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Private-equity firm Carlyle and Getty Images management have formed a partnership to acquire stock-photo agency Getty Images from Hellman & Friedman for $3.3 billion.

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Facebook executive Carolyn Everson has set in motion plans to convince the world’s biggest brands that ads on the social network can indeed work—and to quantify how so.

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Japan Tobacco plans to change the name of its top-selling domestic brand, Mild Seven, as part of an effort to boost overseas sales and dislodge Marlboro as the world’s most popular cigarette.

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New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will receive up to $100 million in compensation, stock, bonus and retention awards over the next five years.

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Japanese police arrested the president of asset manager AIJ Investment Advisors and three others for allegedly selling funds with the knowledge that performance figures had been fabricated.

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Major TV networks have begun striking ad-sales deals for the fall season, winning higher prices over last year, despite resistance from one big advertiser, General Motors.

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