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If Chris Brown is to be believed in his latest tweets, he has announced his retirement as a global music artist with 'X' as his last album, which is due for release by the end of this month.

Steve Milunovich, an analyst from UBS, said Apple's iPhone M would outsell the company's flagship smartphone iPhone 5s next year.

Chubu Electric Power Co purchased an 80% stake in Diamond Power Corp, an independent producer and supplier of power owned by Mitsubishi Corp and operates in Tokyo.

Microsoft launched a new tool that would help it increase the number of apps in its mobile platform.

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The Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), also known as the Giełda Papierów Wartościowych w Warszawie (GPW), said it aims to purchase an equity stake of up to 30% from Aquis Exchange.

Sources told Reuters that Wal-Mart Stores Inc is thinking of bidding ParknShop, the supermarket business owned by Li Ka-shing.

Ray Investment, the private equity owner of Rexel, announced that it plans to sell another 10% of its stake in the French company.

International Finance Corporation revealed it would be increasing its investments in Nigeria by 25% to US$2 billion by 2014.

Spanish officials sold a controlling stake in Project Bull to H.I.G. Capital for around EUR100 million.

Reports suggested that Cohen & Steers Inc. is shutting down its private equity real estate operations.

A joint venture between Tower Realty Partners, Second City Capital Partners, and the affiliates of Feldman Equities bought a 187,000 square foot St. Petersburg building for US$20 million.

YuMe Inc. revealed that it set its IPO price per share at US$9, below the company's US$12-US$14 expected price per share.

First Solar announced they acquired numerous assets from Element Power across the US and Mexico for an undisclosed amount.

Biennale of Sydney revealed that they had Julian Knights join them as a member of its board of directors.