Facebook has gone live with one of the answers to its mobile business problem and started the new Bango-powered mobile payments service.

Taptu, the Cambridge startup that launched as a mobile search specialist and became one of the UK's most popular news aggregators has been acquired by RSS specialist Mediafed who is now expected to take a major tilt at the global news aggregation market dominated by Flipboard and Pulse.

Two weeks after announcing a US licensing deal, Audio Analytic has now revealed a new licence deal that will take its sound recognition technology into the Intellect Enterprise security platform of Moscow-based AxxonSoft.

An 18-month old Cambridge startup with plans to completely overhaul the computer security industry expects to close its first deals by the end of this year following the launch of its first product suite.

Record revenues for the first half of 2012 helped software firm, Brady plc, maintain a positive performance that has seen the share price for the commodities trading firm increase by 32 per cent over the last 12 months.

A web site where people can go to invest their private money into local community-led microgeneration projects in return for a premium on their investment has gone live.

The smartphone will lie at the centre of many of our secure services from shopping to boarding flights, replacing wallets, keys and passports.

Ant has warned that revenue and profit for 2012 will fall short of market expectations, sparking a sell-of in shares that saw the company's price drop 11.7 per cent to 16p a share.

Simon Woodward has left ANT plc after more than 15 years spent as CEO, during which time the company he helped grow the company into an international brand, listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Last year we reported on plans to develop a new graphics-based communication device by the Cambridge technology entrepreneur, Quentin Stafford-Fraser. Though the idea was only in its earliest form, it was a mouthwatering chance to track the progress of the new invention of a seasoned entrepreneur (RealVNC, DisplayLink, the world's first web cam).

Light Blue Optics says it is ready to start expanding the company again having sidelined its holographic laser projector to focus on software for touch technology, a strategy it says is showing early signs of success.

Amadeus' first seed fund exit, oneDrum has just become a part of Microsoft following its $1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer, providing the Redmond computer giant with a credible social media arm and a major cloud challenge to Google Docs.

You may not have heard about micro-virtualisation before, but that is all set to change – the team behind the technology that powers the cloud computing efforts of giants Amazon, Rackspace and Google has finally revealed itself, a truly disruptive technology that isolates simple computing tasks to protect machines from malware and which could spell the end for anti-virus software.

Mike Lynch has made his first public investment since the news broke that he is to leave Hewlett Packard, participating in a £1.5m funding round for Cambridge big data firm, Featurespace.

Facebook has launched a new mobile web payment system based on Bango's billing technology that could finally help the company realise significant revenues from its mobile based apps.

Today Taptu has finally brought its eponymous news and social media aggregator to the common browser and desktop with the beta release of a new HTML5 app.

Cambridge’s second largest publicly listed company is looking at the possibility of moving its headquarters away from Cambridge and the UK in search of lower taxes and less red tape.

AVEVA has raised its final dividend payment by 14 per cent following record revenue for the year, itself up by 13 per cent.

If Autonomy’s multi-billion dollar sale to Hewlett Packard did not mark the end of an era then the announcement yesterday that founder Dr Mike Lynch is to be moved aside by his new employers officially closes a chapter in the history of Cambridge’s tech cluster once and for all.

The AVEVA Group has bought out the founders of German computer aided design (CAD) company, Bocad, in a £14m cash move that it hopes will strengthen its entire suite of engineering tools.