ViSenze, a spin-out from NExT, signs partnership with Rakuten subsidiary for Taiwan-based online fashion search.

Anscor leads $53m series C equity financing round for Philippines-based modular fabricator Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific.

Tsinghua University offers $1.3bn in a takeover bid of smartphone chipset manufacturer Spreadtrum.

Australia-based Vivant Ventures, the digital technologies incubator unit of Vivant, has formed a partnership with Australia investment firm MH Carnegie, which will be a welcome venture for companies hatching out of the Vivant incubator looking for follow-on funding.

SK Planet, an internet services company owned by SK Telecom of South Korea, will be active in the US technology corporate venturing space over the next three to five years. The company has a funding remit of between $500m and $1bn.

Globe Telecom's venturing unit, Kickstart ventures, has created a partnership with Australia incubator Pollenizer to back entrepreneurs in the Philippines, where many solution-based ventures have yet to be explored.

Telstra Ventures has made a $18.3m strategic investment in US-based aoo platform company, Kony Solutions, which will boost sales and customer numbers for both companies in the Asia Pacific market. Kony funding raised to date is more than $57m.