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Nomad Foods has offered around _800m to acquire the Nordic and southern European units of Findus Group. Findus Group is one of Europe's biggest frozen food and seafood companies. Its headquarters are in the UK, where it runs the Young's Seafood business, which sells branded products and also supplies major UK grocers with private label seafood.

Nomad Foods closed a €2.6 billion deal for Iglo Foods on June 1. The move for Findus Group has progressed fast since the takeover of Iglo by Nomad.

On Thursday, Findus Group confirmed that the Nordic unit is also part of the talks, as well as the business in southern Europe.

Yahoo is planning to shut a few of its services including Yahoo Maps and Yahoo Pipes as the service faces intense competition from Google Inc.'s Maps service.

In a blog post, Amotz Maimon, Yahoo's chief architect said that maps. yahoo. com will shut down by the end of this month.

Yahoo is shutting down its services in order to realign itself to focus on search and digital content. Maps. yahoo. com will shut down by the end of this month, Amotz Maimon, Yahoo's chief architect, said in a blog post, as the service faces intense competition from Google Inc's Maps service.

Maimon mentioned that Yahoo's search and other services including photo-sharing website Flickr will still support Yahoo Maps.

According to Fortune, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is on top of the Fortune 500 list for the third straight year, remaining the largest company in the country.

Revenue of Wal-Mart was $485.7 billion in its fiscal year, ending on January 31; it was over $100 billion ahead of number two, Exxon Mobil of Irving, Texas; the company had revenue of $382.6 billion last year.

Chevron, which is based in San Ramon, Calif., was at third position with $203.8 billion in revenue last year. Berkshire Hathaway of Omaha, Neb., Warren Buffet's conglomerate of companies, held fourth position with $194.7 billion in revenue. General Motors of Detroit was at fifth position with $155.9 billion in revenue.

According to reports, Walt Disney has replaced nearly 250 employees with Indians on H1-B visa. And now, a US Senator has demanded an investigation into the 'potential misuses' of the popular H1-B visa programme.

Democratic Senator Bill Nelson of Florida has demanded the probe into the temporary visa programme for highly skilled immigrants. He asked for the probe following a report in The New York Times that claimed that technology employees at Walt Disney World in Orlando and other companies were replaced by immigrants and even had to train their replacements.

As per a report, Nelson asked Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to examine 'potential misuses' of the H-1B visa programme.

According to Vodafone Group PLC, it is in talks with Liberty Global PLC over an 'exchange of selected assets'. This could lead the two companies to a new deal related to European television and communications.

British telecommunications giant said that talks have just begun and there have not been any discussions over a complete merger with Liberty Global. In recent days, Mr. Malone publicly showed that there is a possibility of such a deal, which will lead to increased shares of Vodafone. Liberty Global is a US-based cable operator controlled by John Malone and it focuses on Europe.

This week, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has released its Xtreme Eating Awards. The awards highlight the unhealthiest meals full of calories, high in sodium served at restaurant food chains in the nation.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a non-profit health advocacy group based in Washington, is shocked by the unhealthy meals served in restaurants in the nation.

Red Lobster's 'Create Your Own Combination' has 2,710 calories and has 6,530 milligrams sodium. You will get these calories if you choose the Parrot Isle Jumbo Coconut Shrimp, Walt's Favorite Shrimp, and Shrimp Linguine Alfredo with sides, including the Caesar salad, French fries, and one Cheddar Bay Biscuit.