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Microsoft CEO might be Nadella after Qualcomm promotes Mollenkopf as CEO - report

With Microsoft wanting to consider an internal employee for its new chief and its rumored shortlist dwindling with the promotion of Steve Mollenkopf as new Qualcomm chief, a TechCrunch report said the tech giant's new CEO might be Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise chief Satya Nadella by default.


Processor design firm ARM acquires Need for Speed graphics and lighting tech provider Geomerics

Cambridge, England-based ARM's acquisition of graphics and lighting tech for games maker Geomerics was strategic, as the former intends to extend its reach in visual computing.

Sycamore to announce $1.2 billion Jones Group acquisition by next week - sources

According to one of the two sources who were knowledgeable of the process, private-equity firm Sycamore Partners might announce its $1.2 billion acquisition of Jones Group Inc as early as next week.

Wall Street will be moving hundreds of millions into Bitcoin - SecondMarket chief

SecondMarket founder and chief executive Barry Silbert claimed in an article on Entrepreneur that Wall Street will soon invest their money in hundreds of millions into Bitcoin.


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California-based Blackhawk Network Inc will be entering the prepaid market in Africa through a partnership with South Africa-based Opengate Technologies to distribute iTune Gift Cards to the country.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Friday appointed senior vice-president Krish Iyer as new chief executive officer of Wal-Mart India. Iyer was named the retailer's new local unit CEO two months after Wal-Mart called off its Indian joint venture with Bharti Enterprises Pvt.
US-based EchoStar Corp. said it had ended talks with Vivendi SA's subsidiary Global Village Telecom on a proposed partnership in Brazil. The joint venture aims to provide pay TV services in the Latin American country.
As General Motors Co disposes its 7% shareholder interest in France's PSA Peugeot Citroen, the latter said it is currently in talks with Dongfeng about a potential tie-up.
GLG Partners, a London-based hedge fund, agreed to settle claims that it overvalued the purchase of a mining asset in 2008 in a deal worth about $9 million, Bloomberg reported.
Data from Thomson Reuters Lipper service showed that investors of US-based stock mutual funds pulled out a total of $6.51 billion in the week ending December 11, Reuters reported.
Despite releasing the local assets back to Nokia Oyj, the Delhi High Court clarified that the Finnish company will still be liable to any remaining tax bills from the local mobile phone plant that Microsoft will be acquiring.
US-based professional technical services provider Jacobs Engineering Group Inc announced the completion of its merger with Australia-based firm Sinclair Knight Merz in a deal valued at AU$1.3 billion.