China-based gaming portal and downloads site YY.com is seeking a US initial public offering [IPO] after filing its F-1 with the SEC on Monday, and is looking to raise $100m in the offering.

Be braced for Workday, or another IPO to pop, to see the market heat up again. Until, of course, investors are sold another extraordinarily over-priced listing, like Facebook turned out to be, at least for those investing over the short-term.

Perhaps one should be perusing the marriage updates section of old media dealmaking, instead of harping on about those venerable old things that have died?

A large patent portfolio bought by iRobot in its acquisition of Evolution, doubtless has been of interest to its corporate venturing unit backer Vodafone Ventures.

Moving into financial services opens up a very large business, which the wisdom of crowds and big data analytics can be applied to make more and hopefully better investment decisions at a lower cost.

Geopost, international delivery subsidiary of France-based La Poste, is stepping up its presence in corporate venturing and one of the companies it has could soon have Olympian Usain Bolt as a torch carrier.

OnLive restructures to leave corporations nursing their pain.

The question taxpayers, voters and employees will start to ask is whether government strategies are priming an innovation capacity in areas that a country, ie its companies primarily, have no interest or capacity to commercialise whether through corporate venturing and then acquisitions?