Recently, WalMart announced that it had agreed to acquire U.S. e-commerce company Jet.com for $3 billion in cash and $300 million of Walmart’s shares, which will be paid over time. This large acquisition, aimed at augmenting Walmart’s e-commerce initiatives, indicates that the company is serious about giving Amazon tough competition in online retailing. The transaction is interesting in a number of ways. Walmart and Jet will continue to maintain their distinct brands and websites. Indeed, each business targets different consumer segments. More importantly, through this acquisition Walmart will be able to tap into Jet’s innovative leadership team to build its own e-commerce segment. (Read more on this below.) Walmart’s e-commerce growth is slowing  (to around 7% growth in sales for Q1 FY 17) and the company knows that “winning in e-commerce” is critical for its business. With the acquisition of Jet.com, Walmart will be able to accelerate its efforts in e-commerce with innovative techniques and will be better equipped to catch up with Amazon in the longer term.

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What makes a good LinkedIn profile? This question was originally answered on Quora by Nelson Wang.

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The Collatz Conjecture is one of those problems that’s so deceptively simple it’s hard to believe no one has solved it yet.

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As a career software CMO, I have always been frustrated, and indeed embarrassed, by the fact that there is no decent enterprise software for managing the marketing department. While sales, engineering, manufacturing, finance, and support all have managerial systems of record; most marketing departments are managed using some gobbledygook of

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Nearly a half-million cars are being recalled for inadvertently shifting out of gear, and that’s only the half of many woes of the widely vilified automatic transmission from German supplier ZF.

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Democrats and their allies in the corporate media keep emphasizing that Donald Trump is an existential threat to American democracy who is so dangerous that he must be stopped at all costs. Whether or not you think they are exaggerating, there seems to be no limit to their arguments. Cartoon by Ted Rall.

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I have consistently been vocal about the need for diversity and inclusion in our workforce. Whether hiring (and fairly paying) more females or underrepresented minorities, Apple has stepped up to the plate and shown some tremendous progress in their “Diversity and Inclusion” webpage with brand new data.

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