My love of analytics
Sarah, Digital Apprentice at KISS, talks about her interest in Analytics and how they could become one of your website's most important success tools.
Cambridge Consultants presents a world first in radio design
A world first in radio design has been created by product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants, working in conjunction with Ocado. The new wireless control system is transforming the warehouse automation solution used by the online grocery retailer.
Wayra UK and SyndicateRoom join forces to connect UK startups to vital growth capital
Startup accelerator Wayra UK and equity crowdfunding platform SyndicateRoom today announce a collaboration that seeks to guide a generation of technology businesses through their funding journey.
Science Festival looks at psychology and neuroscience in the new tech society
Who are we in this new tech society and can smartphones really make us happier? How do we make decisions? What is the science behind romantic attraction? And what does it mean to be conscious? Cambridge Science Festival is set to reveal the latest research on our personality traits and behavioural characteristics in a series of events on psychology and neuroscience.
Cambridge Index drops 2.6%
The Cambridge index slid 2.6% or 430.1 points to settle at 16,143.8, as all of the top ten index heavyweights posted weekly losses.
Newmarket’s flagship B2B exhibition returns to Newmarket Racecourse next month
The Two Counties Business Exhibition will bring together over 300 business people to showcase their products and services, be inspired by a programme of guest speakers and create new business opportunities.
NW Brown announces appointment of a new Financial Planner
NW Brown & Company today announced the appointment of Paul Fox as a Financial Planner specialising in advising clients of its rapidly expanding Investment Portfolio Service.
KISS supports young heroes
KISS Communications is supporting the Cambridgeshire Young People of the Year (YOPEY) award for the fourth year in a row as Gold sponsor.
Safer medicines in Europe: Bluesphere welcomes serialisation rules
The EU publishes new rules on medicine safety today, requiring mandatory safety features (datamatrix codes) and tamper-evident closure of all packs of prescription medicines within three years. This will be challenging, but local company Blue Sphere Health is poised to help.
Aqdot announces £5 million Series A funding round
Chemical company Aqdot is pleased to announce completion of an oversubscribed Series A funding round of £5m. Imperial Innovations led the round alongside Parkwalk Advisors, Cambridge Enterprise - the commercialisation arm of the University of Cambridge - and Providence Investment Company.
IMI Europe announces conference and course programme for 2016
IMI Europe Ltd, the leading inkjet conference and course provider, announces its European event programme for 2016.
Richard Featherstone speaks at Human Factors Summit, San Francisco
Richard Featherstone of Medical Device Usability will be speaking at the Human Factors Engineering and Usability Studies Summit in San Francisco tomorrow (Wednesday 10 February 2016).
Onespacemedia creates new platform for national centre for synthetic biology commercialistion
SynbiCITE is the UK’s national centre for the commercialisation of synthetic biology. With the primary objective of accelerating, facilitating and promoting the commercial exploitation of synthetic biology research and technology, SynbiCITE is a powerful catalyst in a rapidly emerging industry - designed to deliver substantial benefits to the UK economy.
New design talent joins Onespacemedia team
Onespacemedia is thrilled to introduce the latest recruit to join its internship programme - Robert Korodi.
New initiative aims to close the Skills Gap
Step Up is a new digital platform which aims to close the skills gap in Cambridge. It launches this week (Thursday 11th February) at Form the Future’s Education & Skills conference.
Women of the World Cambridge festival line-up announced
Author Polly Vernon and barrister Charlotte Proudman will join talks and performances and a celebration of women’s achievements as part of Cambridge’s Women of the World (WOW) Festival next month.
UCL awards research identity project to The District
Creatives at Cambridge agency The District will be pouring over reams of academic research for the next two months as they develop a brand identity and website to communicate the purpose and findings of a £2.4million, four year global research programme led by University College London.
AMIHO Technology launches compact, high performance, LoRa and Wireless M-Bus module
Say goodbye to 'dark' meters and speed time to market with AMIHO's AM091 production-ready compact radio modules providing LoRa and Wireless Meter-Bus at 169MHz.
Research investigates positive prejudice towards gay men
Psychologists at Anglia Ruskin University are exploring the issues around “positive prejudice” towards gay men in the UK.
JTAG Technologies sponsors hardware developers' conference
JTAG Technologies take the lead at H/WExpo, a conference for hardware designers, hardware testing professionals and hardware manufacturers.
Validation of humidity probes in-house is now an affordable option
The new HygroCal100 humidity verifier from Michell Instruments provides a practical option for companies that are not able to invest in a full humidity calibration laboratory to verify their humidity probes in-house. The unit is cost-effective and is available either on its own or with a choice of options to meet a variety of needs.
Tame your computer - helpful highlighting
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 make text look like it was marked with a highlighter pen (Word and Outlook*)...
New Innovators: ‘Data management is behind the times’
ExMarie Curie fellow in Cambridge University- Eoin Murray, developed Rinocloud as the solution to a problem he experimented working on with the top Universities.
42 Technology expands its team and facilities following record growth in 2015
42 Technology has today announced a significant increase in the company’s capacity to deliver client projects following record business growth in 2015. The consultancy has increased its staff numbers by 40% over the past year, added more office space, and within the next few weeks will double the size of its development laboratories.
Microsoft acquires SwiftKey
Microsoft has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SwiftKey, whose highly rated, highly engaging software keyboard and SDK powers more than 300 million Android and iOS devices.