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Fake Amazon deal offering ‘£3’ Tefal set circulating on Facebook

Posts falsely claiming that Amazon are offering large sets of Tefal cookware for £3 due to the company closing three warehouses in the UK have been shared widely on social media. 

The posts, which all use identical wording, say: “There are 3 amazon warehouses closing in the UK!

“Due to this, the management has decided to sell off a set of tefal cookware for £3!”

The post then encourages social media users to follow a link in the comments in order to purchase the set of cookware. 

A spokesperson for Amazon UK told Full Fact that the offer advertised in these posts is not genuine. They added that while the retailer did announce in January that three existing UK warehouses would be closing, two new ones were also planned. 

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“The UK Is Clearly Closed For Business”: Microsoft’s Billion Dollar Video Game Deal Blocked

Microsoft is currently the second largest company in the world according to current statistics published by Global Finance, but this hasn’t stopped its billion-dollar deal to buy the video game company Activision Blizzard from being blocked in the UK.

The UK government has issued a press release stating that Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion (£55 billion) takeover has been obstructed – a deal that would have seen the company acquire some of the hottest and most in-demand games such as Call of Duty, Overwatch, Candy Crush and World of Warcraft. 

Alas, this deal has been blocked in the UK by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) resulting in significant frustration from both Microsoft and Activision who have both hit out saying they will appeal this verdict.

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Jio Platform DEAL: Jio Platforms bags Rs 350 crore deal to run National Informatics Centre’s cloud services

Jio Platforms has bagged a Rs 350-crore contract to manage and enhance the cloud services of the government’s National Informatics Centre (NIC), sources told ET.

The Reliance Industries Group firm has been selected to enhance NIC national cloud services and will be deployed at the National Data Centre in Delhi, Pune and Bhubaneswar. NIC is the government’s technology backbone. Jio’s contract includes five years of onsite maintenance.

“Jio has won the tender and has started working on it,” a source from Jio told ET. “We are starting with managing their cloud services in Bhubaneswar and Hyderabad. NIC Services Inc. (NICSI) had requested proposals from Indian cloud partners for managing NIC cloud solutions under Meghraj 2.0.”

“They sought a system integrator for enhancing…


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