A man walks past a sign bearing the Softbank Corp. logo outside the company's store in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. Softbank agreed to pay $20.1 billion to acquire about a 70 percent stake in Sprint Nextel Corp. as Japan's third-biggest mobile-phone operator seeks growth overseas amid a declining local market. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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