CW issues call for SMEs to take part in IotUK Boost Programme
As part of the IoTUK national programme to drive the UK’s IoT capability, CW (Cambridge Wireless) is looking for UK SMEs working on innovative Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and applications in health and social care.
e-Go receives aerospace accolade from the Royal Aeronautical Society
Cambridge based e-Go aeroplanes was presented with a prestigious award by the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) at their annual awards ceremony in London last night.
KisanHub technology gets £60,000 boost
A Cambridge based technology business has been awarded almost £60,000 to enhance its enterprise software that helps large farming companies with their data management and decision making.
Discover the magic of Christmas on Trinity Street next Wednesday
A Christmas shopping event will be held next Wednesday evening (16th December) on Trinity Street, Cambridge, to help shoppers get into the festive spirit.
Mobas Group starts year on a high with the appointment of new Senior Account Manager
Creative marketing communications agency Mobas Group has expanded its talented client services team with the appointment of a new Senior Account Manager.
AstraZeneca to harness power of the Secretome and develop next-generation biologics
AstraZeneca and its global biologics research and development arm, MedImmune, today announced a three-year collaboration with the newly established Wallenberg Centre for Protein Research (WCPR). The collaboration aims to develop new technologies for biologics production and to identify new targets for disease research in the ground-breaking area of the Secretome - research into all proteins that…
Beyond Paris
As the climate change negotiations in Paris come to a close, the Scientific Alliance asks: what will be the real impact of the agreement reached?
Mills & Reeve advises Cambridge Innovation Capital on its £1.5 million investment
Mills & Reeve has advised Cambridge Innovation Capital on its £1.5 million investment in Jukedeck.
Christmas fun is promised at the Centre for Computing History
The Centre for Computing History at Coldhams Lane, Cambridge, will be open on selected days during the Christmas holidays. Come along and enjoy its usual blend of history, learning, and interactive fun!
Extended roll-out of Bango Boost after successful first trials
Bango, the mobile payments company, announces the second phase roll-out of its Bango Boost initiative to enable Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and app stores to further accelerate End User Spend.
Innovative sensors make wearables truly unique
Defining and exploiting value proposition is an essential part of wearable technology’s journey from early adopters into mass markets, and sensor platforms enable the key value proposition in most wearable devices today, says James Hayward, Technology Analyst at IDTechEx.
Feeding food waste to pigs could save vast swathes of threatened forest and savannah
New research suggests that feeding our food waste, or swill, to pigs (currently banned under EU law) could save 1.8 million hectares of global agricultural land – an area roughly half the size of Germany, including hundreds of thousands of acres of South America’s biodiverse forests and savannahs – and provide a use for the 100 million tonnes of food wasted in the EU each year.
Xaar appoints Chris Morgan as Non-Executive Director
Xaar plc, the world leader in industrial inkjet technology, is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Morgan as Non-Executive Director. Morgan will join the Board of Directors at Xaar from 4th January 2016.
Haverhill Research Park gets new signage
This week, Haverhill Research Park launched its new branding and unveiled new signage at the entrance to the park.
Pathology training centre launched to meet growing demand
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) has launched a new service to train current and future healthcare professionals in administering blood and other clinical tests to meet the growing demand in the community.
Closures on A14 for bridge repairs
Road users are advised that there will be overnight closures on westbound A14 in Cambridgeshire from next week so bridge joint replacement work can be carried out safely.
Meet FutureYou
Cambridge Nutraceuticals, the company behind the “tomato pill”, is re-launching the Ateronon brand under the new moniker – ‘FutureYou’. The new name embodies the company’s optimism for longer, healthier lives.
Cambridge set to be one of UK’s fastest expanding cities, says new EY forecast
Cambridge is set to be one of the fastest expanding cities in the UK over the next three years, with forecast Gross Value Added (GVA) per year of 2.5%, reveals a new EY forecast.
Taylor Vinters invests in revolutionary Cambridge legal tech start-up, Pekama
A Cambridge-based legal tech start-up, Pekama, has successfully closed a second over-subscribed funding round, with Cambridge headquartered-law firm Taylor Vinters coming on board as an investment partner.
Procrastinator- moi?
Do you often find yourself starting a task and then becoming easily distracted? Do you put off doing urgent tasks in favour of tasks that you enjoy or find easier? Do you often feel overwhelmed and not know where to start? If so, you are not alone. However, whether you are a procrastinator or not is a different matter...
Jukedeck MAKE computer-composed music prophecy come true
Jukedeck has chosen the 200th birthday of Ada Lovelace – who predicted that a computer programme would be able to write music – to launch its first product ‘Jukedeck MAKE’, seal a partnership with music tech incubator, Abbey Road Red and celebrate a further injection of £2m funding led by Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC).
Medicom signs significant development deal for advanced electronic drug delivery system
Medicom Innovation Partner has extended its partnership with a leading pharmaceutical company for the development of an electronic drug delivery system for use with next-generation drugs.
Immaterial wins first prize in postdoc business plan competition
Andrew Marsden, of Cambridge University’s Department of Chemistry, last week accepted first prize on behalf of his team for Immaterial in the first-ever postdoc business plan competition, run by Cambridge Enterprise (CE) and the Entrepreneurial Postdocs of Cambridge (EPOC).
Busiest ever November at Stansted Airport as records continue to tumble
Stansted Airport this year experienced the busiest November in its history as over 1.7 million passengers passed through the terminal, an increase of 6.9% over the same month last year. The previous record for November was set in 2006 when just over 1.65 million passengers used the airport.
ImmBio initiates first-in-human studies of its novel pneumococcal vaccine, PnuBioVax
ImmunoBiology Ltd (ImmBio), a biopharmaceutical company developing next generation anti-infective vaccines based on its proprietary ImmBioVax™ technology, today announces that it has initiated enrolment for a First-in-Human study of its novel vaccine (PnuBioVax™) against the bacterial pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae.