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Walmart purchased Jet.com in 2016 with the usual fanfare that comes from a $3.3 billion corporate purchase. Jet.com was an up-and-coming online company, only a year old, that was trying to get an edge on the retail market by offering an innovative discount system and improving the distribution chain.
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Walmart purchased Jet.com in 2016 with the usual fanfare that comes from a $3.3 billion corporate purchase. Jet.com was an up-and-coming online company, only a year old, that was trying to get an edge on the retail market by offering an innovative discount system and improving the distribution chain.
These billion-dollar assimilations happen all the time in the high-tech industry. The most common scenario is a big high-tech company like Facebook or Amazon buying a startup, but another scenario that is also churning out there in the IT space is the phenomenon of old-school brick-and-mortar companies buying online startups in order to gain a foothold on the future and inject some high-tech juju into their doddering corporate culture.
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