Tempo Cagri Hizmetleri, a Turkey-based call centre, has reportedly raised an undisclosed amount from Japan-based financial services company Mitsui and local investment firm Globalturk Capital.

Japan-based social gaming company Mobcast has bought local peer Enter Crews for $7m from shareholders including B Dash Fund, a multi-corporate venture firm backed by NTT and Bigfoot.

Media entrepreneurs Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman launched Graphic India as a subsidiary of US comic book company Liquid Comics, which will retain a stake.

In November, the Optus-Innov8 Seed Program made its first round of investments in 121cast (alongside venture capital firm Adventure Capital) and Venuemob (alongside Sydney Angels network).

DCM invests on behalf of Japan-based games company Gree in it's $100m A-Fund and sold develop Pokelabo to this limited partner for $175m last year.

KDDI, a Japan-based phone operator, has invested an undisclosed amount in local applications publisher 3rdKind though its Open Innovation Fund.

CBC Capital was founded in 2006 and its limited partners include media groups CNC Group and News Corp, phone operator PCCW, advertising services company WPP, Citic Capital, Cheung Kong, and angels.