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A look at the largest deals in the quarter, including the $700m round of private equity funding for China-based e-commerce site 360Buy, as eye-catchingly large Asia deals continue to be a staple of our coverage.

The main investment and exit stats from the quarter.

A look at how Japan is trying to find its own path in corporate venturing beyond Silicon Valley.

The challenges faced by all three - Q.Cells, SunTech and SunPower - have been more broadly reflected across the clean-tech industry but there could be light at the end of the tunnel, judging by a new report by Global Corporate Venturing in partnership with Baker Botts.

Corporate venturing activity continues largely unchanged, although broader
mergers and acquisitions were handed a boost by the re-emergence of the private
equity buyout, with a $24.4bn bid for US-based computer maker Dell and a $23bn
offer for US-based consumer goods company Heinz.

Industrial companies are facing a period of pronounced change as the pace
of innovation has enabled start-ups to enter areas long the domain of large
corporations. In response, large corporates are starting or expanding corporate
venturing programmes.

VMware, a New York-listed provider of virtualization and cloud infrastructure, last week agreed to acquire Virsto, which provided the first exit for venture capital firm Correlation Ventures.