Founded in 2006, Mashery has raised at least $34.7m across about five rounds from consortia including Cisco.

Elsevier has acquired Mendeley, a cloud-based research management and social collaboration platform for between a reported $69m -$100m

Ubiquisys had raised about $62m.

LinkedIn is paying $9m in cash and the rest in its shares for Pulse.

Avago said the acquisition of CyOptics would help its fibre optics product portfolio for emerging 40G and 100G enterprise and data centre applications. Last year, CyOptics had net sales of $210m, up 21% from 2011.

Cisco Systems has acquired Austria-based SolveDirect for a undisclosed amount.

Cloud provider VMWare also reportedly seeded the company according to news provider ReadWriteWeb.

Cadence Design Systems, a publicly traded maker of electronic design automation products, acquires Fujitsu and NTT-backed Tensilica.

NYT said it expected to book a $100m profit in the fourth quarter from the sale of its minority equity interest.