Mills & Reeve makes up three new partners
National law firm Mills & Reeve has announced the promotion of three associates in key target sectors.
Selling technology – a one day course
Technical Marketing experts Energi have announced the launch of a series of one day courses aimed at helping engineers and scientists to appreciate the critical role that sales and marketing play in converting knowledge and technology into revenue and profit. The first of these is to take place in Cambridge on July 3rd 2012.
CIR Strategy provides strategy to serial entrepreneur-founded HVM startup
CIR Strategy is providing validated learning, service design, competitor analysis and routes to value management consultancy to an energy efficiency company that has been spun out of the market leader in the segment after the founder exited his first company.
Teach First joins forces with Google to address teacher shortage
Charity Teach First and Google have announced plans to work together to train and support more than 100 ICT and science teachers to work in schools serving some of the country’s lowest income communities.The initiative is likely to involve use of the Cambridge designed low-cost computer, Raspberry Pi.
Mills & Reeve advises Bango on £3.25m fundraising
Leading national law firm Mills & Reeve has advised Bango plc on an institutional fundraising to raise approximately £3.25 million.
The changing face of British intelligence
Dame Stella Rimington, former Director-General of MI5, will deliver Newnham College’s Jane Harrison Memorial Lecture tomorrow (Friday, 25 May).
The power of thinking big
Population studies on a vast scale are providing the power to enable accurate risk assessment – and intervention – into cardiovascular disease.
Cambridge students win 'McKinsey Innovate' 2012
The Ethical Tomato Company - four postgraduate students from the Engineering for Sustainable Development Masters programme at the University of Cambridge - has been judged winner of the McKinsey Innovate 2012 competition.
Science fiction expert heads department
Farah Mendlesohn has joined Anglia Ruskin University from Middlesex University as Professor of Literary History and Head of Department for English, Communication, Film and Media.
Fine art for the office: create an attractive environment and enhance your company’s image
What impression does your company project to clients when they visit your offices? There is a growing trend of successful companies investing in fine art to display in their offices, from reception to the boardroom.
RealVNC puts smartphones at the centre of in-vehicle infotainment at Telematics Detroit
RealVNC will be featuring its latest smartphone-centric, in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) connectivity solution at Telematics Detroit from June 6th-7th. VNC® Automotive can automatically detect, access and control virtually any mobile device or desktop computer from a vehicle’s touch-screen or fixed input devices such as steering wheel switches and head unit buttons and menus.
XJTAG focuses on South African market with free seminars
World leading boundary scan supplier XJTAG and EDA Technology provider Mentor Graphics are holding a series of free technical seminars in South Africa next week, in partnership with South African distributor, ASIC Design Services.
Cambridge architects in renewal project to honour Cambridge’s war dead
Wednesday, 23rd May 2012, saw the long-awaited reopening of the war memorial in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church in the centre of Cambridge, which commemorates those members of the congregation who perished in the Great War of 1914-1918. Cambridge architects, Freeland Rees Roberts, were among the guests at the ceremony. As the architects commissioned by the City Council to oversee the…
RSP Safety Services training consultant has done it again!
Five MERIT Awards have been received for delegates, following three days' training on the CIEH Level 3 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace. As part of RSP Safety Services' commitment to supporting business, all delegates receive 12 months support.
AVEVA acquires Bocad
AVEVA strengthens its 3D design capability with the addition of best-in-class structural detailing software.
BlueGnome and IVI announce RCT to investigate benefits of 24 chromosome aneuploidy screening
Cambridge, UK; Valencia, Spain... IVI and BlueGnome announced today the start of a randomised clinical trial (RCT) to investigate the benefits of offering 24 chromosome pre-implantation genetic screening (PGS) to patients undergoing IVF treatment at IVI’s clinics throughout Spain.
New XAAR 1001 GS12 printhead to drive ceramics industry faster
Xaar, the leader in digital ceramic printing technology, announces the launch of a new model of its revolutionary Xaar 1001 inkjet printhead family.
Architecture meets art at Wysing Arts Centre
Wysing Arts Contemporary: Recollect is an exhibition of newly commissioned and existing work for sale that looks at the idea of architecture as an expanded personal archive and a depository for memories. Part of the national Love Architecture Festival in June, it includes talks and events looking at the space between art and architecture.
The art of survival
A collection of artefacts made by prisoners from the Channel Islands in World War II has gone on display in Jersey to mark the 70th anniversary of the Channel Island deportations, with the help of a Cambridge researcher.
Business execution lesson from The Titanic
Maintaining a vivid vision in business and a discipline of execution cannot be compromised, as it represents the compass that determines how well you navigate, and how successful you will be in business. A crystal clear vision is the compelling picture of the results you and everyone in your organisation are trying to create together, not only for your customers, but all your stakeholders.
What determines whether a herbal product is registered as food, a cosmetic or is medicinal?
Greer Deal, Director of Global Regulatory Services (GRS), a UK based consultancy to the life science industry, will highlight the complex regulations involved with herbal product registration when she speaks at the Vitafoods Europe Conference in Geneva tomorrow (Thursday, 24th May 2012).
Business of the Year winner, Austin’s Funeral Service
Austin’s Funeral Service, Hertfordshire’s leading, family-owned and operated, funeral director was voted Business of the Year at last night’s Inspiring Hertfordshire Awards 2012. Austin’s Funeral Service was awarded £7,500 of marketing support by creative marketing agency, KISS Communications, one of the headline sponsors of the event.
Cyclofluidic announces first fully automated lead discovery experiment
Cyclofluidic has announced the completion of the first fully automated “screen and test” lead discovery experiment. Scientists used the company’s proprietary microfluidic system to design, make and screen potential drug molecules active against thrombin, a target associated with stroke.
Cambridge events line-up means we're spoiled for choice
Cambridge Network members have the opportunity to attend a wide range of interesting events - concerts, lectures and conferences - in the city over the next month or so, including a meeting on Wednesday June 13th with Lord Andrew Mawson, one of the foremost social entrepreneurs in the UK, who will talk about business that benefits the community.
Ground-breaking new texts reveal how to teach children to think
Two new books from Cambridge University Press suggest that thinking, and teaching how to do it, have been the missing tools in the teacher’s kitbag for too long.