Cambridge Science Centre, the not-for-profit startup aiming to build a permanent science discovery centre in the city has come up with an innovative means of test-driving its approach and building its reputation around the world.
With HP's acquisition of Autonomy last year, Arm now stands alone as top dog in the Cambridge cluster, the city's largest independent technology company with a market cap of £7.9bn and revenues for 2011 close to half a billion pounds. And it looks like it will continue that way for the foreseeable future.
Printed solar cells startup Eight19 has officially launched its £5m Series B funding round and expects to close it by next quarter.
Cleantech spin-out Eight19 has announced a new development and printing facility at its Cambridge headquarters.
Solar company Eight19 has launched a £200,000 fund to finance the roll out of its pay-as-you-go solar lighting products into rural African off-grid communities.
Domino Printing Sciences has acquired the five per cent left outstanding in Thermoscribe from its 2006 deal when it purchased 95 per cent of the Swedish group. Thermoscribe is a holding company for Mectec Electronik, developer of print and apply labelling equipment. Domino will pay approximately £2.9 million for the outstanding shares.
Antenova, the high tech developer of embedded antennas for mobile devices, says it is has been selected by three leading Korean manufacturers of vehicle black boxes for their global markets.
It seems it isn't only computer science that Raspberry Pi wants to shake up. The announcement that mass production of its first extremely low-cost computers had begun was accompanied with a broadside fired at a tax policy it says hurts the UK economy by rewarding overseas manufacturing.
Nasdaq-listed semiconductor firm, Mindspeed Technologies, is to pay up to $76.8 million (£49.5m) for Pichochip, a small cell base station developer headquartered in Bath with an office in Cambridge.
Raspberry Pi, the charity promising to provide $25 computers in an effort to make the world more computer programming literate has put its first devices up for sale, except they're not going for $25, but over $2,500.
Shares in Pursuit Dynamics – or PDX – plunged to their lowest level in two and a half years as the market reacted to a massive increase in pretax loss and a money raising effort that priced the company stock at less than half its opening price this morning.
CSR is to slash a further 400 jobs following a decision to discontinue investing in digital television system on chip (DTV SoC) and silicon tuner work, having already committed to a 400 reduction after its acquisition of Zoran in the summer.
