Tame your computer - bring Quick Parts to the table
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year! - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she describes how to save and insert frequently used tables (Word and Outlook).
Thought Machine raises $83m in series B funding
Thought Machine, the cloud native core banking technology firm, has raised $83 million to drive the next phase of its growth. The funding will strengthen Thought Machine’s mission to transform banking by deploying modern cloud-native systems and continue investment in its core engineering capability. The funding will also be used to drive Thought Machine’s global expansion into Asia Pacific.
TTP plc enters into exclusive licence agreement with DiaSorin to commercialise molecular diagnostics platform
Cambridge, UK, and Saluggia, Italy: TTP plc, a leading independent technology and product development company, and DiaSorin, a global leader in the in vitro diagnostic (IVD) field, have signed an exclusive licence and technology transfer agreement.
The government announces its vision for the UK's future relationship with the EU
The government has revealed that it will try and negotiate to remain in the Horizon Europe Research programme post-Brexit.
CN Bio Innovations raises $9 million USD (c. £6.9 million GBP)
CN Bio Innovations (CN Bio), a leading cell culture company that has developed organ-on-chip laboratory instruments to improve the accuracy and efficiency of drug discovery, today announced it has raised $9 million USD (circa £6.9 million GBP) investment, led by CITIC Securities Investment Co., Ltd., and supported by existing investor CN Innovations Holdings Ltd.
PolyProx Therapeutics raises an additional £1m seed financing to validate polyproxin® drug leads in oncology
PolyProx Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of novel biopharmaceuticals for the treatment of cancer, today announces that it has raised an additional £1 million seed capital from new investor, LifeArc.
Evonetix raises $30 million USD (£23 million GBP)
Evonetix Ltd, the synthetic biology company developing a desktop platform for scalable, high-fidelity and rapid gene synthesis, today announced the successful close of its Series B funding. The Company has raised $30 million USD (£23 million GBP) in this round, which was led by new investor Foresite Capital.
UK-Canadian projects aim to support the development of responsible artificial intelligence
Ten UK-Canada projects aim to support the responsible development of artificial intelligence (AI), including ensuring all members of society trust AI and benefit from it.
Cambridge curator awarded fellowship which provides time and resources to boost research
Jody Joy, Senior Curator at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, has been announced by The Headley Trust and Art Fund as one of the four successful recipients of the second round of the Headley Fellowships with Art Fund, a major national funding programme for museums professionals.
The importance of data privacy
Data Privacy Day is an international day held on 28th January every year. It is a day to raise awareness about the importance of protecting data, respecting privacy, safeguarding data and enabling trust. We share so much online of our personal life and information that we often fail to understand that we are revealing more than we realise. It is important that we read and research about this day…
Here's to haggling
So many people hate it, but it's a critical business skill... and here, Director of Media, Public Relations and Design firm Creative Warehouse, Simon Hall, offers a thought about how to do it well...
In the week that Mobile World Congress didn’t happen in Barcelona, could this be the end of the road for massive trade shows?
As fears of international travel continue, this week’s empty halls at Mobile World Congress (MWC), have given rise to the question of the place of massive international trade shows in a post-climate-crisis world.
SmithsonHill trailblazes US – UK AgriTech business relationships post-Brexit
SmithsonHill return to the UK following a successful delegation to St Louis’s AgriTech cluster.
AVEVA announces its European Simulation Academic Competition to further research into solving global engineering problems
Run in conjunction with renowned chemical engineer Dr Richard Turton, a new European competition offers the winner an internship at AVEVA in California.
Cognidox announces the release of Cognidox v10
Cognidox’s commitment to improving usability and cross platform accessibility continues with the release of v10.
Children’s book captures magic of first match
Sheffield United’s Bramall Lane ground is the setting for a new children’s picture book, all about the excitement of going to a football match for the first time.
Global health worker shortage prompts partnership action
A Cambridge partnership is taking action in the face of a predicted shortfall of 18 million health workers globally in the next decade.
Graphcore secures additional $150 million in new capital and reports fiscal 2019 business highlights
Graphcore has secured an additional $150 million in new capital to secure its position as the leading pure-play machine intelligence AI processor company.
Biocair participates in cell and gene webinar alongside HemaCare and Beam Therapeutics
Christopher Good, Director of Cell and Gene Therapy Logistics at Biocair, will explore ongoing material sourcing challenges for organisations moving from development to clinical and commercial manufacturing in an upcoming webinar taking place on 12 March 2020.
Landowners hold key to development in the Oxford Cambridge Arc
Country landowners hold the key to unlocking pockets of potential development land which are crucial to the government's ambition to build one million new homes in the region by 2050, according to housebuilder Grace Homes.
Cambridge Science Festival: what will we be eating in the future?
From a giant banana and purple tomatoes to algae and insects, this year’s Cambridge Science Festival explores the future of food and asks, what and how will we be eating 100 years from now?
Graduate Rachel cooks up exciting new project
Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) graduate Rachel Stubbs is currently cooking up a treat, after teaming up with Great British Bake Off winner David Atherton to produce a new book for children.
Marshall fuelled by 100 percent green electricity
Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group has switched to a 100 percent renewable electricity supply, as part of its ongoing commitment to reduce its environmental impact.
Using pull requests in device software development
New blog by Team Consulting's Thomas Watts: What are pull requests and how do they work? The pros and cons of a pull request reviews system of code revision during software development.
Criticism can boost creativity, says study
Bosses have thicker skin than assumed, so companies can boost performance by encouraging negative feedback of superiors by staff, says study co-authored by Dr Yeun Joon Kim of Cambridge Judge Business School.