Brady plc, the Cambridge developer of commodities trading software, will attempt to raise £18m in shares placing – approximately 40 per cent of its current market cap – in an effort to finance its expansion into the carbon emission trading and energy sectors through the acquisitions of Navita Systems for £17.1m and syseca AG for £1.2m.

Mobile payments and analytics firm, Bango was moved to issue a statement to the London Stock Exchange confirming it is closing in on a deal with a “leading platform for mobile web apps,” after its share price shot up over 11 per cent.

Commodities software firm, Brady plc, saw its stock price rise 7.5 per cent as the company announced it would be moving its entire business to a potentially more profitable and stable licence rental model and that revenue growth of 70 per cent for 2011 was ahead of market expectations.

The one Cambridge startup to make it on to the 2011 Springboard accelerator is set to abandon Cambridge for London in search of the talent it needs to make a world class web-based business.

It looks like Taptu's funding round is beginning to pay the investment back fast. The Cambridge headquartered social media aggregator has just announced two deals for its 'white label' aggregator, Tapform, developed on the back of September's £2.2m funding round, the first with national daily, The Guardian.

Handy Elephant, the Cambridge based creator of management tools for online relationships, has gone live with its web-based email app that helps users keep track of who isn't replying to emails.

Andrew Burke, CEO of internet TV company Amino Technologies, has stepped down from his role with immediate effect, to be replaced by Donald McGarva, currently the company's chief operating officer.

The share price of Cambridge mobile billing and payment specialist, Bango, rocketed this morning after it announced it had signed a contract to provide services to one of the world's largest retailers, Amazon.

Handy Elephant, the Cambridge based startup carving out a niche in social media productivity tools is set to launch a web-based email app that keeps track of who's yet to respond to your emails.

Brady plc, a software firm designing commodities trading products, has landed a deal with Finland's RAO Nordic Oy, a fully-owned subsidiary of the rapidly expanding Russian energy trading company, Inter RAO UES, which has activities in 14 countries throughout Europe and Asia.

Floxx, the grown-up startup that emerged from the ashes of controversial university flirting site, FitFinder, has raised £200,000 to market its latest app having worked with Cambridge's Chris Chapman of My Business FD.

Three entrepreneurs who have mastered the trick of how to actually make money from their online ventures, including an exit to Microsoft and a business that went from concept to paying customers in just seven weeks are to pass on their experiences at Anglia Ruskin University on Friday as part of SVc2UK.

A web app from Cambridge designed to motivate young people about what they want to do with their lives was one of eight winners of the SVc2UK Appathon.

Audio Analytics, a startup pioneering sound recognition technology for the defence and security industries has landed its first full commercial contract, licensing its technology to one of the world's leading providers of intercom systems.

A solid set of results for the first half of its financial year precipitated a sharp fall in share price at Aveva.

It was bound to come to this. Run a global competition to send a DBA into space, the gloves will come off and there'll be casualties, nothing is sacred, nothing off limits, as the sabotage of Wikipedia's Mars Rover Opportunity page demonstrates.

A Cambridge startup stole the show at the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) awards, winning the IT Innovation prize in a room full of some of the UK and world's leading engineering firms.

Autonomy spinout and video search specialist, Blinkx, is to acquire digital advertising and marketing agency, Prime Visibility Media Group (PVMG), for £22.4m.

One of the central figures behind the world's first web cam and founder of several technology startups is working on a new project which he says if he gets right will burst dramatically into the public sphere before too long.

Leading chip designer, Arm, is to support its new 20nm processor work with the acquisition of Prolific, Inc, a privately-owned Californian developer of optimisation software tools for chip designs.