Cambridge Consultants, the company credited by many as being the founding father of the Cambridge Phenomenon, birthplace of several high tech stars and even clusters, has spun out its first company in almost 10 years.
Business aviation in Cambridge is mapping a new course following the decision by Marshall Group to award ExecuJet Europe the tender to manage Cambridge Airport's FBO business.
Two of Cambridge’s most successful entrepreneurs, Hermann Hauser and David Cleevely have laid out their vision for a radical new approach to intellectual property that they believe could dramatically increase Cambridge University’s revenues and remove some of the barriers currently faced by potential spin-outs.
One of the four programmes backed to the tune of £40k by ideaSpace to accelerate startup growth launched its inaugural event this week in Cambridge.
Cambridge Science Centre’s plans to create a permanent science discovery centre in the centre of Cambridge within the next three to four years have received some heavyweight backing.
A week of swings and roundabouts for Arm, with the warm glow engendered by the unveiling of an Arm-compatible Windows 8 operating system tempered somewhat by news - announced on the same day - that Google is optimising its Android mobile operating system for Intel chips.
Following the sale of Autonomy, attention has turned back to Arm and whether it will be sold. However, as well as denying any such sale is happening and consistently telling us it makes no business sense to the acquirer, Arm directors have now cashed in over £3m worth of shares between them in the last two weeks.
A week of typical stock market grind this week, no multi-billion acquisitions, though a reminder that Cambridge firms do pay hundreds of millions for US companies, not just the other way around.
The difficulty in raising angel money in Cambridge for what appeared to be a white hot startup is spurring Intergence Systems CEO, Peter Job, to push for a Cambridge-based incubator in the style of Silicon Valley's Plug and Play Tech Center.
Last week, Cabume provided a run down of the Cambridge networks relevant to the technology and entrepreneurial community and found a staggering 47 network groups.
