OpenTable, an online restaurant reservation provider, has acquired SingTel and Amex-backed Ness Computing, a US-based provider of personalised restaurant recommendations, for $17.2m.

ABB Technology Ventures made a profitable exit as it sold its share of cyber security company Industrial Defender to Lockheed Martin, which has fully acquired the business.

Chemical company LG Chem is set to buy the US-based desalination membrane producer in a $200m deal that will provide exits for BASF and Total.

The management of Romanian software company Siveco "go marching on own new way" and buy back Intel/Enterprise Investors' minority stake.

Ingram Micro aims to accelerate growth into $40 billion market for e-commerce fulfillment services, through acquisition of Shipwire, a logistics services company backed by eBay and Newell Rubbermaid.

Novartis Pharmaceuticals signs deal worth a possible $300m to acquire the lead drug asset of Sideris Pharmaceuticals for the treatment of transfusion-related iron overload; concurrently, Sideris raises $32m series A funding.

Network software company Untangle acquires Intel-backed Cymphonix Corporation and pursues further acquisitions.