HR Advice: The discrimination trap
Discrimination in the workplace can be a regulatory minefield, requiring a skilled HR team to navigate the company and keep it on the right side of the law. Santander's Breakthrough Business Editor Guy Matthews explains current thinking.
Squeaky clean new social enterprise launches in Cambridge
Wintercomfort today launches an innovative new social enterprise, Overstream Clean, providing a quality cleaning service for businesses and organisations in Cambridge – on two wheels!
UEA scoops top prize at Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards
UEA was up against a number of other leading UK universities including the University of Birmingham and University of Kent at the national award ceremony, held last night (Tuesday) in London.
SteelCentral AppInternals adds mobile support to resolve app performance issues faster
AppInternals now captures second-by-second application performance insights in a business context from device to data center
Eurotech M2M software & services leveraged by ALYT to bring the Internet of Things into homes
ALYT SmartHome Manager will be integrated with Eurotech’s Everyware Cloud M2M integration platform to enable an ecosystem of home security and automation solutions.
Celebrate your great new ideas with Cambridge News' Top Innovations 2014
Have you created something astonishing, clever and innovative over the past 12 months?
Demand more of digital, Mark Thompson will tell National Digital Conference
The ninth National Digital Conference gets underway today (Wednesday 18 June) in London with Cambridge Judge Business School’s digital guru, Dr Mark Thompson, in the chair.
Self-contained binary gas analyzer ensure fine control of hydrogen in heat treatment furnaces
Michell Instruments’ XTC601 binary gas analyzer ensures accurate control of levels of hydrogen in heat treatment furnaces during production of metal. With its small footprint, integrated display and interface, the XTC601 thermal conductivity analyzer is convenient to install and simple to use.
Mewburn Ellis 'Highly Recommended' in IAM Patent 1000, 2014
Mewburn Ellis is pleased to announce that they have been highly recommended in 'IAM 1000: The World's Leading Patent Practitioners' for their expertise in the patent prosecution field and is recognised as "one of the most prestigious attorney outfits in the country".
Landis +Gyr wins major contract from West Bengal State Electricity Distribution
Landis+Gyr, the leading global provider of integrated energy management products, has secured another big contract in India for more than one million digital meters from utility WBSEDCL, which is the public utility responsible for power distribution in the state of West Bengal and is headquartered at Kolkata.
Stunning self-portrait puts schoolboy in spotlight
Cambridge schoolboy Dave Monis is proving to be a hit with the art world, after his self-portrait was chosen to publicise an exhibition at a major London gallery.
Congratulations to Jan Flawn, CBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours List
Jan Flawn, founder of leading neurological healthcare provider PJ Care, has been made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
Paralympic gold medallist to run Birketts' Race4Business
Danny Crates, the Paralympic gold medallist from Essex, will be taking part in this year’s Birketts' Race4Business on Thursday, June 26.
ADDC & AstraZeneca to foster novel drug development among academic research community
The Academic Drug Discovery Consortium (ADDC) announced yesterday (Tuesday) a collaboration between ADDC and AstraZeneca, aimed at facilitating efforts by researchers from academia and institutions towards the discovery of novel compounds with potential pharmaceutical application.
Trainee chefs triumph in live cook-off competition
Talented young chefs from Cambridge Regional College have triumphed in the grand final of ‘A Passion to Inspire’, cooking up a feast for the region’s top chefs.
Bailey Fisher welcomes 70 tech chairmen, non-execs and investors to summer drinks
Bailey Fisher Executive Search is pleased to welcome 70 Chairmen, Non-executive Directors and investors in the technology sector to Summer Drinks at Downing College tomorrow (Thursday 19 June). This is the latest in Bailey Fisher's series of invitation-only networking events for tech Chairmen & Non-executive Directors, hosted in association with Taylor Vinters and Silicon Valley Bank.
Captum's next MasterClass focuses on Private Company Valuation
Captum's next MasterClass will be on Private Company Valuation - explaining the four basic methods of valuing unlisted companies at an introductory to intermediate level. Increased investor interest in early stage companies has highlighted the need for a broader understanding of valuations among both companies and their investors.
Hear about the neuroscience of chewing in eLife's latest podcast
The latest episode of the eLife podcast - produced for eLife by The Naked Scientists - includes the neuroscience of chewing, skin cancer, African sleeping sickness and an ancient protein complex called TSET.
AIXTRON energy management system is successfully certified
AIXTRON SE, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of deposition systems for the semiconductor industry, has obtained certification under international standard DIN EN ISO 50001 for the introduction of its new energy management system. AIXTRON is thus one of an ever growing number of companies subjecting their energy use to systematic control.
CPI collaborate with Arecor to enhance compatibility of biologic medicines with containers
The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is working with Arecor to enhance the compatibility of biologic medicines with containers, and thereby improve stability and shelf life throughout transportation and storage.
Push Energy appoints KISS Public Relations
Push Energy, a renewable energy specialist currently focussed on developing field scale solar farms, has appointed KISS PR to act as its communications agency.
WaveFX creates 3D visuals for city council cycleway improvements
Cambridge City Council wants to make it safer to cycle along routes and encourage people to commute to work, college and school by bike. It’s planning to create wider and safer cycleways, which could be segregated from other traffic as well as introducing a new type of bus stop to the city for the first time.
Enhance your people skills with the Learning Collaboration
Good business practice demands the ability to manage relationships and communicate effectively with people at all levels. Upcoming courses from Cambridge Network's Learning Collaboration will help you learn, respectively, how to handle conflict, and the gentle art of persuasion.
Riverbed SteelStore helps Wright-Pierce use cloud storage
Award-winning firm uses Riverbed to more safely and economically store CAD, GIS and other data as compared to tape and disk-to-disk backup systems
12 Norwich Research Park scientists feature in top 1% of world's most highly cited
Figures announced this month from Thomson Reuters have placed Norwich as 4th city in the UK of the world's top 1% of most highly cited scientists.