Google's corporate venturing unit backs the US-based skills testing website for a second time, after investing in its seed round last year.

Moonray-backed Romax Technology, a UK-based engineering company says it hopes to create around 100 new jobs in Nottingham and the UK over the next three to five years.

Intel Capital is joined by Rogers Communications' corporate venturing unit, Visa and Mastercard as well as others backing the mobile authentication company.

US-based cloud software company Box's corporate venturing unit Box Innovation Network is joined backing the construction blue-print company by 500 Startups and Navitas Capital.

Academic research into behavioual science informs new wave of service entrepreneurs.

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The deal would be valued at more than $800m compared to the about $85m raised by Buddy since its launch in 2007, according to news provider All Things D.

Separately, Mixpanel, a US-based analytics platform for mobile and web, has raised $10m in its series A round from a consortium including Salesforce's founder and chief executive, Marc Benioff.

True Ventures joins engineering service and research provider S&K Technologies and geospatial analysis company GCS Research backing the real-time security software developer.

Innovacorp's Greg Phipps said the graduate job hunter-targeted site bridges a gap between the professional networking of LinkedIn and the "purely social networking of Facebook".