ARM joins FTSE 100 share price index
Cambridge-based chip designer ARM Holdings plc, the second largest company in the Silicon Fen cluster of high tech companies, today joined the FTSE 100 index to replace Cadbury plc, following the latter's recent delisting after takeover.
ARM now has a market capitalisation of £2.64 billion.
It is just reward for the company whose roots are deeply imbedded in the Cambridge phenomenon....
Amino toughs out 2009; seeing better conditions in 2010
Amino Technologies plc, the Cambridge-based provider of digital entertainment software for IPTV, Internet TV and in-home multimedia distribution, said its revenue for the year to end November 2009 was down 20.7% to £25.3m, while tough trading conditions tipped into an operating loss of £5.9m compared to a profit of £1.4m in 2008.
Chairman Keith Todd said: "2009 was a challenging year...
Autonomy reports strong sales, profit growth for 2009
Silicon Fen's largest publicly listed company, Autonomy Corporation plc, a global leader in infrastructure software, has reported a 47% jump in revenues to $740m for the year ended December 2009 and 55% growth in pretax profit to $323m.
The Group's share price rose 27p (1.7%) in early trading. Autonomy's market capitalisation is now over £3.8 billion, comfortably confirming it...
Silicon Fen pioneers Cambridge Consultants celebrate 50 years
Cambridge Consultants, the company described as "experts of disruptive technologies" by the Financial Times, and one of the key catalysts in the growth of what has become known as the Cambridge Cluster of high tech companies, is celebrating its 50th year of operations.
It was set up by three University of Cambridge graduates in 1960 and has grown into a...
News from Silicon Fen: Marshall partners with Plasan for armour; PneumaCare trials mobile lung scan; ipaccess boosts wireless
Marshall Land Systems and Plasan announced the formation of a joint venture to design, manufacture and market armoured solutions to the UK land, naval and where appropriate air domains.
The 50:50 JV will be based in the UK with both companies having an equal number of board members. It will be a free standing company reporting to the boards of both Marshall Land Systems and Plasan. The JV will be MLS's main centre for armouring capitalising on Plasan's ...
