Oslo Business for Peace Award goes to William Rosenzweig, co-founder and a managing director of corporate venturing firm Physic Ventures.

Google Ventures backs Signpost, a community-powered shopping deals website formerly known as Postabon.

Jinesh Shah joins Godrej's Omnivore Capital corporate venturing fund.

HaloSource, a US-based company for water purification, issues $50m of new shares at its London Stock Exchange initial public offering and existing shareholders sell $30m of stock.

Giftango closes $5m B round led by Taylor.

Vegetarian fast food chain Mast Kalandar continues adding restaurants with latest round.

China leads the manufacture of solar and wind turbines (see tables below) as the country's authorities subsidise the move into energy efficiency and solar power.

Local news providers said BuyVIP's sale price could be about $100m if Amazon agrees purchase.

Transcosmos Investments gains exit through Naspers' acquisition of shopping site operator Multiply.