Online back-up solution Carbonite acquires recovery software provider Zmanda for $14.8m

News syndication service Newscred has acquired news aggregation Daylife for an undisclosed amount.

Takeda has snapped up US vaccine development company LigoCyte for $60m cash plus possible future earnouts.

Medical technology company Medtronic has acquired orthopaedic device manufacturer Kanghui Holdings for $816m.

Google acquires Nikon Corporation Japan backed software company Snapseed, an advanced photo editing app and rival to Instagram.

Cyber security company KEYW secures its second deal in under a week with the acquisition of SenSage. A deal worth upwards of $34.5m

The twitter app developer is backed by cloud-computing company Salesforce and SoftBank Capital.

FormFactor acquires its probe card manufacturing rival MicroProbe, which is backed by Intel Capital, for $117m.