Canadian tech start-up Kik receives $50m investment from Tencent – China’s largest internet firm

Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation hopes to find matching commercial funding to invest in its successful start-ups

SoftBank continues its investment run, this time by ploughing $1bn into South Korea’s burgeoning e-commerce market

In its latest round of venture capital funding Snapchat seeks $500m, potentially raising the value of the popular mobile app to $19bn