Recently, I’ve been heading out to the cinema a lot more and taking time to marvel at the different experiences film makers are coming up with to suit the canvas they work with. Take recent films A Hijacking and The Great Gatsby.

On the 3rd of June, Andrew Bower walked into the Haymakers pub on the High Street, Chesterton, he ordered a half pint of Milton Icarus, took out his phone to scan a barcode and in an instant became the first person to buy a beer in a Cambridge pub using Bitcoin.

When TechStars came in for Springboard it was a great validation of the programme, superb news for any future startups. However, the announcement raised doubts about whether it would ever come back to Cambridge, a potential loss for the city that created it.

1Spatial, the big data firm providing geospatial intelligence, is to raise £18 million, €5.1m (£4.4m) of which will go on the partial acquisition of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) firm, Star-Apic.

Cognidox has launched what it describes as the world's first “extranet-as-a-service” product, XtraNet, a simple web portal for technology companies to safely share secure documents with their customers.

Consumer market potential and deep data and machine learning expertise attracts Vasco

The US internet security firm, Vasco Data Security International, says it aims to roll Cronto's products out to the mass consumer market following a deal to acquire the Cambridge University spinout for up to €17 million (£14.4m).

A Cambridge startup that claims to have created the first universal debugging technology for embedded systems, capable of operating multiple processor cores, has broken its difficult-first-contract duck, landing a breakthrough deal with network semiconductor firm, PMC-Sierra.

NXP Semiconductors, the former Royal Philips' subsidiary, has acquired Code Red Technologies, bringing the embedded software development tools created by a team of ex-ARM employees in-house and possibly out of the reach of non-NXP customers.

“Tell me something I didn't know”, says Ashley Harrison, CEO and founder of Mediafed, the only company to have ever really solved the problem of just how to make money from RSS.

The UK's Serious Fraud Office has confirmed it has opened an investigation into the circumstances of Hewlett Packard's £7.1bn acquisition of Autonomy in 2011.

Microgenius founder, Emily Mackay, is to launch a new crowdfunding aggregation web site having just announced an exit for the renewable energy crowdfunding site she went live with only five months ago.

Full year revenues may be lower than at any point in the last four years and pretax loss at its highest in five, but after one of the most important years in its history, Bango is very much on the up, a technology company readying itself for a major scale up of business and operations.

The company that acquired Cambridge RSS and social media aggregator, Taptu, at the end of last year has launched a service it believes will increase the popularity of RSS and help media companies grow advertising revenues.

Aveva plans to bring a whole new level of realism based on 3D ‘gaming technologies’ to its CAD suite following the acquisition of US firm, Global Majic Software, Inc.

Autonomy co-founder and former CEO, Dr Mike Lynch, has launched a new website in his latest salvo against Hewlett Packard (HP), the company that bought Autonomy for over $10bn and now accuses Dr Lynch and members of his former management team of accounting improprieties in the lead up to the sale in an effort to artificially inflate the company's value.

The credibility of the Cambridge technology cluster was called into question yesterday after computer giant HP accused members of the previous management team at Autonomy, the software company it acquired for £7.1 billion in 2011, of wilfully misleading potential investors and buyers, allegations strenuously denied by Autonomy founder and former CEO, Dr Mike Lynch.

Neil Davidson, one of the most prominent supporters of technology startups in Cambridge and founder of the original Springboard accelerator is to step down from his position as joint CEO of Red Gate Software, the company he founded with school friend Simon Galbraith in 1999.

Showing that web products developed for consumer markets have a role to play in the world of enterprise, location services firm, Ubisense, is leaning on the ubiquity of Google Maps to underpin its new mapping application, myWorld.

Brady Plc is to pay £6.2 million for Systems Alternatives International (SAI), the company’s third acquisition this year.