Recruitment evening is a resounding success
Cambridge Network's Recruitment event last week (Thursday) attracted a host of quality candidates and was declared a huge success by exhibiting employer companies and job seekers alike.
Legal AI company ThoughtRiver accelerates international growth across three regions and hires new VP of Sales
ThoughtRiver, the market leader in intelligent legal pre-screening, has announced the appointment of Richard Cobb as vice-president of Sales, as part of the company’s continuing international growth. The Cambridge-based AI firm has experienced significant pick up across the UK, US, and APAC markets, and grown headcount across the business by 100%, over the past year.
AVEVA launches first-in-market integrated engineering, procurement and construction software solutions to improve return on capital projects
AVEVA, a global leader in engineering and industrial software, today announced the introduction of integrated engineering software designed to help customers transform the way capital projects are engineered, executed and integrated into operations and maintenance.
Bango interim results show continued growth and strong performance
Bango (AIM: BGO), the mobile commerce company, today announces its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2019.
CIC participates in CMR Surgical’s £195 million ($240 million) Series C financing
Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) takes part in Europe’s largest private financing round in the medical technology sector.
CMR Surgical raises £195 million ($240 million) in Series C financing
CMR Surgical Limited, the company developing, manufacturing and marketing the next-generation surgical robotic system, Versius®, today announces that it has raised £195 million ($240 million) to fully fund the global commercialisation of the business.
AI makes an impact in healthcare
Razvan Ionasec (EMBA 2018) has been a computer buff since his childhood in Romania. His team at Siemens has now developed an artificial intelligence-based assistant to help radiologists evaluate medical scans.
Stocks in Focus: Invesco High Income Fund
This week Alastair Macdougall of NW Brown Wealth Management looks at the Invesco High Income Fund, which has been managed since 2014 by industry veteran Mark Barnett, when he took over from departing manager Neil Woodford.
Top five things to see and do at the Duxford Battle of Britain Air Show
The Battle of Britain Air Show returns to IWM Duxford this weekend, with the site transforming into a film set in commemoration of the 1969 Battle of Britain film. Visitors can expect a mass Spitfire flypast, historic film screenings and vintage makeovers.
Samuel L Jackson stars in powerful dementia campaign to challenge misunderstanding of condition
Alzheimer’s Research UK has joined forces with Samuel L Jackson to battle the serious misconception that dementia is an inevitability of old age. The ‘#ShareTheOrange’ campaign highlights that physical diseases cause dementia using an orange to symbolise the weight of matter lost in the brain as the condition develops.
IMI Europe announces Digital Printing Conference 2019 programme
IMI Europe announces the full invited speaker and panel session programme for its strategic Digital Printing Conference event.
Former Brexit chief takes research role at Cambridge University
Philip Rycroft, the former head of the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU), has been appointed as a distinguished honorary researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy and POLIS at the University of Cambridge.
ARU researcher scoops tinnitus award hat-trick
Dr Eldré Beukes of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) has been awarded a prestigious research prize for the third year in succession.
UltraSoC opens engineering centre in Poland and accelerates its global expansion
UltraSoC CEO Rupert Baines visited Warsaw last month to officially open the company’s new development centre, as the company kick-started the process of recruiting a team of software engineers and data scientists to support the growth of its embedded analytics business worldwide.
Mologic and University College London Hospitals collaborate in major clinical trial for early detection of sepsis
Mologic Ltd, a leading developer of lateral flow and rapid diagnostic technologies, services and products, announced that it has finished recruitment to a major clinical trial with University College London Hospitals (UCLH) to evaluate the Company’s point-of-care (POC) diagnostic test for the early detection of sepsis.
Exam feedback reports impact satisfaction
If you work in Higher Education, you'll know that student satisfaction is a top priority.
How can your onboarding process support employee engagement from the outset?
A key part of employee engagement is not only finding the right people in the first place, but also providing an effective onboarding process which creates engagement from the point of making a job offer.
Plextek and CNIguard develop new IoT system to prevent manhole cover explosions and fires on city streets
UK engineering and design consultancy, Plextek ,has been working with US-based CNIguard to develop a new IoT-based system to prevent manhole explosions, primarily caused by bad weather and flooding interacting with aging underground power infrastructures. For example, a mixture of melting snow and road salt can wash into manholes, leading to the electricity cables arcing. The first city…
Repositive appoints new Head of Strategic Growth and leading commercial advisers to drive scale-up
Repositive – the Cambridge-based startup that connects researchers with the right preclinical cancer models for their research – today announced the appointment of Slaven Stekovic as Head of Strategic Growth, along with leading commercial experts (Mariana Vaschetto and Francesca Crawford) to its advisory board, to drive the company’s scale-up and global growth ambitions within the pharma and…
One in five surgeons set to retire early due to physical toll
Survey exposes the physical impact on surgeons of conducting minimal access/keyhole procedures that threaten to shorten surgical careers and put further pressure on health systems.
Tencent funds postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Engineering
Technology giant Tencent has made a generous gift to fund a new five-year postdoctoral research fellowship in the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering, one of the leading centres of engineering in the world.
UKRI-funded pioneering data research centres to enable cutting-edge research and innovation to benefit UK patients
Pioneering data hubs that enable cutting-edge research for health discoveries and aim to give patients across the UK faster access to pioneering new treatments will be rolled out next month.
Programme announced for TWI Hellas Innovation Summit
The TWI Hellas Innovation Summit – a one-day conference for European SMEs and research and technology organisations (RTOs) seeking technology partners – is taking place on 7 November 2019 at the President Hotel in Athens, Greece.
'The Lost Words - forget-me-not' are written in stone
A new exhibition, 'The Lost Words - forget-me-not', which opens in Cambridge soon, shows artworks created by letter carvers featuring words from nature that have been deleted from the Oxford Children's Junior Dictionary. Conker, bluebell, newt and weasel have been replaced with website, celebrity and blog...
Arm joins CXL - establishing key industry standard to streamline heterogeneous compute
Compute Express Link (CXL) is a new high-speed CPU interconnect interface to accelerators and memory expansion. Arm joins forces in CXL with industry leaders Alibaba, Facebook, Google and Microsoft and hardware providers Cisco, Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Huawei and Intel Corporation, aiming to develop the necessary specifications.