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* A Wal-Mart Stores Inc. outlet may become the retail giant’s first unionized store after Quebec’s labor board accredited a union for the store with about 180 workers.

* Microsoft Corp. and France’s Thomson said they would upgrade their MSN TV Internet receiver, a television set-top box that offers simplified e-mail and Web browsing, to allow connection through a personal computer and a high-speed network.

* WellPoint Health Networks Inc., the No. 2 U.S. health insurer, hired Lee Arian, a former prosecutor with the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles, to help the company reduce abuse and fraudulent claims by patients and doctors.