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By Aashika Jain

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1. It's the D-day for D-mart! D-Mart's parent company Avenue Supermarts Ltd's market cap touched Rs1 trillion. The share price was at a record-high of Rs1,608.50

2. Speaking of the stock market, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has reported a first-quarter net loss of over 1 billion dollars, right ahead of its much talked about IPO.

3. With Facebook in many data controversies, WhatsApp payments was always a concern for all. But now WhatsApp has said that it is sharing limited data with parent company Facebook from the Payments service

4. It's bad news again for crypto lovers. After a hack on a South Korean exchange, the prices of Bitcoin, ethereum, ripple crashed. While 2017 was the year of cryptocurrencies, 2018 doesn't seem to be working out for them.

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Aashika Jain

Entrepreneur Staff

Former Associate Editor, Entrepreneur India

Journalist in the making since 2006! My fastest fingers have worked for India's business news channel CNBC-TV18, global news wire Thomson Reuters, the digital arm of India’s biggest newspaper The Economic Times and Entrepreneur India as the Digital Head. 
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