The forthcoming IPO by the company comes after a year of struggling to list in Hong Kong.
Apple has lost its bid for a US ban on Samsung smartphones.
The companies will create an innovation lab in California to expand connectivity to emerging markets.
The social networking giant paid $19 billion for the mobile messaging start-up.
The company has proposed an amount of $45.2 billion to acquire Time Warner Cable.
The appointment of Satya Nadella as CEO of Microsoft was made official last week.
The company bought Google's handset division, Motorola Mobility, in its second multibillion-dollar deal in two weeks.
The company acquired about 1 400 patents, including those of Palm and the iPaq smartphone.
The search giant acquires Nest Labs, a digital thermostat maker, for $3.2 billion.
The international ICT market was dominated by many major and smaller acquisitions over December.
The demise of a number of ICT companies in the local market is a major cause for concern going forward.
Combined with this retrial verdict, the iPhone maker has now been awarded $930 million in30 the case.