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News digest: Flipkart-Walmart deal, Essar Steel, smart TV market, and more

The group may even explore relocating the entire Walmart India operation to Bengaluru in the near future

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1. Walmart, Flipkart work on synergies; merger may result in common leadership

With just the formal signatures pending for a deal with Flipkart, Walmart has begun its search for real estate, mostly in Bengaluru, to have synergies with the e-commerce company headquartered there, sources said. 

The American retail major is looking at shifting some critical divisions such as information technology (IT) and e-commerce to Bengaluru from Walmart India’s Gurugram office. The group may even explore relocating the entire Walmart India operation to Bengaluru in the near future. “If Walmart is spending more than $12 billion on acquiring Flipkart, it only makes sense

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