Big hearted solicitors help raise over £12,500 for Addenbrooke's
Local solicitors and Will writers who took part in Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust’s fourth annual Make a Will Week have helped raise over £12,500 for Addenbrooke’s during the hospital’s 250th anniversary year.
CIIPM hosts an IP event with a difference
Extract Information and PSIM successfully hosted their inaugural Cambridge Information and Intellectual Property Meeting (CIIPM), bringing together people with a shared interest in IP, information and technology commercialisation for knowledge sharing and discussions.
Gather Creative launches three new client websites
Gather Creative has launched three new client websites: Louise Hobbs Consulting, The Food Marketing Expert and Abbotswood Garden Design.
Cambridge Consultants spin-out Evonetix poised to transform the synthetic biology industry
A breakthrough in DNA synthesis has led to the creation of a new spin-out company from the stable of product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants. The joint venture, supported by technology entrepreneur and venture capitalist Hermann Hauser, heralds a new era. It opens the door to the kind of rapid drug discovery that is crucial for truly personalised ‘precision’ medicine or the race…
Cambridge Index rallies 3.0%
The Cambridge index grew 3% or 548.2 points to close at 18,730.5, as nine of the top ten index heavyweights posted weekly gains.
Cambridge MP: Higher Education and Research Bill risks Britain’s international reputation
Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner will today call for the proposed Government shake-up of universities and research institutions to be put on hold.
Spin-out Breathing Buildings develops natural building ventilation technology
A Cambridge spin-out has developed a completely new way of ventilating buildings that has the potential to reduce heating bills by as much as 50 percent while drastically reducing energy consumption. The natural ventilation technology concept exploits the heat produced by people, lights, IT and even sunlight, avoiding the wasteful use of radiators.
PAF Tektiles ESD flooring supplied for numerous server rooms
Loose-lay interlocking pvc ESD floor tiles (PAF Tektiles) were selected for a roll-out server room multi-location project.
RPC Consulting expands at Chesterford Research Park
Insurance sector specialists RPC Consulting take on further space within the Mansion House to support growing actuarial software team.
Spotlight falls on the PR industry as CIPR PRide award shortlist is released
The Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has announced the shortlist for the Annual CIPR PRide Awards and regional agencies Mobas and Cirkle lead the pack with five nominations each.
More council homes made available thanks to fraud investigators
Investigations by fraud officers at Cambridge City Council have meant that 11 families have been able to move in to council properties that were found to have been illegally sub-let or abandoned.
Policing Institute aims to make region safer
Anglia Ruskin University has launched a Policing Institute for the Eastern Region (PIER), to work in partnership with police forces and other agencies across the East of England.
Greenwoods sponsors Cambridgeshire Rowing Association Town Bumps
Greenwoods Solicitors LLP is delighted to be sponsoring the Cambridgeshire Rowing Association Town Bumps again this year.
CMR Surgical secures $20.3m in Series A Financing
CMR Surgical, the private company developing a next-generation robotic system for universal minimal access surgery, announces that it has secured $20.3 million in a Series A funding round from new investors including ABB Technology Ventures (‘ABB’), LGT Global Invest (‘LGT’) and Cambridge Innovation Capital (‘CIC’).
Robot assisted surgery closer as Cambridge Medical Robotics raises $20m
Cambridge Innovation Capital is one of the new investors for Cambridge Medical Robotics, which today announces that it has secured $20.3 million in Series A funding. Robot-assisted surgery can offer all the benefits of manual minimal access surgery while crucially making life easier for the surgeon, extending their careers, and at an affordable cost.
Japanese agree $31bn ARM acquisition
Cambridge’s greatest ever technology business – chip architect ARM Holdings – is reportedly being sold to the Japanese for $31 billion (£23.4bn) – the largest deal in the UK cluster’s history by some distance and the biggest in European technology annals, writes Tony Quested of Business Weekly.
Cash for local projects as A14 scheme gears up
People living along the A14 in Cambridgeshire are being invited to apply for grants of up to £10,000 to help lock in the benefits of a major road upgrade that starts later this year.
Kickstarter success for the Cyrus soundKey
Launched on 1st July, with the aim of raising £50,000 to develop the Cyrus soundKey, the Kickstarter campaign has seen Cyrus Audio and new technology fans embrace the product with so much enthusiasm that the full amount was raised during the first few hours. The campaign will remain live until 30th July, giving ample opportunity for fans of high quality portable audio to secure their own Cyrus…
Cambridge children invent health solutions for the future NHS
Dozens of children took up the challenge to invent solutions to improve the health of local people in a competition organised by the Eastern Academic Health Science Network as part of the Health and Wellbeing Village at Cambridge Big Weekend.
Creating Cambridge Big Summer BBQ benefits EACH
When Cambridge creatives and networkers get together this Friday (22 July) for the Creating Cambridge BIG Summer BBQ, they'll be raising valuable funds for East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH) - 15% of the ticket price goes to the charity partner for this event.
UK businesses in strong position to face challenging period ahead, says KPMG
New analysis from KPMG Restructuring shows that whilst the run up to the EU Referendum created a period of uncertainty for British business, the number of companies entering insolvency across England and Wales in the second quarter of 2016 actually fell.
Brexit: Looking ahead for Cambridge’s technologies and enterprises
Cambridge Network members can join the Cambridge Enterprise and Technology Club (CETC) on 28 July for presentations, debate and Q&A on Brexit and Cambridge for the special rate of £15.
UK economy faces short sharp shock, but exports offer silver lining, says EY ITEM Club
The UK economy, post-referendum, will take a very different path to the one expected three months ago. While the fundamentals will not change in the short term, there are likely to be severe confidence effects on spending and business investment, resulting in anemic GDP growth for at least the next three years, according to the EY ITEM Club summer forecast.
Growth Commission sets out economic vision for the region
Establishing Europe’s leading high-tech region in Eastern England would create at least 10 new ‘unicorns’, new firms reaching valuations above US $1 billion, and generate nearly 1m additional jobs, according to a Growth Commission report launched last week.
Birketts boosts planning and environment law team to meet demand
Top 100 law firm, Birketts, has enhanced its planning and environmental law team with the recruitment of two highly-experienced appointments. Sue Chadwick (senior associate) and Stuart Tym (associate) both come with a wealth of knowledge and experience having advised a number of local planning authorities for many years.