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Christmas comes for augmented reality

The Economist’s latest Technology Quarterly published in the past week focuses on the promise of virtual reality as “computer-generated realities are becoming ubiquitous”.

MyoKardia causes Sanofi hearts to flutter

UK-based pharmaceuticals company Bristol-Myers Squibb has said it would acquire heart disease specialist MyoKardia for $13.1bn in cash, or $225 per share.

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Spying the data trends

Sophia Genetics, a Switzerland-based clinical insights platform, has raised $110m in its series F round from a consortium including Hitachi Ventures.

Riding the storm of change

Change is coming. The only question remains how to maximise the impact at a corporation through sophisticated use of open innovation tools, such as corporate venturing, and align them to traditional research and development and mergers and acquisitions.

A chance to impact the world

Sir Ronald Cohen’s insights from his second book, Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change, lay out a methodology for adding impact to the usual risk and return decision-making for investing.

Senior CVC moves

Congratulations to Mike Cavanagh at Comcast for taking up the reins of its ventures unit after Amy Banse’s decision to retire next year.

Fintech fantastic

My thanks to Ken Gatz, CEO at deal management software platform Proseeder, for running the past two days’ pitch events covering sustainability and mobility on 22nd and financial and deep technology yesterday.

Necessity is the mother of invention

There are some useful lessons when looking at climate change and limiting or reversing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to look back at the first global initiative to tackle similar concerns over the ozone layer holes caused by CFCs.