A company that has developed a technology it says can lengthen the lifespan of LEDs by up to four times at no extra cost is to invest over £500k into a prototype manufacturing plant in Cambridge.

Having already jammed its foot in the door of M2M communication through the 'white space' championing Weightless movement, ARM has now taken a major step into the consumer-centric Internet of Things (IoT) by partnering with LogMeIn to provide a basic product building kit for IoT innovators and entrepreneurs.

Amantys announced a major commercial breakthrough today, a collaborative deal with Hitachi to push IGBT Module Gate Drivers housing Amantys power drives throughout the European wind turbine and locomotive traction industries.

The audio division of HiWave Technologies plc has remerged with a new and unnamed owner just over two months after it went into administration and delisted from the London Stock Exchange.

CSR became Cambridge's third largest technology company measured by market cap this morning as its results for the first quarter of 2013 beat market expectations and sparked a massive surge in its share price, taking it past a £900m valuation.

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Pursuit Dynamics has offloaded the first of its business lines, accepting a rock-bottom £160,000 for its Food, Beverage and Brewing Business (FBB) from Peterborough food and beverage processor, Olympus Automation.

ARM added over £1.3 billion to its market cap during a huge day of trading that saw its share price finish up by over 10 per cent in reaction to first quarter results for 2013 that significantly outperformed market expectations.

Wireless utility metering and lighting, Cyan, is to raise £1m through a stock market placing as it continues to hold out for its elusive Indian metering deal.

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Small cell innovator, Cambridge Communication Systems, has raised £4.5 million in its second major funding round as it seeks to move into commercial pilots by the end of this year in preparation for mass roll out by 2014 or 2015.

Xaar's share price was up by 13 per cent today after the company announced revenues has increased by over a quarter and pretax profits by 72 per cent.

Warren East, the man that led ARM to a position where its IP sits in the processors that drive almost every smartphone and computer tablet in the world, has announced his decision to step down as CEO after almost 12 years in the post. Simon Segars, currently president of ARM, will become the company's new CEO.

Two former ARM directors have broken cover on a new startup that promises to deliver video conferencing at a fraction of the cost of the dominant systems on the market and with none of the set up pain.

Full-scale commercialisation is ready to take off at Aveillant after the company announced it had raised £6.75 million of investment, its second major funding round in the last two years.

In what amounts to a major industry breakthrough and a coup for inkjet innovator Xaar, the Cambridge company has revealed that Intel's recent showcasing of 450mm silicon wafers used a manufacturing system incorporating its own inkjet printheads.

Pursuit Dynamics has given notice to all its employees as it closes down operations and seeks a buyer for the company's intellectual property assets in an effort to retain some value for shareholders.

A fruitless search for potential buyers for HiWave Technologies has forced the flat panel speakers and touch screen specialist to suspend trading of its shares and seek administrators in an effort to return some value to shareholders.

A 15 per cent increase in full year dividends, another $50m share buy-back, a $152m turnaround in pretax profits, its highest share price in two years and revenues surpassing $1 billion for the first time – things have gone very well for CSR in 2012.

ARM Holdings broke the $20 billion barrier today as its share price soared to its highest valuation in 12 years on the back of final quarter results that had market expectations well beaten.

Europe's graphene and neuroscience ICT industries will be the recipients of up to €2 billion in EU funding over the next 10 years after the European Commission selected them as its two Future and Emerging Technologies (FET).

Cambridge is to step into the heart of the increasingly heated battle for graphene dominance by launching a multi-million pound, open innovation development centre to take the material from early research to a position where products, jobs and an industry can be created.