Report: Wal-Mart aims to grow global e-commerce business

Bentonville, Ark. Wal-Mart Stores wants to boost its international e-commerce expansion. The company is currently looking for staff, talking to vendors and mapping out its approach.

The initiative will employ the reach and resources of the world's biggest retailer to see if it can capture a greater share of the billions of dollars that are being spent online annually, an amount that has been growing, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Wal-Mart told the publication that it wants to mix the best of what is already offered with new elements that could allow the company to sell from the United States into overseas markets and use its presence in other countries as a springboard for online sales.