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The American shop giant Walmart wants to have its operations to go completely carbon-neutral by 2040. The group also wants to do more to help the environment. Walmart, for example, has launched initiatives to restore large areas of land and sea by 2030.

American president Donald Trump announced at a press conference at the White House on Saturday that he was behind the plan for a deal between Oracle and TikTok-owner ByteDance. Earlier this week, Trump said he expected the deal to go away. Because of the agreement, the introduction of an American ban on the app, which would enter into force on Sunday, has been postponed by a week.

Information and data provider RELX takes over the English SciBite. This company provides data analysis services, scientific services, and literature analysis to firms in industries that have a lot of research and development in the pharmaceutical industry. Financial details were not released, but initiates say that RELX put down about £ 65 million. On balance, this amounts to more than EUR 72.5...

In the Atlantic Ocean, far more minuscule plastic particles are floating than has been assumed so far, according to new research. The findings would explain where the plastic that has landed in the sea over the past decades and then ‘disappeared’.

Software company Oracle is also reported to be interested in a takeover of TikTok video app. Bloomberg News Agency reports, based on insider information, that the US company software developer is considering making an offer on the Chinese app, which has recently been heavily under attack in the United States. With that bid, Oracle would like, among other things, to compete with Microsoft.

Google mother Alphabet has entered into an agreement with ADT to develop smart-home security products for $ 450 million. It thus acquired a 6.6% stake in ADT. The security company will incorporate Google’s hardware into its products.

It is as strange as it sounds: the largest oil company that is a very fundamental to the entire civilization superseded by company that makes nothing more than expensive toys.

TikTok moves responsibility for privacy regulators in Europe from America to Dublin. The surveillance of the privacy of users in the European Economic Zone (EEA) and Switzerland is no longer done from afar, but in the area itself. That is the biggest change in the details of the app update today.