Cambridge Honorary Degrees 2015
The University of Cambridge Council has submitted to the Regent House, the University's Governing Body, the names of eight renowned individuals, seeking authority for their admission to Honorary Doctorates.
La Playa appoints Chartered Wealth Manager Henry Metcalf to challenge some investment myths
Boutique international insurance broker La Playa has appointed chartered wealth manager Henry Metcalf to its financial services arm - encouraging clients to see the bigger picture, and think twice before choosing seemingly obvious investment strategies...
Love and marriage (or love and civil partnership)
Something for Valentine's day? Jackie Jessiman of Cambridge-based law firm Woodfines reflects upon the changes in law enabling couples to convert civil partnerships to same sex marriages.
DHL occupies 'tea shed' in Lewisham
DHL Express, the leading global logistics company has secured a pre-let at Howard Group’s 57,000 sq.ft state of the art “Tea Shed” development on the Elizabeth Industrial Estate in the London Borough of Lewisham.
Riverbed wins Frost & Sullivan '15 CIO Impact Award in Unified Communications & Collaboration
Riverbed honored for rolling out a cloud-based collaboration platform
Amadeus invests in emerging markets power systems supplier
Amadeus Capital Partners has made the second investment from its global Digital Prosperity Fund, leading the equity component of a $21m A round financing in Cambridge Clean Energy Ltd., a provider of renewable energy-management-solution as-a-service (EMSaaSTM) to emerging market mobile network operators and tower companies.
Synoptics' restructuring for growth in global science markets viewed positively
Synoptics, a world leader in the development and manufacture of innovative digital imaging systems for life science applications, is pleased to announce the group’s restructuring and change in its commercial strategy has been positively received, helping the firm’s parent company, Scientific Digital Imaging (SDI) to secure over £500,000 in new investment.
Stansted Airport soars past 20 million passenger milestone as 2015 gets off to a flyer
Stansted Airport's January traffic increases by 28%, the highest monthly rate since 2004.
Accenture’s Aiden Quilligan takes to the floor for CW Prestigious Lecture
Aidan Quilligan, Global Managing Director at Accenture Industrial Software Solutions (AISS), gave the Fifth Cambridge Wireless Prestigious Lecture yesterday evening (Weds), presenting his views on ‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution - when Digital Technology meets the Shop Floor’.
KISS rated highly for creativity and being on budget according to survey by RAR
The Recommended Agency Register (RAR) has rated KISS highly for creativity, client service and being on budget – hitting 91% for each of these key areas. The confidential survey was conducted amongst the agency’s clients, providing a range of scores and feedback on the team at KISS.
East Anglia stars in food and farming innovation
Star researchers in Norfolk and across East Anglia are bringing real innovation to the UK food and farming industry, which is at the heart of the long-term economic plan, Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss said today.
Food Forensics achieves UKAS accreditation focused on combatting food fraud
Food Forensics is the first laboratory in the UK to be awarded the UKAS accreditation, which is an endorsement of the proficiency of the company and provides added reassurance to customers of the accuracy and reliability of results.
Agar Scientific installs new scanning electron microscope, setting a new standard for quality
Cutting-edge TESCAN VEGA3 SEM provides in-house quality control testing of Agar calibration standards and microscopy consumables.
‘Responsible’ investing: Is there a price to having principles?
The best-performing stocks since 1900 have been tobacco in the United States and alcohol in the United Kingdom, according to a review co-authored by Elroy Dimson, chairman of the Newton Centre for Endowment Asset Management at Cambridge Judge Business School.
Julian's charity appeal raises more than £5,000 for Wintercomfort
Cambridge homeless charity Wintercomfort has benefited from more than £5,000 following the success of MP Julian Huppert’s Christmas appeal.
Chesterford Research Park welcomes Quantel to Science Village
Quantel, leading developer of innovative, high performance media content creation and delivery systems joins the swiftly expanding Science Village community on Chesterford Research Park.
How to get a job in B2B Marketing
Brand Recruitment’s Head of B2B Marketing Recruitment, Dominic Phipps, recently appeared on the Cambridge Marketing College radio show The Cambridge Marketing Review to talk all things B2B marketing with the show’s host Kiran Kapur.
UKTI event helps firms build success in the US as new US/EU trade report published
UKTI is helping companies in the East of England make it big in the US thanks to a new conference aiming to give them all the tools and knowledge needed to set up in the region’s second highest export destination.
Why assessing the applications of IoT is now more important than ever
According to Chris Turkstra, Senior Director of Samsung, the Internet of Things (IoT) is currently at the peak of its hype cycle. IDTechEx concurs.
If you go down to the woods today...
Recent advances in medical imaging are being applied to airborne remote sensing of vegetation, enabling conservation scientists to see the wood and the trees.
Two new Board members join Anglia Ruskin
Experienced scientist Dr John Keddie and inspirational former teacher Dr David Crowe have been appointed to the Board of Governors of Anglia Ruskin University.
Bidwells' Head of Planning to join the Main Board
Mike Derbyshire, Head of Planning at Bidwells, has been invited to sit on the Main Board, just a year after joining the property consultancy Firm.
Mills & Reeve advises on £35 million sale of Constructionline
Mills & Reeve has advised BIS (The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills) on the sale of Constructionline to Capita.
Small cell backhaul innovator CCS strengthens management team with two key appointments
CCS, creator of the world’s first self-organising small cell microwave backhaul system for mobile networks, today announces the strengthening of its senior management team with the appointment of Martin Stephenson as Chief Financial Officer, and Paul Williams as VP Operations.
LEP Prize Challenge winners announced
The Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough LEP has invested a further £150,000 into three Voluntary and Social Enterprises to help get local people back into paid work.