Spice Digital, a subsidiary of mobile phone maker Spice Mobility, has paid an undisclosed amount for a 26% stake in Vavia, the India-based creator of Txtbrowser, a text message-based search engine, according to a stock market filing on Tuesday. Vavia is also the developer of an anonymous social networking app called Confess.

US-based app-centric software developer LiveAction has secured $5.35m in series A funding from networking technology company Cisco, which invested through its Cisco Investments unit, as well as AITV…