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Index Ventures raises €500 million tech fund

Venture capital firm Index Ventures has closed its largest ever growth fund after raising €500 million (£430 million) to invest in fast-growing globally ambitious technology businesses.

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AIM on track with 2010

August saw a total of £161.1 million raised via new and further issues, with £87 million raised through new issues alone.

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Private equity investments improve

Companies backed by private equity have seen improved or unaffected performance, new findings reveal.

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Compliance deal for IDOX

Software and services business IDOX has acquired UK-based Interactive Dialogues and Interactive Dialogues NV in a deal worth €2.2 million (£1.9. million).

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Oxford Instruments seeks US expansion

Oxford Instruments, a provider of high technology tools and systems for industry and research, eyes greater growth in the US after acquiring Platinum Medical Imaging for an initial $18 million (£11.2 million).

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Lloyds backs Encon buy-out from Wolseley UK

Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance has backed the management buy-out of Encon Group from its parent company, Wolseley UK, committing a £35 million line of credit for the company.

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Masabi secures $4 million from m8 Capital

Mobile technology investor m8 Capital has led a $4 million (£2.5 million) Series B funding round for Masabi, the developer of mobile phone ticketing technology.

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MedicX Healthfund makes three acquisitions

UK healthcare property investment fund MedicX Healthfund has acquired the freehold interests of two purpose built care homes in Coupar Angus and Dundee and a third in Bangor, Northern Ireland.

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Masabi secures $4 million from m8 Capital

Mobile technology investor m8 Capital has led a $4 million (£2.5 million) Series B funding round for Masabi, the developer of mobile phone ticketing technology.

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MedicX Healthfund makes three acquisitions

UK healthcare property investment fund MedicX Healthfund has acquired the freehold interests of two purpose built care homes in Coupar Angus and Dundee and a third in Bangor, Northern Ireland.

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kwittken + company acquires London’s Epoch PR

Kwittken + company worldwide (KCO) has acquired Epoch PR, a London-based multi-specialist corporate communications PR agency.

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Oiling the wheels of behavioural change

Keith Brown, chief executive of mobile payments service Paythru, declares that his company is ‘not out to change the world’. Instead, he aims to alter consumer behaviour by ‘oiling the wheels’ of change.

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Publicis grows in China with Wangfan purchase

International communications company Publicis Groupe has wholly acquired Shanghai-based Wangfan for an undisclosed sum as part of a strategy to double in size in the Chinese market.

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Quindell Portfolio acquires Maine Finance

Brand extension business Quindell Portfolio has announced the acquisition of online financial services broking company Maine Finance for £2.1 million.