Taking a page out of rival Oracle Corp.'s playbook, Germany's SAP AG announced late Sunday that it had agreed to acquire France's business intelligence (BI) and analytics powerhouse Business Objects S.A. for $6.8 billion.

Best Buy Co., Inc. named Jim Muehlbauer interim CFO of $36 billion consumer electronics giant, with headquarters in Richfield, Minn. Muehlbauer, 45, succeeds Darren Jackson, who has been appointed to the newly created position of executive vice president of Customer Operating Groups.

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Visa Inc., the newly restructured San Francisco-based company comprised of Visa Canada, Visa USA, and Visa International, named Byron Pollitt Jr. CFO. Pollitt, 56, joins ...

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