Globe Telecom invests $100,000 in Kalibrr, a startup aimed at capitalising on growth in the Philippines's offshore outsourcing sector.

Alongside Mayo Ventures in the seed round were venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & byers, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Aberdare Ventures.

As well as investing in YouScribe, Iris, which is backed by local corporations France Telecom and Publicis and Saudi Telecom, sold Human Inference to Neopost.

Samsung is close to signing a deal for a prominent venue in downtown Palo Alto that will house a start-up accelerator, according to news provider All Things D.

Eleven of the 31 teams in its Esurfing Innovation Technology Company are from outside the company, according to news provider Techne!.

Sheffield spin-out Magnomatics raises $4m for its magnetic gear technology.

Optus, a subsidiary of SingTel, backs spin-outs from University of Melbourne.

Qualcomm Ventures has taken part in a $4.6m Series A for Silicon Valley-based home health-care software provider ClearCare.

South-African based WyseTalk, a cloud-based social business platform which spun off from Alacrity Technologies, has secured $1m in its first round of funding, led by the Titan Investment Group.