McTear Williams & Wood opens a London office and makes two new senior appointments
Anthony Davidson joins McTear Williams & Wood as a partner based in London and Mike Barker joins as an associate in a senior business development role.
Stop Press: update on the Basic Payment Scheme
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) announced on 19th March 2015 that, due to a number of technical problems with the new online system for making Basic Payment Scheme applications, they will (in some cases) be reverting to the old paper-based system for this year’s claims. Francesca Tuckerman of Hewitsons explains.
Avidity's Adrian Howson speaks on capturing and exploiting innovation
Adrian Howson of Avidity is key speaker today at a conference on Higher Apprenticeships organised by Pera Training on behalf of the European Social Fund.
Repositive Ltd raises £300k seed funding to launch genomic data discovery platform
Repositive Ltd, the spin-out of the charity DNAdigest, is building a platform where genomic scientists can make their research data sets discoverable to their peers and find other researchers working with similar datasets.
James Dyson Award 2015 opens for entries
‘Design something that solves a problem’ - The James Dyson Award challenges young engineers and scientists around the world to develop their problem solving ideas.
AstraZeneca joins Genomics England consortium
AstraZeneca today announced that it has joined a public-private consortium with Genomics England to accelerate the development of new diagnostics and treatments arising from the 100,000 Genomes Project.
Acne sufferers 'see the difference' with Lumie Clear
Lumie Clear, the hand-held light therapy device for treating acne from Cambridge-based light therapy specialists Lumie, is achieving remarkable results in the current ‘See The Difference’ campaign.
Telemarketing is like trying to find a needle in a haystack!
This article applies the metaphor 'like finding a needle in a haystack' to telemarketing. It does this by focusing on three different ways that you can make the haystack smaller to get the results you want from telemarketing.
Study finds GB’s most extroverted, agreeable and emotionally stable regions
A survey of almost 400,000 British residents has highlighted significant differences in personalities between regions.
Riverbed platform solutions power Dudek’s expansion as highly efficient hybrid enterprise
Riverbed SteelHead, SteelHead Mobile and SteelFusion create a scalable infrastructure for Dudek that provides fast access to apps, data, and people
Doing Words at the Court of St James's
Doing Words Communications MD Kaye Coleman-Rooney was one of a team of business advisors associated with Accelerate Cambridge invited to mentor competing entrepreneurs at HRH The Duke of York's Pitch@Palace 3.0 event this month.
Enigma People Solutions sponsors Scottish hi-tech Developers' Conference
Technology recruitment company Enigma People Solutions has agreed to be a lead sponsor of this year's Scottish embedded systems and realtime software conference.
How design can amplify the impact of scientific research
Design Council is part of the government’s innovation ecosystem.
Pilot revisits the Whirwind helicopter he flew, now on display at IWM Duxford
Pilot Jerry Grayson visited IWM Duxford this week to see the Westland Whirlwind helicopter he flew, which is now on display in the AirSpace exhibition.
Solarflare: 1 of the hottest privately held security & networking companies by JMP Securities
Solarflare's Real-Time, Distributed, Active Monitoring and Security Defends Against DDOS Attacks, Data Theft, Unauthorized Access, Hostile Intrusions and Advanced Persistent Threats
Cambridge tests for Marathon des Sables runners
Runners competing in the Marathon des Sables, one of the world’s greatest endurance tests, are undergoing tests of a different kind in Cambridge this week.
AMC Health and Qualcomm enhance connectivity and virtual care coordination
Qualcomm Life, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), and AMC Health, a privately held provider of ‘real-time’ patient management solutions, today announced a collaborative effort to accelerate the transformation of chronic care and population health management by significantly enhancing connectivity and care coordination for at-risk patients, specifically those with heart…
Horizon Discovery Group plc and partners awarded up to £6.2M funding
Horizon Discovery Group plc, the international life science company supplying research tools and services that power genomics research and the development of personalised medicines, announced today that a consortium led by the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) on behalf of UCB Celltech and Lonza Biologics and including Horizon as a full partner, has been awarded £6.2 million as part of the…
Cambridge awarded £18 million in funding to support UK infrastructure research
The University of Cambridge will receive £18 million in funding to ensure that the UK’s infrastructure is resilient and responsive to environmental and economic impacts, as announced by the Chancellor in last week’s budget. The Cambridge funding will be used to support research in the application of advanced sensor technologies to the monitoring of the UK’s existing and future infrastructure,…
Animals ‘predict’ earthquakes – new study
For the first time scientists have been able to capture and document how the behaviour of wild animals changes prior to an earthquake – a development which may help with short-term seismic forecasting.
Budget 2015 - amendment to income tax rules for self-employed farmers
It was announced last week that the Government plans to extend the period over which self-employed farmers can average their profits for income tax purposes. Stephanie Dennis of Hewitsons explains the implications.
Schlumberger and Chevron Energy Technology Company sign software agreement
Schlumberger announced the signing of a long-term software contract with Chevron Energy Technology Company (ETC), a division of Chevron USA Inc. The new contract provides universal access to the Petrel* E&P software platform across Chevron’s entire earth sciences organisation.
Donations top £40k in campaign to expand Cambridge’s Centre for Computing History
Generous backers have already pledged more than £40,000 to fund the expansion of Cambridge's Centre for Computing History, according to the Cambridge News.
Jukedeck wins Pitch@Palace 3.0
University start-up Jukedeck, founded by Faculty of Music graduate Ed Rex, won big this week at Pitch@Palace 3.0, an event spearheaded by HRH The Duke of York to identify the most promising technology start-ups.
Cambridge Building Society launches a responsive website
A new responsive website has been launched by The Cambridge Building Society to give a better viewing experience for customers using the site on their smart phone or tablet.