Walmart has announced that it will acquire TV maker Vizio in a deal worth $2.3 billion. The company will also acquire Vizio’s SmartCast OS for TVs as a result of this agreement. This theoretically ...

Walmart has announced it plans to acquire Vizio, the smart TV company, in a deal that's worth $2.3 billion. In addition to the TVs, Walmart wants to use Vizio's SmartCast OS for advertising. Walmart ...

After first being reported last week, Walmart has officially announced that it will buy TV-maker Vizio. In a press release today, Walmart confirms its plan to buy Vizio for $2.3 billion ($11.50 per ...

The SFC is suing Vizio because its SmartCast OS is based on Linux. Linux's source code is protected under the GPL version 2 (GPLv2). Besides the Linux kernel, the other GPL'd and Lesser GPL (LGPL)'d ...

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a non-profit organization that promotes open-source software and defends the free software General Public License (GPL), recently sued major TV vendor Vizio for ...