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Walmart going to acquire Flipkart American retailer Walmart along with Google’s parent company Alphabet are expected to acquire 70-75 percent stake in the Indian e-commerce business and are likely to announce the deal on Wednesday. Global retail titan Walmart will likely announce on Wednesday that it would buy 70-75 percent of online retailer Flipkart for about USD 15 billion. Walmart will announce the investment in Flipkart in partnership with tech giant Google, setting the stage for an American business war against Amazon.com Inc in the world’s second most populous nation. The deal will likely value Flipkart at USD 20 billion. Walmart will also likely invest USD 2 billion directly by infusing fresh equity in the Bengaluru-based company founded by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal (unrelated) in October 2007. As part of the deal, co-founder and executive chairman Sachin Bansal will likely exit completely, selling his 5.2 percent stake. Flipkart’s existing sharehold...

OnePlus is releasing an Avengers-themed OnePlus 6 in India OnePlus has confirmed that it's partnering with Marvel on an Avengers-themed edition of the upcoming OnePlus 6. The phone will likely be exclusive to the Indian market, as was the case with last year's Star Wars-branded OnePlus 5T. “OnePlus’ association with Marvel Studios is a manifestation of the enduring love and support they have garnered from its respective community over the years with a purpose to go beyond the ordinary and achieve groundbreaking innovations in mobile technology only to create the best user experiences,” OnePlus said in a statement obtained by Android Central, noting that the deal “marks a step towards strengthening our association with Disney India.” There aren't any pictures of the Avengers edition yet, because the OnePlus 6 itself hasn't been announced. Despite this, we do know that it'll have a notch and be powered by a Snapdragon 845 processor, so a formal unve...

What happened to Despacito?? Luis Fonsi’s record-breaking video for “Despacito” was temporarily deleted from YouTube after a small number of high profile Vevo accounts were hacked. Just five days after it was announced that the video, which also features Daddy Yankee, had reached the remarkable milestone of becoming the first YouTube video in history to reach 5 billion views, it disappeared. The name of the songs were replaced by the words “Hacked by Prosox & Kuroi’sh,” with the words “Free Palestine” posted underneath them, according to The BBC. Other impacted videos read like a who’s who of pop stars, including Taylor Swift, Drake and Katy Petty. What have happened A still on the video showed several masked figures aiming guns at the camera, which is not a scene from the “Despacito” video. When fans attempt to press play, it said the video was unavailable. The video has since been reinstated and has the same number of views as before. Popularity and views o...

Salman Khan gets 5 yrs jail in blackbuck poaching case. A Jodhpur court held actor Salman Khan guilty in a 1998 blackbuck poaching case and sentenced the actor to five years simple imprisonment. A penalty of Rs 10,000 has been levied too.  The court earlier acquitted fellow actors Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Neelam and Sonali Bendre, who were named co-accused.          However, the prosecution said that it is unlikely that Salman will get bail today. Speaking to News18, the prosecution lawyer said the legal team will have to work at a lightning speed if they want to ensure that the actor does not spend a night in the Jodhpur Central Jail. However, it is unlikely that Salman's legal team will be able to get a stay on the order and also manage to get bail for the actor in a couple of hours. The Case The conviction of the actor came after 20 years of legal proceedings. The actor was charged with killing two blackbucks in Bhagoda ki Dhani in Kankani village...

Australia Ball-Tampering scandal. What he does.. and his punishment. The message came through loud and clear late yesterday from Cricket Australia: we will not tolerate this. A one-year ban from domestic and international cricket for captain Steve Smith and David Warner, and nine months for Cameron Bancroft. Recently in 2016 If you use the indiscretions of cricketers in recent years as precedent, Cricket Australia seems to have imposed penalties far greater than any offending cricketer has suffered in the past. In 2016, footage emerged of Faf du Plessis using a mint to help shine the ball after South Africa's crushing win over Australia in Hobart. The ICC charged him with ball tampering. Du Plessis maintained his innocence and even appealed, but the South African skipper had three demerit points on his record. What he says.... “To all of my teammates, fans of cricket all over the world and to all Australians who are disappointed and ang...