Virtual Reality: experience is believing
Sarah Reakes, Managing Director at KISS, reflects on her recent VR experience and wonders how this can be applied to marketing.
Prospective Mayor Peter Dawe seeks Peterborough running mate
Cambridgeshire-based social entrepreneur Peter Dawe, who has already declared his intention to seek election as Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mayor next May, is seeking a Peterborough-based co-mayor to partner him.
Low-carbon business awards: applications open for Shell Springboard
Applications are now open for the Shell Springboard low carbon business award programme - with a top prize of £150,000. Applications will be accepted until 5pm Friday, 28 October 2016.
Glittering Gala Dinner raises over £320,000 for Addenbrooke’s Hospital
A glittering Gala Dinner held at Trinity College to celebrate Addenbrooke's Hospital's 250-year anniversary has smashed its £250,000 fundraising target.
Method goes full throttle with new motorsport client win
Brand communications agency Method welcomes British Superbike star to its client family.
What’s in the Cresset Discovery Services virtual screening toolbox?
Find out in Cresset's computational chemistry newsletter
Have your cake and eat it for Macmillan's World's Biggest Coffee Morning
The World's Biggest Coffee Morning, in support of Macmillan Cancer Support, is back and Daniel Zeichner MP is hosting a coffee morning on Friday.
Cutting-edge art heads to Cambridge hairdressers!
Contemporary art festival, sponsored by Anglia Ruskin, is back and bigger than ever
Security, Intelligence and the Cloud, the 3 Pillars of Microsoft Ignite
What are we learning in Microsoft Ignite week? Well, the focus is interesting: Security - always gets a big crowd, and quite rightly so. Intelligence- Where all the fun stuff happens to help us make better business decisions. The Cloud - with a key message to the IT teams to get comfy - it's going to be alright. Let's take a look at these 3 pillars in light of this week's announcements so far:
Career Ready is seeking mentors now for STEM students
UK charity Career Ready is recruiting volunteer mentors now to support STEM students at local sixth forms and colleges across Cambridge. Could you make a difference to the life of a young person?
LYCOTEC Innovation enters World Cinema and Glamour
Last week the technology rich innovation anti-ageing beauty chocolate, ESTHECHOC, developed by Cambridge based company Lycotec Ltd was presented at the 73rd Venice Film Festival.
Workload and patient treatment
Workload affects both treatment and referral decisions by “gatekeepers” to specialist services such as primary care physicians and emergency doctors, says a new study co-authored at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
Lightweight, portable CIJ opens up ink jet technology to more businesses
Linx Printing Technologies is breaking new ground in the coding and marking industry with the launch of a compact and totally portable entry-level CIJ (Continuous Ink Jet) printer which is capable of delivering quality two line codes
New Director for Domino’s laser business
Domino Printing Sciences, based at Bar Hill, has appointed Michael Wöhrmann as Director of its Laser business
Rapidox 1100 oxygen gas analyser sale
To celebrate the 15 years of excellence since the first Rapidox 1100 was sold, Cambridge Sensotec will be offering the remaining Rapidox 1100 with a 15% discount until the 31st October 2016. Ultimately, this will mark the end of the manufacture for the traditional Rapidox design, making way for the introduction of the newly redesigned Rapidox 1100 being launched later this year.
IT Governance to exhibit at IP EXPO Europe, London
IT Governance, the leader in cyber security expertise, is exhibiting at the IP EXPO Europe event at ExCeL London on 5-6 October 2016.
£417k study to improve research ethics in humanitarian crises
Academics from Anglia Ruskin University have been awarded £417,000 to analyse the ethical challenges involved in health research in humanitarian crises in Afghanistan, Nepal, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and Ethiopia.
UTI testing technology cuts screening time to four hours
Researchers using DNA sequencing to profile antibiotic resistance in infection have achieved a turnaround time from 'sample to answer' of less than four hours for urinary tract infections (UTIs).
October half term activities at IWM Duxford
This October half term, journey through the world of aviation at IWM Duxford and find out what life was like for those who served in conflicts during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Tis the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness...and tackling new training courses
With apologies to John Keats, Autumn at Cambridge Network is the time to energise yourself and boost your career by learning something new. Look into some forthcoming Learning Collaboration courses to see what grabs your interest.
The Family Business of the Year Awards
Birketts, the leading East of England law firm, has teamed up once again with Family Business United, to sponsor the East and East Anglia category of The Family Business Awards 2017.
Nearly a quarter of online clothing purchases returned by shoppers
Online shoppers return on average 2.2 items out of every 10 of their clothing purchases, according to EY’s ‘Zero clothing returns.
Mobas PR wins Gold for CSR campaign
Mobas PR has scooped a Gold award for its Corporate Social Responsibility Campaign with leading property developer Countryside.
Best Employers Eastern Region initiative features on Mustard TV
Ahead of the Best Employers Eastern Region conference and awards on Thursday 6 October, Lynn Walters from Pure and Margaret Burnside from eras ltd were invited on Mustard TV’s Business Extra show to explain more about the initiative.
Smartphone ownership peaks as one in three check their phones in the middle of the night
Survey of 4,000 reveals extent of UK mobile owners’ obsession with their devices.