A teen and a senior citizen were among the victims of the Walmart Virginia shooting

Authorities recognized the victims of a mass shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, on Wednesday, ranging in age from a 16-year-old kid to a 70-year-old man.

A shop manager opened fire on coworkers in a break room, killing six people before turning the pistol on himself.

Another big name to Enter Metaverse

• To produce and sell virtual goods Walmart has filed several new trademarks
• The filling patterns reflect the plans to create its cryptocurrency and NFTs.

Facebook, Bumble, Disney and many more along with Walmart plans to claim their corner of the metaverse.

Walmart to install 200 Bitcoin ATMs in its retail stores across US

Walmart American retail giant has decided to install 200 Bitcoin ATMs in its store branches across the country. People visiting the Walmart stores will now be able to insert a banknote in exchange for a paper voucher.

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• Walmart to install 200 ...

Walmart is looking into fake press release regarding Litecoin Partnership

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• The Litecoin Foundation does not have any information regarding the origin of this news
• GlobeNewswire has published a notice to disregard this news

On Monday, Walmart said it is looking into a fake press statement that was...

U.S. ONLINE GROCERY SALES SURPASS $8 BILLION IN NOVEMBER

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• Out of total $8.1 billion, grocery delivery and pickup services accounted for $5.9 billion which is 73 percent of the total

• Another reason behind the growth was also the surge in the number of households who used the services in last month that too by ...

ByteDance GETS SEVEN-DAY EXTENSION OF TikTok SALE ORDER

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• The Trump administration had previously granted a 15-day extension to ByteDance of this executive order issued in the month of August, which would have expired this Friday

• The U.S. President Donald Trump on August 14 had directed the Chinese company to...

TikTok EMPLOYEE WHO SUED US GOVERNMENT WITHDRAWS HIS CASE

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• According to a filing dated November 13, submitted by Patrick Ryan, both the sides were in the favor of dismissing the case with prejudice

• ByteDance, which happens to be the parent company of TikTok has received an extension till November 27 of its dea...

ByteDance ASKS FEDERAL APPEALS COURT TO VACATE TRUMP’S ORDER OF SELLING TikTok's U.S. BUSINESS

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• U.S. President Donald Trump had issued an executive order in August that required ByteDance to sell TikTok's U.S. business by November 12 if a 30-day extension by the CFIUS was not granted to it

• According to the reports, ByteDance has asked the fed...

WALMART SUES U.S. GOVERNMENT TO SETTLE PHARMACIES' ROLE IN OPIOID CRISIS

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• Walmart in the suit says that the U.S. Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration has been making them a scapegoat to divert attention from the agencies' failures to handle the opioids crisis in the country

• Walmart's lawyers said Wa...

END OF THE ROAD FOR TikTok, IF ORACLE DEAL NOT CLOSED WITH U.S. TERMS: STEVEN MNUCHIN

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• Mnuchin said all of the code will have to be in the United States. He further said that Oracle will be responsible for rebuilding the code, sanitizing the code, making sure it’s safe in their cloud, and whether it will satisfy all the US requirements

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TikTok's PARENT COMPANY ByteDance APPLIES FOR CHINESE TECH EXPORT LICENSE TO COMPLETE U.S. DEAL

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• ByteDance submitted an application to Beijing’s municipal commerce bureau and now is waiting for the approval

• While speaking to the reporters on Thursday, spokesman of Chinese commerce ministry Gao Feng said that the application from ByteDance ha...

ByteDance WILL HAVE NO OWNERSHIP IN TikTok GLOBAL: ORACLE

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• Oracle in its statement said upon creation of TikTok Global, Oracle/Walmart will make their investment and the TikTok Global shares will be distributed to their owners, Americans will be the majority and ByteDance will have no ownership in TikTok Global

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ByteDance's TikTok TO OPERATE AS A U.S. COMPANY, TO AVOID BAN

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• ByteDance has decided to place TikTok's headquarters in the U.S. as this move will help TikTok escape President Donald Trump's ban

• Reports state that independent third parties will take the roles of directors of the new company, while ByteDance...

WALMART JOIN FORCES WITH MICROSOFT TO BID FOR TIKTOK

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•       For Walmart this move to join Microsoft is a way of breaking into the technology and media domain

• Tiktok is being pursued by other bidders as well

As the talks for buying Tiktok continues, Walmart...

BELGIAN BOYS LAUNCH NEW SNACKS IN SELECT WALMART STORES

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• In Brooklyn, Belgian Boys retail is famous for bringing Belgian snacks to USA.
• Belgian Boys products have Non-GMO premium ingredients.
• The raw materials to manufacture the snacks offered by Belgian Boys come from Belgium.
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U.S RETAIL COMPANIES HAVE MOVED UP THEIR HOLIDAY PROMOTION SALES SEASON

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• U.S retail companies have moved up their holiday promotion sales season.
• Due to the uncertainty of the pandemic and social distancing norms, many retailers announced an early holiday season sale.
• Retail brands like Targe...

RELIANCE: THE ONLY INDIAN NAME IN THE LIST OF TOP 100 GLOBAL COMPANIES

According to the 2020 Fortune Global 500 list that was released on August 11, India’s most valuable company led by Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani has made it to the list of top 100 companies in the world. Riding high on some serious investments in its telecom arm Jio Platforms, Reli...

FLIPKART TAKES OVER WALMART INDIA, COMES UP WITH FLIPKART WHOLESALE

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• Flipkart Wholesale will be headed by one of the Flipkart's most experienced employee, Adarsh Menon

• Walmart India CEO Sameer Aggarwal will remain with the company in order to ensure a smooth transition

• At present, Walmart India is o...

WITH JioMart, RELIANCE SET TO BATTLE DIRECTLY WITH AMAZON AND WALMART

After witnessing some historic investments and making it to the list of world's top 10 richest people, Asia’s richest man is now looking forward to rule the e-commerce sector across the globe. With JioMart, Reliance is directly battling with Jeff Bezos’ Amazon and the biggest reta...

E COLI SUSPICION IN GROUND BEEF, BATCHES RECALLED FROM ACROSS THE US

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• The USDA has called the recall a class 1 recall which means that the consumption of this batch of beef can even turn fatal

• Two brands sell the ground beef from the meat producer: The Marketside Butcher and the Thomas Farms