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Walmart unveiled a “disc-to-digital” service that lets you buy online access to movies you’ve already purchased on DVD or Blu-ray. Starting April 16th you can take your discs to a Walmart and pay $2 to access a standard definition copy of your movie or $5 for an HD version. If you’ve always wanted to be able to watch any movie you own on any device you own, this is the service for you. In other news, Yahoo! filed a lawsuit against Facebook for patent infringement. Yahoo! claims that Facebook is infringing on 10 individual patents. Not surprisingly, Facebook disagrees. By the way, this is not a new trick for Yahoo! If you remember, it sued Google in the run up to its IPO, which yielded Yahoo a pretty nice chunk of Google’s pre-IPO shares. As you know, those share turned into real money. Is Yahoo! trying it again? You be the judge.
About Shelly Palmer
Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with AI strategy, implementation and governance, as well as technology, media and marketing. Named one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices in Technology, he is a bestselling author, covers tech and business for Fox 5’s Good Day New York, is a regular commentator on CNN, and writes the popular daily business blog Think About This. Follow @shellypalmer or visit shellypalmer.com.