US car developer and manufacturer, Fisker Automotive has reportedly received a recent undisclosed joint offer by strategic car parts company Wanxiang Group of China and US car developer VL Automotive.

Google Ventures' fifth arrow in its quiver - helping its portfolio companies and their mergers and acqusitions strategy.

News of the proposed acquisition have boosted shares in Nasdaq-listed AutoNavi by more than 30% since the start of May and stand at about $14.77 per share.

South Africa media group, Naspers, and its shares in 'money spinner' China online gaming company Tencent Holdings, are paying off as are the two companies' investment synergies. The two corporate investors have merged two investments, BuyThePrice.com and Tradus.com, to create a dominate player in the India buyer-seller e-commerce sector.

Egnyte said it would expand the Poland-based team by a factor of four over the next 12 months after the acquisition.

Salesforce and SAP Ventures-backed Mulesoft, an online integration platform, acquires API database ProgrammableWeb for an undisclosed fee from Alcatel-Lucent.

As Alibaba ventures into the social media and social commerce segments of its investment portfolio, a $586m investment into Weibo, China's equivalent to Twitter seems bang on target to its corporate strategy, which is to have greater access to user data and buying trends across Alibaba e-commerce platforms and other future e-marketplaces.