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The company has renamed its corporate venturing unit Volvo Group Venture Capital, headed by Johan Carlsson (pictured), to reflect its broadened mandate, which includes being able to make acquisitions and take majority stakes.

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.

Fisker raises $100m in Series E round amidst growing pains, seeks market expansion into the Middle East and China.

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?

Daimler has acquired a minority interest in Tiramizoo, a Munich-based delivery logistics service start-up.

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.

Smith Electric, backed by the Tanfield Group and SEV Group, had set a range, with a mid-point of $76m, before pulling its IPO on Friday.

IDG, the corporate venturing unit of US-based publisher International Data Group, and undisclosed investors made up the rest of the C round consortium.

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.