China-based internet company Tencent have purchased a minority stake in healthcare service community Dxy.cn for $70m.

A&E Networks is close to purchasing a 10% stake in Vice Media that would value the company at $2.5bn, and would see Vice produce programming for the A&E cable network.

The gaming company will provide the funding in an attempt to increase its Southeast Asian business as it sells its stake in Supercell to parent company SoftBank.

Intel Capital, Imagination Technologies' largest shareholder, has cut its share from 14% to 5%, causing the microchip maker's stock to fall.

The corporate-backed fund has profitably divested stakes in transmission electron microscopy company Kontem and LED lighting product maker LEDexchange.

Shree Renuka Sugars will sell a 7.5% stake in the NCDEX, including a 5% holding to the National Stock Exchange of India.

GE Capital is selling the LP interests in private equity funds as its parent company bids $17bn for Alstom's power business.

The healthcare company made a 52% profit from the sale of its 11% stake, originally acquired in 2012, back to Vodafone for $1.48bn.

Tencent Holdings, the corporate investing unit of China internet group Tencent, has formed a strategic partnership with China e-commerce site, JD.com, which included Tencent acquiring a 15% stake in the business for a reported $214.7m. The move will enable Tencent to gain traction in the China market and beef up its competitiveness against the likes of other internet commerce sites, such as Alibaba.

The NBCUniversal News Group has taken a minority stake in US social video start-up NowThisNews. Existing backers of the Lerer-start-up include Softbank Capital, Bedrocket, Lerer Ventures and Oak Investment Partners. The two companies will work with each other out of New York. Prior to the NBCUniversal transaction the start-up had raised just under $10m.