iFive: Walmart Buys Kosmix, MobileMe Revamp Imminent, Samsung Sells HDD Biz And Fights Back With Apple, 1-800 Numbers Go Sexy

1. Wal-Mart just handed over around $300 million for Kosmix, a topic-curated social media platform that’s just six years old. The new firm will join the @WalmartLabs division, trying to build-out the retail giant’s online shopping experience–which is now set to get a big injection of social media thinking, and will probably leverage Kosmix’s smart semantic interpretation code to come up with purchase suggestions 2

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iFive: Walmart Buys Kosmix, MobileMe Revamp Imminent, Samsung Sells HDD Biz And Fights Back With Apple, 1-800 Numbers Go Sexy