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Shareholders include UK-listed internet services provider Mail.ru Group and Japan-based financial services group Mitsui own A shares which will have "substantial control" over the company even though Qiwi's regulatory filing said they could be competitors.

University of Cambridge spin-out Cronto launches anti-malware banking software with Comdirect Bank AG.

Crowdtilt, a US-based online service for crowd funding, has raised $12m in its series A round from a consortium including CrunchFund, backed by media group AOL.

Coinsetter said it would "soon be launching a levered forex trading platform for Bitcoin that enables people to make levered trades on margin and short the Bitcoin market".

This is an analysis of the ten most active units and has attached the main data of our new quarterly reports, the first of which, a 12-page special, can be seen in full, in this month's magazine.

The corporate venturing unit of Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever has made plans to increase its assets under management with its latest $450m fund from its parent, Global Corporate Venturing can reveal.

Modern consumer corporations generally continue to pump out the kind of products that the world population simply cannot stop buying. Yet these industries, which have been brutally competitive, as well as profitable, since ancient times, are being transformed by a rapidly growing world population, where consumer spending power is truly globalising.

Corporate venturing investments slowed in March by number and value as exits were boosted by three initial public offerings. The slowdown in deal activity came as nerves appeared to creep back into wider market trading, as eurozone country Cyprus negotiated a bailout that involved haircuts for bank depositors.

US-based chip design software manufacturer Tensilica, backed by Japan technology companies Fujitsu and NTT, and US-based technology company Cisco, was the biggest sale of the quarter, in an exit to US-based chip design software manufacturer Cadence Design Systems for $380m. The biggest initial public offering of the quarter was the $108m raised by US-based marketing software company Marin Software.