Barclays launches Eagle Labs – helping UK start-ups to take flight
Barclays is opening up branch and office space around the country in order for UK start-up and scale-up businesses to co-locate, collaborate and grow. Barclays first UK incubator is based in Cambridge.
Amadeus invests in India’s largest online marketplace, IndiaMART
IndiaMART, India’s largest online marketplace, announced that it has raised a new round of financing led by Amadeus Capital with participation from Westbridge Capital, the Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund, managed by Quona Capital in addition to Intel Capital, the existing investor in the Company.
GetSet and Enterprising Women celebrate 10 years of supporting women in business
As we wave good-bye to another International Women’s Day, GetSet for Growth and sister organisation Enterprising Women are making March a month of it as they celebrate EW’s 10th birthday and try to keep support for women in business on the agenda for a little longer.
Cambridge Style Week takes Arthur Rank Hospice Charity onto the catwalk
An exciting week of high fashion fused with community collaboration in Cambridge is set to raise awareness and funds for Arthur Rank Hospice Charity next week.
Spotted Gar genome links humans to vertebrate ancestry
The Spotted Gar is an unusual fish whose genome sequence has been released in a recent study highlighted in Nature Genetics.This fish has surprising genetic similarities to many vertebrate animals - including humans.
Cambridge Science Festival examines the state of conservation
With the latest news concerning Facebook users exploiting the popular social media site as a means to traffic endangered animals, conservation issues remain firmly on the global agenda.
IDS and Altia team up to provide GUI development workshops
UK engineers and computer scientists will have two opportunities next month to advance their skills in graphical user interface (GUI) design.
Secure telephone specialist C3 upgrades vital prison platform
Cambridge computer telephony specialist C3 has completed a full upgrade of a secure prison phone system which allows inmates to talk to their family on the outside. The platform, used in some of the UK’s highest profile prisons and secure hospitals, has been enhanced and given a complete technology refresh at Isle of Man Prison.
Cambridge Filmworks breaks the ice with new television documentary
Local Fenland ice skaters are being celebrated in a brand new documentary to be broadcast on national television.
Personal tax: quick wins to save tax before the end of the tax year
On the run up to 5 April, there are always ways to make the best use of the various allowances to save tax and therefore enhance the return that you can achieve with your money, says Duncan Wilson of Price Bailey.
Birketts examines 'The finer points of construction law'
Birketts is holding its latest construction law seminar series in April at venues across the Eastern region.
Women in business: looking beyond corporate boards
Director term limits and corporate governance codes, but not quotas, help boost female representation in top executive positions, finds a new study from Cambridge Judge Business School and the 30% Club.
Cambridge Marketing College reports outstanding results
Cambridge Marketing College (CMC) has just received the results from the most recent (December 2015) CIM and CAM assessments and once again its results have been outstanding.
Women-led businesses are 'driving force' of UK economy
In a global first, new analysis - based on open-government and LinkedIn data-sets - reveals how companies led by women grow, perform and rank - identifying the fastest-growing and most dynamic women-led businesses across the UK.
A long term partner for point-of-care ultrasound
The Anaesthesia Department at Queen’s Hospital, part of the Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has been using FujiFilm SonoSite point-of-care ultrasound systems since they were first introduced in the UK, and has recently taken delivery of its first X-Porte.
MedImmune receives fast track designation in the US for influenza antibody
AstraZeneca has announced that its global biologics research and development arm, MedImmune, has received Fast Track designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its investigational human monoclonal antibody (mAb), MEDI8852, for the treatment of patients hospitalised with Type A strain influenza.
Six women doing excellent things with Raspberry Pi
Yesterday was International Women’s Day, and the Raspberry Pi Foundation marked the day by celebrating six women who are doing really wonderful things with Raspberry Pi. Read the blog post here...
Buying a 16 plate? Beware changes down the road...
Tim Ridyard of Woodfines Cambridge explains the changes that will be made to car tax (Vehicle Excise Duty) from next year. If you are planning to purchase a new car between now and 1st April 2017, you may want to start planning the type of vehicle you intend buying as, in some cases, delaying your purchase until after 1st April 2017 could add significant cost.
Freedom to evolve with Tecan’s Freedom EVO® 75
Researchers at the Complutense University of Madrid are using directed evolution techniques to develop new enzymes for a variety of bioprocessing applications.
Multi-million pound boost to take Cambridgeshire fibre broadband rollout even further
The success of Cambridgeshire’s superfast broadband programme has brought a multi-million pound boost to help rollout high speed fibre technology to even more homes and businesses.
Cambridge Consultants works with Smart Drawer on novel retail technology
New intelligent cash drawer technology is set to help reduce retail fraud and streamline cash counting – at a fraction of the price of existing systems.
The new deal on personal data: Part 2
There has been a mixed response to Privacy Shield – a new mechanism for safeguarding the privacy of personal data transferred from the EU to the United States. Rhys Williams of Taylor Vinters explains.
Embedded Linux workshop offers quick start guide
The organisers of the 2016 UK Device Developers' Conference have announced that this year's event will include a half-day workshop entitled "The Embedded Linux Quick Start Guide", providing hands-on training for delegates wishing to explore Linux for embedded systems development.
Finite element analysis – predicting the real world
Alongside product design processes, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) can be used to model product structure and how it will respond to stress, and from this to predict any possibility of structural failure. Cambridge Design Technology explains.
T®ump: personality IP rights
One of the many unique features of this year's US presidential nominations campaign is that the most likely (at this point) Republican candidate is also unique in being the one candidate who owns any significant IP/trade mark rights.