IBT Staff Reporter

BMW, the world's largest premium car maker, said on Friday its August car sales in mainland China surged 63.2 percent from a year earlier.

Japan's health ministry is set to buy enough H1N1 flu vaccine for nearly 50 million people from British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline and Swiss maker Novartis, a Japanese newspaper reported on Friday.

China Mobile, the world's largest mobile carrier by subscribers, said on Friday it hoped to soon have lower-cost handsets for its 3G service, as it tries to popularise the service based on a homegrown standard.

Chipmaker National Semiconductor Corp posted stronger-than-expected first quarter results on Thursday because of increased demand from industrial markets.

Canadian media company Canwest Global Communications said on Thursday that its Canwest Limited Partnership unit has reached an agreement with senior secured lenders while discussions about a potential recapitalization deal continue.

Walt Disney Co on Thursday dashed fan speculation that it plans to resurrect the Michael Jackson 3-D film Captain EO in its theme parks, saying the 1986 short movie is dated.

Alessandro Nivola, Elisabeth Shue and Abigail Breslin have been cast in the indie drama Janie Jones, along with Frank Whaley, Brittany Snow, Peter Stormare and Joel David Moore.

Sales of video game equipment and software in the United States fell 16 percent in August to $908.7 million, research group NPD said on Thursday, the sixth consecutive monthly decline.

The Carlyle Group is raising a new Asia buyout fund with target size up to $3 billion as the U.S. private equity giant aims to tap more deals in Asia, two fund industry sources said on Friday.

Japan's Asahi Breweries said it was not in talks to buy soft-drinks maker Orangina, denying a newspaper report it was competing with domestic rival Suntory Holdings in a $3.8 billion auction.

Youth clothing chain rue21 Inc is seeking to raise as much as $125 million in an initial public offering, joining a recent spike in filings by retailers.

Las Vegas casino operator Wynn Resorts plans to raise up to $1 billion by listing its Macau assets on the Hong Kong stock exchange, two sources with direct knowledge of the deal said on Friday.

Twitter, the fast-growing microblogging site now seeking ways to make money, expanded its terms for users on Thursday to allow advertisers to reach the Internet site's more than 45 million monthly visitors.

Asian shares edged up on Friday as strong Chinese economic data supported regional recovery hopes, but Japanese exporters were hurt by a stronger yen as the dollar fell to its lowest in a year against a basket of currencies.

Sales of video game equipment and software in the United States fell 16 percent in August to $908.7 million, research group NPD said on Thursday, the sixth consecutive monthly decline.

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Deere & Co , the world's largest farm equipment maker, said on Thursday it would lay off 367 workers at its primary harvester factory in East Moline, Illinois, and idle most of the plant's other employees for a month because of reduced demand for combines.

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