A deal with Mark IV Industries could reach $1.2 billion.
The Scottish business management software company will spend the cash on a marketing campaign ahead of an IPO next year.
antfactory gets backing worth $350m (E389m).
Deutsche Borse and the LSE will join Nasdaq to create a high-growth exchange for Europe.
The company develops treatments that assist patients dependent on immune therapies.
A competition run by The Sunday Times and 3i offers British hi-tech entrepreneurs up to £2m each.
Yes Television will delay its planned flotation on the London Stock Exchange. Altavista agrees market conditions are too volatile and has delayed its Nasdaq listing.
The bank has admitted the Dutch stock market forced it to make last minute clarifications to World Online's prospectus. It also blamed the 'grey market' in shares for inflating investor expectations.
Alchemy has ended talks with BMW to buy Rover.
The successful flotation of E.Biscom, an Italian Internet company, on Europe’s New Market circuit of exchanges for high-growth technology stocks,