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Physic Ventures, a venture capital firm backed by consumer goods companies Pepsi and Unilever, leads $12m third funding round for Gazelle, a US-based company for selling secondhand electronics goods.

European entrepreneurs' start-up takes strategic stakes in coupon company Piku after similar deals in Germany and China.

Most active venture capital groups in technology sector, according to VentureXpert.

Table of the funds raised the penultimate year befor ethe millennium at the top of the dot.com boom.

The name of the game is adding value to become the world's biggest venture investor.

Light Blue lasers in on European innovation

A combination of perfect venture capital group criteria is found in China's growing private equity market.

The impact of technology on e-commerce - online sales - is leading to the spread of real-time trading, from stock exchanges to almost every business sector, from airlines to auction rooms and retail sales.

E-commerce comes of age with venture investment in online sale analysis company.

Once a technology company has decided to break the cultural tendency of employees to undervalue things "not invented here" and to look externally for growth or insights, money is not the only technique to find and gain a collaboration with the other business.

Analysis of the importance of lending to venture-backed companies.