Motorola divided on January 4 into Mobility and Solutions to cover mobile phones and enterprises respectively and its corporate venturing unit has followed the two by splitting its portfolio and concentrating most of its teams back in the US.

News provider SearchBlog says Tim Mayer is chief strategy officer and Ben Wright vice-president of service delivery and marketplace at Trada.

Fusco advises on all stages of venture capital transactions, including seed and angel investments, traditional and corporate venture capital investments, private placements, strategic partner investments and related financing alternatives.

Global Corporate Venturing has awarded General Motors Ventures as the most influential corporate venturing unit in the transport and logistics sector.

Global Corporate Venturing asked practitioners three questions: What will be the big issue for 2011? What do you hope will be repeated this year from 2010? What do you hope will not be repeated this year from 2010?

Global Corporate Venturing-supported survey of how corporate venturing has become a vital tool for managing innovations.

IAC Advertising sales head Dean Lucente joins Transpera.

Having raised $13m from Virgin Green Fund-led consortium, Quench hires Anthony Ibarguen as chief executive.

Jay Chong joins Samsung as corporate venturing investment director from Intel.

Alloy Ventures, NEA and DFJ win awards from Astia, a US-based adviser to women-led growth companies.