The e-commerce company is planning to launch the largest IPO ever, putting Yahoo in line to earn $8bn.

The exit is likely to have made a strong return for T-Venture, Deutsche Telekom's corporate venturing unit, which dubbed the company "a star performer" and the deal a "successful exit".

The Parkinson's disease drug developer has filed for an initial public offering the day after closing a $55m Alkermes-backed series C round.

The Google and Salesforce-backed sales and marketing software company has raised about $100m in venture funding so far.

Covagen, which is developing treatments for cancer and inflammatory diseases, has been acquired for an undisclosed sum, granting exits to Novartis and Seroba Kernel.

Comcast and SingTel-backed Bubbly, which had reportedly been set to liquidate only two weeks ago, has been bought by networking services company Altruist.

Incubator and venture firm Rocket Internet is set to reveal its plans for an initial public offering at the same time as one of its portfolio companies, Zalando.

Amazon acquired the video streaming platform, backed by Two-Take Interactive Software among others, for almost $1bn.

The gaming company will provide the funding in an attempt to increase its Southeast Asian business as it sells its stake in Supercell to parent company SoftBank.

The Nippon Insurance and Recruit-backed task crowdsourcing platform has been approved for an IPO in Japan.