How to keep employees working well through January
If the winter weather and post-Christmas credit card bills have got employees feeling blue this month, the HR Dept has some simple and effective ways to get your #SME workforce back on track, in this month's blog.
Bango announces directorate change
Bango (AIM: BGO), the mobile commerce company, today announces that David Sear has stepped down from the Board after nine years as Chair, in line with corporate governance best practice. David has served as Chair since February 2011, a period during which Bango has built its market-leading position in app store payments and data monetization.
Free books at CIM event - 'Journalism in the Digital Age'
The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) Marketing Club will be giving away ten free copies of 'Press-Ganged: Journalism's Shaky Start to the Digital Age' by Mike Scialom – the speaker at their next event.
Adder kick-starts 2020 with multi-million dollar global expansion
Adder Technology, a specialist in connectivity solutions and high performance IP KVM, today announced the results of a multi-million dollar global investment strategy with the completion of a significant expansion and refurbishment of its global headquarters in Cambridge, UK, as well as new offices in America and Europe and new 24/7 Professional Services offering.
BroadbandUK partners with Origin Broadband
BroadbandUK is partnering with Origin Broadband to provide broadband speed testing capability.
From the ‘brick’ to new foldable phones: the history of the mobile form factor
During the past 25 years the mobile form factor has evolved into many different designs. Jack Melling of Arm looks at the evolution of mobile form factors and considers where they could be heading in the future...
Horizon Discovery grants a multi-product use licence of its GS knockout CHO K1 cell line to NGM Bio
Horizon Discovery Group plc, a global leader in the application of gene editing and gene modulation for cell line engineering, today announced that it will license its gene-edited Glutamine Synthetase (GS) knockout Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) K1 cell line to NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NGM).
Birketts advises on sale of leading order and warehouse management solutions provider Mintsoft Limited
Birketts has advised the owners of leading order and warehouse management solutions business, Mintsoft Limited, on its sale to prominent software provider, The Access Group.
Hospital hosts Singapore surgeons on fact-finding mission
A world-leading team at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, assisted a group of Singapore clinicians on a two week fact-finding mission about cutting-edge surgery.
How lads’ village pub crawl led to £3.5k boost for EACH
A group of lads have been on a pub crawl in Burwell and managed to raise £3,561.94 for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) in the process.
New year, new future for girls in rural Zambia
Thanks to the generosity of the UK public, doubled by UK Aid Match, CAMFED’s young women leaders are implementing their unique solution for girls at risk of child marriage.
New firefighter apprentices make history at London Stansted
Two women are blazing a trail at London Stansted after becoming the first female firefighters to join the ranks of the airport’s fire and rescue service.
PhoreMost enters multi-project drug discovery collaboration with Otsuka Pharmaceutical
PhoreMost Limited, the UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to drugging ‘undruggable’ disease targets, announced it has entered into a multi-project collaboration with Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., the world-leading pharmaceutical company dedicated to the research and development of highly-innovative drugs and diagnostics.
Win a free onsite GC gas supply & plumbing health check
Would you like an independent health check of your gas supply and plumbing to help you reduce helium usage in your laboratory? Find out more and enter the draw to win a FREE onsite GC Gas Supply & Plumbing Health Check training course.
New system enables rapid discovery and manufacture of next-generation cell therapies
MIT spin-out company Kytopen has engaged Cambridge Consultants to co-develop the first Flowfect™ system.
Stocks in Focus: Pennon Plc
This week Girish Ramrous of NW Brown Wealth Management looks at Pennon Plc, following reports last week that it is preparing to sell off its waste management division, Viridor.
Cambridge Index climbs 1.1%
The Cambridge Index advanced 298.3 points or 1.1% to close at 27,950.5, as three of the top five Index heavyweights posted weekly gains to their share prices.
Growth Architects: How to reduce your Google Ads budget with in-market audiences
Late last year (2019) in-market audiences were introduced to both Google and Bing (Google Ads' somewhat u
Cambridgeshire businesses cut carbon and save money
This week is Big Energy Saving Week. Small and medium sized businesses are urged to sign up for a free energy efficiency review, to become less wasteful, use less energy, cut carbon and cut costs in their business.
More affordable homes for Huntingdonshire and Cambridge after funding agreed
The Housing and Communities Committee of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority has approved funding for 81 affordable homes at sites across Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire.
Working in the construction industry
The Construction industry is one of the largest in the UK economy.
How can we deal with the ‘P’ word?
Plastic has become a malevolent symbol of our wasteful society. It’s also fundamental to almost every aspect of our lives. How do we shift our ‘take, make, throw-away’ plastic world towards ‘recycle, recover, re-use’? Experts, including Dr Khaled Soufani, Director of the Circular Economy Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School, offer their thoughts.
Astronomers use ‘cosmic echo-location’ to map black hole surroundings
Most black holes are too small on the sky for us to determine their immediate environment, but we can still explore these mysterious objects by watching how matter behaves as it nears, and falls into them.
Pure’s Mark Colton celebrates promotion to Managing Consultant
Pure, the professional recruitment company for the East of England, has promoted Mark Colton to the role of Managing Consultant.
Council awards £120,959 to projects supporting South Cambridgeshire to become zero carbon
The 19 community projects that will receive £120,959 to help South Cambridgeshire become zero carbon have been revealed.