Inphi said it would sell up to 7.82 million shares in its initial public offering (IPO), including 6.8 million of new shares, at between $10 and $12 each.

October might be a month for Halloween but research by Global Corporate Venturing finds a series of large trade sales and flotations of portfolio companies meant it was a time for treats rather than tricks.

Broadcom will pay up to $98m for Percello, an Israel-based developer of microchips for boosting mobile signals indoors, including $12m in performance fees.

Pacific Biosciences prices 12.5 million common shares at $16 each compared to $15 to $17 it set ahead of its initial public offering, and has a market capitalization of $802m on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

Linde, which owns 17% of Ikaria as part of a $380m cash-and-stock sale in 2007 of its gaseous drug-maker, INO Therapeutics, will see its stake diluted to 13.2% after the IPO.

Tudou, which is China 's No.2 online video website, will seek to raise between $100m and $150m through its initial public offering in the first three months of next year, Reuters said.

Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments and France's La Poste Group will increase joint control of Blue Lion Mobile.

Warburg Pincus and IDG both bought 15 million shares for $5m each in RDA Microelectronics' series C round in January 2007 ahead of its planned Nasdaq flotation.

GE Healthcare will pay about $580m for Safeguard Scientifics-backed Clarient at $5 per common share and $20 per preferred share.