Wal-Mart CEO and President Mike Duke will officially step down on Feb 1, 2014 and will be replaced by Doug McMillon who is the head of Wal-Mart's international division. Duke will continue his role as Chairman and will be advising the new CEO for a year.
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TTK Group vows to regain market share amid loss of Durex brands of ex-partner Reckitt
Indian company TTK Group is moving forward with its plans to seize back market share it lost after the ending of its partnership with Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc a year ago by increasing sales shipments of its own brand of prophylactics.
Gold Fields keen to stretch maturities of loans - CEO
Due to the swing of gold prices, South African mining company Gold Fields Ltd had resorted to negotiating with its creditors for an extension of its loan maturities, said Gold Fields CEO Nick Holland.
ZTE developing new smartwatch for mainstream China
ZTE is currently devoting its resources to developing a new smartwatch that would be released to the Chinese market in the first quarter of next year. The device would be almost the same as the Samsung Galaxy Gear, but would be cheaper and could only connect to other ZTE mobile devices.
UBS offers buyback of some Puerto Rico bond fund shares
Swiss lender UBS said it will be offering to repurchase some of the shares of its Puerto Rico bond funds. The buyback program came as the commonwealth's debt lost 16% this year.
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Kingsoft Office Software, a China-based software company, which was recently incorporated in the U.S, has secured USD 50 million in new funding from Morningside Group, GGV Capital, and Shunwei China Internet Fund.
Allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin will reportedly get upset about the Russian state chief's latest economic policy to freeze prices starting next year, Bloomberg said in its report.
Blackstone Group LP's decision to sell its La Quinta Inns & Suites hotel chain was reportedly done in order to obtain higher returns as oppose to conducting a private sale, sources said to Bloomberg.
Line, a message app based in Japan, proudly announced at a press conference in Tokyo that it has added another 100m people to its registered user count, totaling the number of registered users since its launch at 300 million. It hopes to hit 500 million registered users by 2014.
Carlyle Group LP said on Monday it has finished raising money for its latest U.S. private equity fund, surpassing its initial $10 billion fundraising target by $3 billion.
In order to comply with competition issues surrounding its July acquisition of Whyte & Mackay owner United Spirits Limited, Diageo PLC offered to sell majority of the latter's distilleries.
Although Dubai seemed to have recovered from the 2009 debt crisis it experienced in 2009, it needs to sell some of its assets, including Mauser, to repay some USD50 million in debt, according to sources who told Reuters.
Italian automaker Fiat SpA said in its announcement today that although Chrysler Group LLC has postponed plans for a 2013 initial public offering, the former expected the latter to carry on with its plans for a share sale next year.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave his thoughts about NSA surveillance techniques in an episode of 'This Week on ABC today.' Zuckerberg thought that the government failed regarding its actions on privacy matters and calls for more transparency.
