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New York, US-based commercial real estate (CRE) property research platform Reonomy nabbed $3.7 million in its Series A funding round led by SoftBank to simplify the process of gathering CRE data.

Norway announced that it is letting its sovereign wealth fund World Wildlife Fund (WWF) lead a major investment in the renewable energy sector of the country to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

After its recent purchases of Motorola Mobility and IBM's server business, Chinese personal computer (PC) maker Lenovo said that it will continue its string of acquisitions to drive its growth.

The alarming levels of pollution in Paris, France have pushed the government to ban half of the city's vehicles except electric and hybrid cars on Monday and Tuesday in an effort to help clear the smog trapped in the city.

Bedford, US-based SQL database startup VoltDB raised $8 million in a Series B funding round led by an unnamed investor from Silicon Valley to scale databases both up and out.

San Francisco, US-based cloud storage giant Dropbox acquired Cambridge, Massachusetts-based stealthy workplace chat solution Zulip for an undisclosed amount to integrate its services into its product offering.

After 14 years of service in Microsoft, Xbox Chief Product Officer Marc Whitten will be departing and heading over to Sonos to take the same position for an unspecified reason.

Bangalore, India-based online jewelry retailer BlueStone bagged $10 million in its Series B funding round led by venture capital firm Kalaari Capital to beef up its marketing and branding campaigns.

Thousand Oaks, US-based agricultural biotechnology seed firm Ceres Inc got $23 million from a recent public offering of common stock to be used for its operations and other corporate purposes.

Star Scientific Inc, a dietary supplements maker based in Henrico County, US, secured $9.3 million through equity and funding deals from its investors as it struggles to achieve profitability and conquer liquidity problems.

California, US-based semiconductor startup Aquantia Corp closed $16 million in a Series G funding round led by Xilinx Inc as it prepares for its initial public offering (IPO) in the US.

West Perth, Australia-based mineral exploration firm Rox Resources landed $3.3 million from the placement of 73.3 million shares to fund its nickel project in the Goldfields.

Dublin, Ireland-based oil exploration firm PetroNeft Resources raised $6.7 million (€4.8 million) in combined share placement and debt facility to support the development of its oilfield in Russia.

Cupertino, US-based electronics giant Apple started selling the 8GB version of iPhone 5C in Apple stores in the UK at £40 less than the original cost to make up for the low sales of the said device.

San Leandro, US-based hearing product developer iHear Medical launched a crowdfunding campaign via Indiegogo to make personalized hearing aids available for 350 people worldwide with hearing impairment.