DocsApp, whose investors include DeNA and Techmatrix, has joined forces with MediBuddy in deal buoyed by a $20m round backed by Mitsui Sumitomo.

NetApp has agreed to pay a reported $450m to buy the cloud workload management platform, which had raised $52m in funding from investors including Intel Capital.

Cloud collaboration software provider Exostar was formed by BAE, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Rolls-Royce before Merck & Co became a shareholder in 2014.

Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments has exited affiliate marketing service Skimlinks, which was purchased by Connexity for an undisclosed amount.

Cisco intends to purchase the network analytics software producer, which had raised more than $110m from investors including GV and Salesforce Ventures, for a reported $1bn.

Apple has bought Inductiv to integrate the latter's machine learning data cleanup expertise, based on Stanford, Wisconsin-Madison and Waterloo faculty innovations.

UPMC's ID Connect has absorbed Merck & Co's Ilúm Health Solutions to boost its client base and services offering.

The Vietnamese e-commerce platforms have reportedly agreed to merge subject to regulatory approval, having jointly raised nearly $300m from backers including SoftBank and JD.com.

Roche has purchased Stratos Group's DNA sequencing spinoff five years after its corporate venturing subsidiary contributed to a $30m series B round.

UAVC-backed antenna technology spinout FreeFall Aerospace has merged with one of its clients in order to focus its efforts on 5G communications.