“This past March, researcher eMarketer ranked the top 25 companies in online retail. First place, not surprisingly, was Amazon, which scored over $79 billion in e-commerce sales last year. Walmart came in second place — at $13.5 billion. That’s not a gap; it’s a chasm.” Will Wal-Mart’s $3 billion purchase of Jet make a difference? For that kind of money, it better. (Wal-Mart is still immense offline.) From Wired: Walmart’s $3 Billion Jet.com Buy Still Leaves It Way Behind. (After seeing the immense size and scope of that jungle in Brazil this week, I can totally see why they named it after Amazon.)