The internet and mobile are transforming the way we consume content. Gareth Capon and Ben Moore led a seminar discussion on the subject at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium yesterday.

Arvind Sodhani, president of corporate venture capital unit Intel Capital, stressed the importance of financial as well as strategic success in a keynote speech at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium.

Microsoft Ventures' Rahul Sood told the audience at the fourth annual Global Corporate Venturing Symposium how the unit is helping startups to scale.

Jorge Cosano spoke to Global Corporate Venturing about his new role overseeing AMI's corporate venturing, and how media and product will cross over in future.

Accelevate will seek to encourage digital healthcare innovation with a new team for venture capital and health market expertise.

In March 2005, the face and mindset of corporate venturing changed forever. That was the year that Arvind Sodhani, the former treasurer of Intel, became president of Intel Capital, the strategic investment arm of the semiconductor chip and microprocessor manufacturer. Today, Sodhani oversees
all venturing investments for Intel Capital, as well as all mergers and acquisitions activity for Intel Corporation. Not everyone has the stomach to sign off on billion-dollar deals, but Sodhani clearly does.

Rahul Sood, general manager of Microsoft Ventures, spoke to Global Corporate Venturing about Microsoft's accelerator programme and the development of regional venture ecosystems, in advance of his keynote speech at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium next week.

Robert Plehn has left financial services firm Lloyds to head up General Electric subsidiary GE Capital's capital markets team.