Top tips to keep hold of your most talented employees
If you’ve worked hard to attract and recruit talented employees, you will need to put in even more work to keep them. While employees will choose to move on for many different reasons, some of which you can’t control, Pure Resourcing has compiled ten top tips on what can be done to help retain valuable members of staff.
D&A Creative develops exhibition stand for Senator Pens
For their stand at this years PPE exhibition, D&A Creative worked with the marketing team at Senator Pens to develop the ‘Winning Colours Zone'.
How to create exceptional managers and teams
The seminars and workshops that RiverRhee has been delivering during January and February have been typical of its work in enhancing team effectiveness.
WiSpire appoints KISS
Broadband provider WiSpire has appointed KISS to increase broadband penetration in Norfolk.
Ambassadors for Cambridge bring international conferences to the city
Academics from Cambridge University and representatives from Cambridge-based organisations were joined by the Mayor of Cambridge and the MP for Cambridge at a recent event to celebrate the successful promotion of Cambridge as a global centre of excellence for intellectual capital, leading-edge research and a prestigious location for international conferences.
Code safety and device security are key issues at Developers' Conference
This year's UK Device Developers' Conference will include workshops and presentations that explore code safety and device security.
Norwich to be home to the Quadram Institute, a new £81.6m Food & Health research centre
The Quadram Institute is the name of the new centre for food and health research to be located at the heart of the Norwich Research Park, one of Europe’s largest single-site concentrations of research in food, health and environmental sciences. Building of a new £81.6m facility to house the Quadram Institute begins this month, with an anticipated opening in 2018.
Cintra Translation buys First Edition as spur to growth
Two Cambridge language services agencies, Cintra Translation and First Edition Translations, are joining forces, fuelling their own growth by supporting their clients’ success here and in overseas markets.
CCS unveils Metnet self-organising backhaul with integrated small cell
CCS has adapted its Metnet self-organising backhaul solution to host a small cell within a single, compact design. Designed to speed up deployment, the integrated unit will help mobile operators with the process of site acquisition. It will be shown for the first time at the CCS stand (7B67) at MWC 2016.
Triple success for children’s book illustrators
Jane McGuinness has been named as the winner of the 2016 Sebastian Walker Award for Illustration at the same time as last year’s winner, David Barrow, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2016.
Researchers identify ‘neurostatin’ that may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease
An approved anti-cancer drug successfully targets the first step in the toxic chain reaction that leads to Alzheimer’s disease, suggesting that treatments may be found to lower the risk of developing the neurodegenerative condition.
Tame your computer - make an exception
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members, software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she describes how to stop AutoCorrect from capitalising text following specific abbreviations (Microsoft Office*)...
Birketts advises market-leading tech company on sale
Birketts, the top 100 law firm, has advised the shareholders of cr360, a market leader in environment, health and safety management and sustainability software, on its sale to the UL Group, a US-based global independent safety science company. The financial value of the deal was undisclosed.
Anthias Consulting and charity RORO send Gas Chromatograph to University in Mongolia
Anthias Consulting is working with charity RORO (Recycling Organisation for Research Opportunities) to connect redundant analytical instrumentation with academic institutions around the world that do not have the necessary finance to purchase new instrumentation.
Xaar expands product range for UV applications
Xaar, the world leader in industrial inkjet technology, is delighted to announce the launch of the Xaar 1002 GS40 for UV applications.
Could the food we eat affect our genes? Study in yeast suggests this may be the case
Almost all of our genes may be influenced by the food we eat, according to new research published in the journal Nature Microbiology.
Flying start to the year at Stansted: busiest January ever and arrival of British Airways
London Stansted began 2016 with another high flying month as the airport recorded its busiest ever January.
WaveFX sees dramatic rise in web-casting events
In 2015 WaveFX saw a dramatic rise in webcasting and live event streaming.
Jesus College announces launch date for new court and facilities
A central Cambridge College has announced a winter 2016 launch for its new state-of-the-art lecture hall and conference facilities, intended for the College community and external clients.
Innovation Martlesham collaborates with Cambridge Network
Innovation Martlesham (IM) was delighted to welcome Jonathan Brech, Development Director, Cambridge Network, to Adastral Park to explore closer ways of working between the two organisations.
One million dollar grant secured for the study of alternative finance
CME Group Foundation grants $1 million to support the study of alternative finance by Cambridge Judge Business School. The University’s Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance will study crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending.
Genome editing: a scientific revolution
A distinguished panel of experts from four leading bioscience research institutes come together during this year’s Cambridge Science Festival next month to discuss and respond to public questions about the current and future applications of genome editing – a process by which sections of DNA are removed or replaced.
Gravitational waves detected 100 years after Einstein’s prediction
New window on the universe is opened with the observation of gravitational waves – ripples in spacetime – caused by the collision of two black holes.
AstraZeneca and MedImmune enter consortium to find new treatments for chronic kidney disease
AstraZeneca and its global biologics research and development arm, MedImmune, announced that they have entered into a collaboration with the University of Michigan and Eli Lilly to identify new therapeutic targets for the treatment of chronic kidney diseases (CKD).
New real estate lawyer joins Penningtons Manches in Cambridge
Lawyer Emma Spencer has joined the real estate team in the Cambridge office of Penningtons Manches LLP from a Home Counties law firm. Emma’s appointment follows that of real estate partner, Sarah Coates, who joined in September 2015 to establish the firm’s Cambridge commercial and residential property offering.