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.

Having picked up a trick or two from mentor, former boss and The Cambridge Phenomenon co-author, Charles Cotton, the co-founders of newly incorporated startup, SaleOrigin are aiming to put them to good use in building an end-to-end analytics platform for developers of mobile apps.

Computer games middleware company, Geomerics has completed a corporate partnership with a mystery partner, unlocking the last tranche of a total investment of £2.3m.

Blinkx, the world's largest video search engine and Autonomy spinout, has signed a deal with the Israeli startup AnyClip, whose stated mission is to help users find any moment in any film.

Bango has provided its mobile payment expertise to MasterCard to help the credit card provider launch its new PayPass Wallet service, which allows users to pay for items online or in-store through a one-touch process.

Knowledge Transmission says it has raised a six figure seed investment round with backing from a mixed bag of investors including Cambridge angels and publishing industry specialists to increase headcount and seek new contracts.

Red Gate Software is expanding into the Far East with a new Singapore office opening later in the year.

Three North American utilities are to deploy Ubisense's gas leak detection software to improve real-time surveying of over 11,500 miles of natural gas distribution and transmission pipelines.

Commodities software trading firm, Brady plc, has announced a new contract with what it calls one of the world's leading multi-commodity trading houses.

Less than six months after launching its first product, a tool that allows multiple co-workers to collaborate in real time on Microsoft Office applications, the Amadeus Capital-backed oneDrum has been acquired by Californian firm, Yammer.

Knowledge Transmission (KT) has landed a major partnership agreement with the owner of the hugely successful 'Teach Yourself' language range on its move into bespoke mobile solutions.

The Cambridge arm of SugarCRM has received a funding boost following the successful closing of a $33m debt and equity round.

In the same way that Facebook has positioned itself as the medium through which one in 10 of the population deliver their online social profile, Metail, a virtual fitting room service, aims to position itself as the medium through which people manage their online body identity. Read that again, if successful, this is going to be revolutionary.

Jagex in Cambridge was one of the many games companies celebrating the government’s decision to assist the industry with a massive tax break.

ViewRanger has been named best app in the Mapping/Location based sector at this year’s Appy Award Ceremony in San Francisco.

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Brady plc, the commodities trading software firm, has announced strong preliminary results for the year ending December 2011.

Cedric Deur, creator of StuStu, an online student marketplace currently targeted at students in Cambridge, is a classic case of the entrepreneur underdog story in the making.