ?
Ok. I’m calling it: troll alert. Trolley trolley troll.
an aside, though, Bush took many extensive vacations while 2 wars (1 unnecessary) were going on under his command, and the people pounding on Obama here didn’t say jack. Like many have noted, it’s not the vacation or (pick your favorite beef you have), it’s the skin color. Cut the crap and just admit it, trolls.
… or do you just copy. Here’s a part of a comment from just below one of your quotes. “So Obama spend Christmas EVE morning golfing, and spent the night with his family. Christmas day he spent in church on a marine base, and Christmas evening with Marines and their families. So your blog is wrong in its facts.”
Furthermore, those Marines are volunteers, not draftees. If they don’t like the work, they need not re-up. I worked more holidays than not while in the private sector. It’s part of “being employed”.
Let’s see…help me with the math here.
3 X 52 X 2 = 312.
That’s how many weekend days (Saturdays and Sundays) there have been in the three years since Obama took office.
Soooo…Obama has used 28.8% of his days off to go golfing….not that the President ever *really* gets a day off. I’m sure there were at least a couple dozen phone calls and emails dealt with during each of those outings.
Still…what’s the problem?
Oh, that’s RIGHT….you’ve been watching Fox News again, and listening to Rush Limbaugh’s moronic rantings.
OK, never mind. I’ll stop wasting time responding to you, since your brainwashing is obviously complete.
If the Republicans nominate Santorum, Obama could win.
At least Bachman came to her senses.
The golf stuff is just political talking points, barbs cynically employed by GOP front-runner Mitt Romney to attract more droolers while disguising the emptiness inside his suit.
Although—if Romney were actually elected, then this star-spangled elephant “First 2010, Then 2012” would go away, after a few days of gloating.
And on the ACTUAL subject of the article…
Wal-mart seems to be slowly getting interested in mobile apps. Who would have thunk it…?
The question is whether they can actually think of creative ways to use apps for their stores.
Somehow I just can’t envision your typical Wal-Mart shopper walking up and down aisles with an iPad.
You should visit your optometrist, or who ever you see for envision problems. You need to get past the iAm special because I use iStuff.
By the way, as an experiment, I have a feeling that this article completely succeeded. It is enough to put “Obama” in a headline of the article and you can virtually guarantee that the discussion underneath will have absolutely nothing to do with the actual subject, but will be a domestic (i.e. American) political mud slinging.
Nicely done, MDN; nicely done, folks… (the bar was rather low, though, since there’s this “F10t12” character carefully monitoring articles and discussions for any trace of American politics and the nano-second he sees even a hint of some, he locks, loads and fires…)
Exactly, Predrag. At certain times of the year, page hits drop and so does revenue. Of course planting certain key words revs up the traffic.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
I golfed yesterday.