New radio show gives advice for businesses
Businesses in the Eastern region will have a new source of practical advice and tips when a new radio programme starts this month.
Exclusive interview with a world renowned urological cancer surgeon
Zing Conferences had the pleasure of an interview with world renowned urological cancer surgeon, Professor David Neal, from the University of Cambridge, recently awarded a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List 2014 for services to surgery.
Invest in your skills as well as your business, entrepreneurs advised
Entrepreneurs need to invest in themselves as well as their business to increase the chances of success with their ventures.
Bailey Fisher Spring events feature guest speakers Warren East and William Reeve
Bailey Fisher Executive Search will be welcoming guest speakers including technologist and former ARM CEO Warren East, serial entrepreneur William Reeve (LOVEfilm, Secret Escapes) and Carolina Costa, MD of Orange Innovation UK to its Spring networking events.
The crowd backs music-themed gaming service Soshi
The equity crowdfunding platform SyndicateRoom has helped music-themed mobile gaming provider SoshiGames to raise over £285K in investment. SyndicateRoom’s unique blended model means that the crowd were able to invest alongside Soshi’s existing investors, highly-respected early-stage VC firm Midven.
Cambridge businesses learn to save a life
The team at KISS Communications, along with a number of Cambridge businesses, completed the British Heart Foundation’s Heartstart training at the KISS of Life event on the Cambridge Science Park.
Innovative SMILE procedure from ZEISS successfully performed on more than 80,000 eyes
Micro-invasive refractive surgery becomes an established laser vision procedure for the correction of myopia. Clinical trial in the USA expanded.
Suffolk Life chooses Birketts for legal services
Ipswich-based Suffolk Life, one of the UK’s leading providers of self-invested personal pensions (SIPPS), has appointed regional law firm, Birketts, to provide specialist legal services for investors and financial advisers.
Businesses react to Spittals improvement u-turn
The Highways Agency has withdrawn proposals for improvements to Spittals Interchange that would have seen the westbound slip road off the A14 junction 23 widened and lengthened to provide two lanes and ease congestion.
Breakfast networkers learn how to turn ideas into reality
You have a great product idea. But how do you go about making it? How do you know it's what the market needs? And how can you prevent others from copying it? Find out at Cambridge Network's next Breakfast Networking session on Thursday February 27th, which focuses on technology and market prototyping.
Cambridge charity granted $200K for African glaucoma trial
Standard Chartered’s Seeing is Believing programme - a collaboration between the international bank and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) - has awarded CBM UK, the overseas disability charity based near Cambridge, an innovation grant totalling almost $200,000 to establish the optimal and most cost-effective primary treatment for glaucoma in Africa.
Samsung launches search to find undiscovered talent
Samsung is joining forces with the UK’s hottest talent to give people with a passion for food, film, music and photography, the opportunity of a lifetime. ‘Launching People’ will see pop-up chef and Sunday Times cook Gizzi Erskine, award-winning actor and producer Idris Elba, singer-songwriter Paloma Faith and portrait and fashion photographer Rankin, search for undiscovered British and Irish…
Researchers lift the lid on silicon batteries
Resolving the mystery of what happens inside batteries when silicon comes into contact with lithium could accelerate the commercialisation of next-generation high capacity batteries, for use in mobile phones and other applications.
Don't worry if you missed 'The Apprentice' deadline
If you want to be an entrepreneur, don’t be disappointed you’ve now missed the deadline to enter this year’s The Apprentice, says David Brassington of CMC Partners.
What happens in Cambridge...
...how a culture, arts and media concentration on the Cambridge MBA is influencing creative industries management around the world.
Huppert welcomes grants for city gallery and museum
MP Julian Huppert has welcomed the news that Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum and Kettle’s Yard gallery are to have a share of a £4.6 million grant package.
Tame your computer - take the easy way in Excel
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 insert moved or copied rows or columns between existing cells - the easy way (Excel 2007-2013)...
Signagelive and Silver Curve first to develop Raspberry Pi digital signage devices
Signagelive, cloud-based digital signage technology specialists, and Silver Curve, developers of the Aperture graphics engine, have worked collaborated with Rob Gwynne, a Raspberry Pi designer and consultant and a leading UK manufacturer, to create the first commercial-grade Raspberry Pi-based digital signage devices.
US Ambassador visits the Institute for Manufacturing
Matthew Barzun, the US Ambassador to the UK, visited the University of Cambridge's Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), where he was impressed by cutting-edge technology.
Understanding the 'new migration age'
As a month-long focus on research on migration begins, Professor Madeleine Arnot and Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, Co-Convenors of the new University of Cambridge Migration Research Network, discuss the Network’s rationale and aims, and our preoccupation with the impact of migrant populations.
WaveFX film crew interviews 3D gurus at Microsoft Research
The work of artists, architects, scientists, engineers and gamers are not usually associated with one another, but they united through their work in advanced 3D computer graphic, parallel computing and visualisation techniques at the inaugural Mosaic3DX conference hosted at Microsoft Research Cambridge.
Zinwave acquired by McWane Inc.
Zinwave Ltd, a leading global supplier of in-building wireless coverage solutions, announced its sale to McWane Inc., a privately-held diversified manufacturing company based in the United States. New ownership enables Zinwave to accelerate growth of its unique wideband active distributed antenna system (DAS) technology globally.
Want to learn more about stress? The Salimetrics featured analyte this month is Cortisol
In 2014 Salimetrics introduces a new feature on its blog, the Analyte of the Month, presenting a new analyte from its salivary assay range each month. The blog entry should help you understand the biological functions of the molecule, but also portray potential applications you might want to consider in your research.
Copytrax exhibits '2D printing' technology at Cambridge Conference
The technology that is starting to displace traditional screen-printing techniques has been dependent on recent innovations in ink technology and print-head design
KISS sponsors YOPEY 2014
Passionate about supporting the region’s younger generation, creative marketing agency KISS is delighted to be sponsoring Cambridgeshire’s Young People of the Year (YOPEY) for the second consecutive year.