The financial planning app producer was bought from media company DMG for an undisclosed amount.

A report that stated that the mobile payments company had spoken to Google, Apple, Ebay and PayPal over a possible acquisition has since been denied by both Square and additional sources.

E-commerce company Alibaba has increased its stake in the microblogging platform to 32% through an initial public offering that now appears underpriced.

A local press report has stated that India-based Videocon could follow up an investment in pharmaceutical company Dr Datsons by acquiring the company.

The advanced engineering materials group will acquire 85% of Manchester University's graphene company.

Mainstay Medical is set to raise up to $36.4m from its initial public offering, with existing shareholder Medtronic to take some of the stock.

IBM has signs agreement to acquire the cloud marketing platform Silverpop, backed by Michigan's Wolverine fund.

Zumbox, which had raised more than $30m from investors including the share registry company over a seven-year period.

The China-based e-commerce company is set to extend its acquisition activity by buying navigation service AutoNavi in a deal worth about $1.5bn.

In October 2010, 3M New Ventures provided an undisclosed amount to acquire 38% of Perceptive. The groups is understood to have reaped $100m from the sale of its stake to Microsoft, according to an insider on the deal.