Ashton Kutcher, Wal-Mart go toe-to-toe on Twitter Wal-Mart got into a Twitter spat with Ashton Kutcher this week, with the actor bashing Wal-Mart for not paying its workers enough. Wal-Mart fired off repeated messages rebutting the celebrity's comments, but drew further criticism from some of Kutcher's 15 million Twitter followers. Salon (11/20)  | Cloud Computing 101: It's a Brave New Virtual World
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