Tech Talk: Walmart, Microsoft link up on cloud technology in battle against Amazon

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Walmart has entgered into a five-year agreement with Microsoft in an attempt to make shopping quicker and easier for customers. The agreement pairs Amazon’s largest retail rival with its closest challenger in cloud computing.(MONTCO.Today file photo)

Retail giant Walmart signed a deal to use Microsoft’s cloud and artificial intelligence technology on Tuesday, deepening a strategic partnership between two of Amazon’s major rivals.

Walmart said the five-year agreement is designed to leverage the full range of Microsoft’s cloud solutions in order to make shopping quicker and easier for customers, writes Sam Meredith at CNBC.com.

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The Bentonville Arkansas-based company plans to boost its online presence and defend itself from Amazon’s rapidly growing retail ambitions.

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