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Wal-Mart is testing a same-day delivery service in select markets for customers who buy popular items online over the Christmas holiday shopping season. The tests, which started this month, are taking place in northern Virginia, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, San Francisco and San Jose, Calif. About 5,000 items will be available for the same-day service. The program follows Wal-Mart?s launch in April 2010 of same-day grocery delivery in San Jose.Honda hybrid incentiveHonda Motor Co., the only automaker selling compressed natural gas cars to U.S. drivers, will offer $3,000 worth of the fuel to buyers of its CNG-powered Civic to expand sales of the vehicle amid surging California gasoline prices.The promotion for Honda?s Civic Natural Gas is being done with Clean Energy Fuels Corp., the largest owner of U.S. natural gas stations, the carmaker said Tuesday. File-sharing fightWalt Disney Co. and other movie and TV studios asked a federal judge on Tuesday to rule that file-sharing website Lime Wire LLC and its founder, Mark Gorton, induced people to illegally download their shows and films for free.The companies, which also include Viacom Inc., Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., seek the same judgment that a federal court granted to the music industry against LimeWire in 2010.?Users by the tens of millions were attracted to LimeWire to access ? for free ? infringing copies of virtually any type of copyrighted content,? the entertainment companies said in a court filing. Stopping scammersThe Better Business Bureau and Western Union on Tuesday launched an education campaign to help people avoid falling victim to common scams used by con artists. A new website, BBB.org/scamstopper, offers tips to prevent fraud.Hollywood headlinerPenske Media is buying industry trade magazine Variety for an undisclosed sum. The publication has covered Hollywood for more than 100 years and is still considered a top industry news source. The Reed Elsevier Group said in March that it would put Variety up for sale to focus more on its business data services. Penske Media Corp. said Tuesday it planned to expand Variety?s presence around the globe. The digital media and publishing company owns several lifestyle news brands, including Hollywood news website Deadline.com Star news services

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