Take the route to success on Roadshow bus
Students across the East of England can benefit from expert advice as Anglia Ruskin University’s Roadshow bus aims to help young people make the right choices ahead of progressing into Higher Education.
Cambridge B2B Exhibition opens for exhibitor bookings
Exhibitor bookings are now being taken for the Cambridge B2B Exhibition, providing the city’s businesses with a unique opportunity to network and raise their profile on a grand scale.
Cambridge Filmworks travels north for the Sheffield Doc Fest
Award-winning local video production company Cambridge Filmworks has been invited to the prestigious MeetMarket at the Sheffield documentary film festival. Following on from the recent success of the Channel 4 film Thabo's Choice, Filmworks is once again collaborating with director Kip Loades to produce a brand new feature-length documentary.
How well do you manage your time?
If you think there's room for improvement in how you manage your time, consider signing up for the forthcoming Time Management course being run by Cambridge Network's Learning Collaboration on Tuesday July 1st.
Sound technology pioneer Audio Analytic use Alconbury Enterprise Campus as a sounding board
Audio Analytic is using Alconbury Enterprise Campus to help develop groundbreaking software after securing £900k angel funding and a further £350k from the UK innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board.
Cambridge’s thriving entrepreneurial hub praised in new report
A new report - Start me up: Creating Britain’s entrepreneurial ecosystem - highlights the dominance of London and Cambridge in leading the UK’s entrepreneurial ‘ecosystem’. Authored by Anna Lawlor, of Cambridge start-up Social i Media, the Barclays/Economist Intelligence Unit report investigates how entrepreneurs in the UK are supported and the barriers that hinder them, as well as wider trends…
Landis+Gyr to acquire leading utility analytics company GRIDiant Corporation
Landis+Gyr, a global leader in energy management solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire GRIDiant Corporation, a utility analytics company focused on the electric distribution grid. This transaction will expand Landis+Gyr’s software analytics portfolio, further enhance end to end solution capability and underscores the company’s commitment to becoming a…
TTP and Mayflower bring Internet of Things to streetlights
TTP and Mayflower have completed development of the latest wireless smart lighting control system. An example of the Internet of Things (IoT) in action, this latest design offers over 50% reduction in power consumption compared to existing smart lighting systems with enhanced reliability, improved radio range and class-leading metering accuracy.
Winner of Dolomite's Productizing Science® competition 2013 announced
Dolomite has announced the winner of its 2013 Productizing Science® competition as Molbot Pte. Ltd. The company submitted the concept of a low-cost bench-top molecular biology “Minilab” for automating molecular biology applications.
The making of a smart tunnel
Ground-breaking new sensing technologies in the world’s first ‘smart tunnel’ are providing engineers with an inexpensive and efficient method of monitoring, maintaining and protecting the UK’s infrastructure, now and well into the future.
Steel’s inner strength
A long-term collaboration between the University and industry has resulted in a super-strong form of steel, which is now being manufactured in the UK for use as stronger and cheaper armour for front-line military vehicles.
‘Tomato pill’ improves function of blood vessels
A daily supplement of an extract found in tomatoes may improve the function of blood vessels in patients with cardiovascular disease, according to new research from the University of Cambridge.
Students and staff make warm gesture
About 850 sports hoodies will be donated to people in Europe and Africa facing hardship, thanks to links built up by students and staff at Anglia Ruskin University.
New diabetes outreach team supports staff at Addenbrooke’s
A new diabetes outreach team is supporting staff on wards to care for patients who have diabetes who have been admitted to the hospital.
Cambridge Index marginally falls
The Cambridge Index dipped slightly by 3.64 points to 16,571.3 as gains in Johnson Matthey and DS Smith were overshadowed by losses in ARM Holdings.
Sound technology pioneer Audio Analytic uses Alconbury Enterprise Campus as a sounding board
Audio Analytic is using Alconbury Enterprise Campus to help develop groundbreaking software after securing £900k angel funding and a further £350k from the UK innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board.
SonoSite’s NanoMaxx® helps enhance palliative care
Woking and Sam Beare Hospices in Surrey have recently invested in a SonoSite NanoMaxx® point-of-care ultrasound system, enhancing palliative care services for its patients.
inStem licenses Cresset’s computational tools
Cresset, innovative provider of computational chemistry software and services, is pleased to announce that the Centre for Chemical Biology and Therapeutics (CCBT) at The Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), a state-of-the-art research institute in Bangalore, India, has taken a three year license for use of Cresset’s Forge and Spark software tools for lead…
Stansted Airport traffic results for May 2014
Stansted Airport saw nearly 1.82 million passengers pass through the terminal in May 2014, up 7.6% on the same month last year.
Riverbed SteelStore helps Metricon back up data and reduce storage volume by 80%
Riverbed SteelStore enables low-cost data storage in the cloud, improving security, availability, and reliability of data while reducing backup and recovery times
Your travel questions answered at special event
Get set to 'Travel for Business and Pleasure' at an event at Cambridge International Airport on Wednesday 18th June 2014.
Still time to be the East of England’s Best Employer
Do you have an inkling that your employees are happy to work for you? Then why not make it official by asking them to take part in a 15-minute, online survey that could win your organisation a ‘Best Employer’ award?
Birketts names Head of Automotive Industry Group
Birketts, the full service, top 100 UK law firm, based in the East of England, has announced that Mark Henry is to lead the automotive industry group.
Try to have empathy when presenting
When making a presentation, you really need to understand your audience, says communication coach Jon Torrens.
Two of Essex’s finest lend their support to Birketts Race4Business
Cricket legend Graham Gooch and BBC Essex radio presenter Dave Monk will be starting the Birketts Race4Business at 6.30pm on Thursday, June 26.