Among the changes: Wal-Mart is now putting special labels on some of its store-brand products to help shoppers quickly spot healthier items.

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Festivities vary according to the store, with special commemorative releases, one-off discounts and free pizza being popular choices.

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By adding Kellogg brands to Keebler's cookie trucks, Kellogg was able to improve its in-store merchandising and launch new products like Special K bars economically, with less advertising.

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For example, once the code-morphing software has translated a particular chunk of x86 code into micro-ops it can store the translated chunk in a special memory to avoid having to translate it again.

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