Time's up! Please don't over-run when speaking
This could be the most important rule of all in public speaking. Ignore it at your peril; it could undermine all that hard work you put in, says communication coach Jon Torrens.
Fishy end to Headway's 2008 balloon race
A charity balloon race was organised for Headway Cambridgeshire in 2008, kindly organised by a small group of supporters to raise funds for the charity. But no one could have predicted what happened several years later...
ZEISS and TNO establish partnership to enable development of next-gen lithography optics
ZEISS and TNO announced that they have established a strategic partnership aimed to enable next-generation optics for semiconductor manufacturing.
Athey Consulting completes third national report on LEP economies
Athey Consulting’s latest report for the LEP Network, released to LEPs on 31 March 2014, reveals a series of insights for local economies in England. The overall message is one of confidence and capability across the Local Enterprise Partnership area economies, but that the scale of challenges differs.
Provoke Me and Gratnells partner to develop Learning Rooms classroom initiative
UK based manufacturer Gratnells has been leading the world in the design and creation of bespoke storage solutions for the education sector for more than 100 years. They approached Cambridge design agency Provoke Me to create a new website and extranet for launch at a forthcoming education exhibition... the timescale for completion? Just 10 days!
Cambridge MFin graduates report 93% employment success
Cutbacks in recruitment in the financial sector have failed to dampen the performance of Cambridge Master of Finance (MFin) graduates.
Cordic launches Smart Booker 2 for iPhone and Android
Cordic, the leading software supplier of data despatch solutions to taxi and private hire fleets, has today launched its new and improved iPhone and Android application: Smart Booker 2.
Top civil engineering student honoured
Andrew McCloud has been awarded the Institution of Civil Engineers East of England Best Student Award where candidates are nominated by their tutors. Andrew is a part-time civil engineering student at Suffolk New College and was nominated by tutor Chris Hughes.
Cambridge Junction awarded £124,663 for pioneering digital arts project
Cambridge Junction and key partners Cambridge University Faculty of Education and The Raspberry Pi Foundation are pleased to announce that they are to be the recipients of a grant of £124,663 from the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts towards a pioneering project developing the making of music using the Raspberry Pi computer.
Riverbed introduces Cascade Express 460 Virtual Edition
Network performance monitoring in private clouds and the software-defined data center.
Huppert calls on government to act over AstraZeneca takeover bid
MP Julian Huppert has expressed his concerns over the risk to AstraZeneca’s planned move to Cambridge and the future of UK jobs as American pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer makes a bid to take over the company.
Internet of Things: node potential of 10 billion yearly
"By 2025, tens of billions of smart objects will be internet enabled with IP addresses..."
Will Bitcoin hit the big time in 2014?
Is Bitcoin a currency or a commodity? Is it a safe alternative to traditional money? What is required for it to be adopted more widely? Will 2014 be the breakthrough year for Bitcoin?
Enterprise Tuesday triumphs again
The 2013/2014 Enterprise Tuesday series of free evening lectures and networking sessions attracted over 1,400 registrations and, on average, 300 people to each weekly session.
Imagine a world with wind turbines in every neighbourhood
When Professor Richard McMahon closes his eyes, he sees a future powered by the wind. He envisions a day when wind turbines are as common as trees in the courtyards at the University of Cambridge.
Creating sustainable growth and jobs for smaller firms in the East of England
A Government Minister visited Cambridge yesterday (Tuesday) to meet some of the 100 firms currently benefiting from a programme to create and safeguard jobs across the East of England.
MedImmune expands University System of Maryland research collaboration
MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, and the University System of Maryland announced that the initial research collaboration between MedImmune and the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) has been expanded.
Success for Managers Tip #64: A magic formula for curing stress
Madeleine Morgan of Growu writes: Have you ever pictured a future event and imagined it turning out badly?
From ice cream to Africa – via online retail
From selling ice cream in Yorkshire to planning a life of social entrepreneurship in Africa, David Thomson’s career journey is certainly not without ambition and variety.
'There are alternatives if the bank says no'
Perhaps more needs to be done to increase awareness that other lenders are available when the bank says no?
Fracking comes to Cambridge
The Cleanpower 2014 Conference at Cambridge University in June sees a fracking session with talks on Risks and rewards of fracturing for shale gas; Emissions measurement in fracking; Separating myth from reality - fracking and the social licence; Experiences of shale development in the EU; and Keynote: The impact of the US shale gas revolution on UK gas security.
Bailey Fisher works with Horizon Discovery on Operations Director search
Bailey Fisher Executive Search is pleased to be working with Horizon Discovery Group plc, the Cambridge-based life science company supplying research tools to organisations tailoring personalised medicines for patients’ genetic make-up.
SCC accelerates strategic growth with acquisition of print services firm M2
SCC has strengthened its print services division with the acquisition of M2 Digital Limited, the UK’s leading independent managed print services business.
Birketts advises on the sale of The Dental Directory
Leading East Anglian law firm, Birketts, has advised the owner of The Dental Directory on its sale to Integrated Dental Holdings (IDH), one of Britain’s largest corporate dental services providers, in one of the largest corporate finance deals in the region this year.