Allia's Future Business Centre in East London supports 100 ventures and helps create jobs
Allia - the not-for-profit based in Cambridge & Peterborough - opened its East London Future Business Centre exactly one year ago, to support economic growth and local job creation within East London.
Council in top three of Council Tax collection table
South Cambridgeshire District Council’s finance bosses have thanked residents, businesses and revenues staff after the authority secured another top table position in the Council Tax collection league.
IT Governance sponsors GDPR education guide
IT Governance, the preferred supplier of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), is to sponsor a brand-new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) guide to be distributed to all UK secondary schools.
Cambridge AgTech company announces partnership to develop next stages of the AGRIinsight plat
Allia Serious Impact alumni AGRIinsight Ltd announces a major partnership with Advantech Ltd and the Agricultural Council of Tanzania to accelerate the development of its innovative platform.
Owlstone's Breath Biopsy platform scoops UK's most prestigious innovation award
The Royal Academy of Engineering reveals Owlstone Medical, creators of the ReCIVA Breath Sampler, as the winners of the 2018 MacRobert Award.
CW seeks innovative start-ups connecting the digital world
CW (Cambridge Wireless) has launched its annual Discovering Start-Ups competition. Now in its 9th year, this event connects promising technology entrepreneurs to the investor community in an event that nurtures the next generation of technology business talent and identifies solutions that will define the connected world of the future.
DZP presents 'Graphene and beyond - 2D materials for energy storage applications'
Strem Chemicals' colleague Zlatka Stoeva, Managing Director of DZP, presented ‘Graphene and beyond – 2D materials for energy storage applications’at HiPerNano 2018: Nanotechnology for Clean Growth, an event run by KTN earlier this week.
Carbon price floor
The European Union should adopt a minimum price on carbon dioxide from electricity generation to boost low-carbon investment, says a new paper from the Energy Policy Research Group at the University of Cambridge.
Analyse multiple gases within process, research and development applications
The Rapidox 3100 multigas analyser range from Cambridge Sensotec includes precision single, dual and triple gas analysis instruments providing powerful functionality and extensive features.
3 reasons leaders cannot afford to ignore the shift from connections to hyper connectivity
This article explores the contradiction that the last 15 years of digital growth has bestowed upon us. On the one hand we have huge advances in the medical, scientific and IT sectors, however, we also now have the increase in many more personal development challenges: how do we continue to engage employees and clients who are distracted by a multitude of options in how they choose to work, live…
Peter Cowley appointed new President of the European Business Angel Network (EBAN)
The European Business Angel Network (EBAN) - the pan-European community for early stage investors covering over 150 member organisations in more than 50 countries - has announced its new President. Peter Cowley, the Cambridge serial entrepreneur, invested investor and UK Angel of the Year 2014-15, has been appointed by the association to take the lead of the organisation for the next two years.
Bango supports launch of mobile operator billing integration for Amazon in the UK
Bango has expanded the use of its billing integration technology, enabling customers to sign-up for Amazon Prime Video in the UK through a leading mobile operator.
Flexera publishes Vulnerability Review 2018: Top Desktop Apps
A new report discloses big risks for desktop applications and need to extend patching to non-Microsoft applications.
Sponsorship of overseas employees: advice for organisations
Immigration law is ever changing and complying with legal duties is becoming increasingly challenging for Cambridge schools and businesses. Julie Moktadir of Stone King gives some advice for organisations that sponsor or are looking to sponsor overseas employees in the city.
'Your Hospice Lottery' raises close to £1 million for Arthur Rank Hospice Charity
If you take part in 'Your Hospice Lottery' for Arthur Rank Hospice Charity, you may soon have helped raise £1 million for the Hospice! Thanks to supporters playing the weekly lottery for the Hospice, a grand total of £941,713.50 has now been raised to help fund the care provided every day by Arthur Rank Hospice, to those living with a life-limiting illness in Cambridgeshire (as of Monday 25 June).
Cambridge Consultants helps women to take control of menopausal hot flushes
The menopause is seen by many to be merely a “women’s issue”. Cambridge Consultants has partnered with the National Innovation Centre for Ageing, to explore women’s experience of the menopause and to propose technology-based interventions.
AI startup Prowler appoints Eve Waldron Design
Eve Waldron Design has just been appointed to design the new HQ offices for artificial intelligence technology company Prowler. Due to recent expansion, Prowler is moving its headquarters to a bigger office in central Cambridge.
Cholera spread tracked at household level
For the first time, the transmission of cholera has been tracked at the household level across Dhaka, Bangladesh, a city with a ‘hyper-endemic’ level of the disease. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators found that nearly 80 per cent of the cholera transmission in Dhaka occurred between people who shared a household.
Help your technology maintain its competitive advantage
An IDTechEx Patent Analytics Report is a data-driven interpretation of the existing patents in a technology domain in the context of the commercial environment, providing competitive analysis and assessment of the entire value chain.
IQ Capital launches £125m fund to scale UK’s early stage deeptech companies
Leading deeptech VC, IQ Capital, has held the first close of its £125m third fund, IQ Capital Fund III, at £92 million. The fund will invest at Seed and Series A stages into UK deeptech companies with transformational deep-tech, AI or disruptive algorithms at their core and led by visionary founders.
World first in corrosion monitoring
Collaboration between Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP) and Ion Science creates a breakthrough in industrial sensing.
Derby scientists help make international artificial intelligence breakthrough
A team of data science professors has developed a revolutionary system that accelerates artificial intelligence algorithms, enabling supercomputers to master artificial neural networks (ANN) as complex as the human brain.
Computational chemistry news from Cresset June 2018
Flare V2 release provides a new playground for computational chemists and developers.
Cannes Lions: have the Lions lost their roar?
Find out what was different about this year's Cannes Lion awards...
CyanConnode launches Omnimesh smart metering solution
CyanConnode, the world leader in narrowband radio mesh networks, has today officially launched its cost-optimised standards-based Omnimesh smart metering application at Asia Utility Week in Bangkok.