Stansted Airport Meet the Buyers event beats records: £200m worth of contracts up for grabs
London Stansted Airport’s 17th annual Meet the Buyers event welcomed nearly 300 businesses from across the East of England and London, all eager to showcase their products and services and potentially secure new business deals with some of the region’s biggest organisations.
Hewitsons rated in 2018 Chambers & Partners Guide
Law firm Hewitsons is delighted to announce top rankings in the 2018 UK Chambers and Partners legal directory.
Cambridge team takes top prize in international robotics competition
A Cambridge student team has won first prize in an international robotics competition, with a robotic arm the students developed and programmed themselves.
Stansted Airport plans community feedback events to update on future growth plans
London Stansted Airport is to host a number of community feedback events in the coming weeks to update local residents about its revised proposals for future growth over the next decade within current flight and environmental limits.
The complexities of innovation
Innovation isn’t as simple as choosing from a menu – it depends on a company’s organisational structure, says new paper co-authored by Professor Stylianos (Stelios) Kavadias of Cambridge Judge Business School.
Cambridge Epigenetix strengthens leadership team to support development of diagnostics
Cambridge Epigenetix (CEGX), a pioneer in the development and application of epigenetic technologies, announced that it has appointed diagnostic experts, Hayden Jeffreys as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Dr Joanne Mason as Vice President (VP) of Biomarker Discovery.
Why employers should implement health and dental plans for employees
These days many of us work long hours, often outside the core Monday to Friday, 9 to 5 period, facilitated by technology that allows us to work from any location. These work pressures can make us prone to illness leading to time off work, which is not good for business.
INTEGRA highlights benefits of low retention pipette tips
INTEGRA has released an application guide highlighting the importance of choosing the right disposable tips for the liquid you’re pipetting. The recently published Performance of Low Retention GripTips from INTEGRA demonstrates how these high quality consumables can improve pipetting performance for viscous and low surface tension liquids.
Point-of-care ultrasound invaluable for treatment of ICU patients
Point-of-care ultrasound is proving indispensable in the intensive care unit at Southampton General Hospital.
MP applauds Origami Energy success at Cleantech Venture Day Awards
The new Cleantech Venture Day, held recently in London, has been heralded as a great success by attendees, investors and pitching companies alike.
Cambridgeshire Digital Awards winners announced
Progressive businesses, charities and education providers have been recognised for their online work at the third Cambridgeshire Digital Awards.
BioBeat unveils 2017’s 50 Movers and Shakers
A new report, released today, unveils 50 female leaders in healthcare business in the UK, including 14 from Cambridge and the surrounding area.
Amazon welcomes first employees to new Development Centre site in Cambridge
Amazon today opened the doors to its new Development Centre site in the heart of Cambridge. Located at One Station Square adjacent to Cambridge Station, the new building is a 60,000 sq. ft. development that will when at full capacity be home to over 400 highly-skilled employees including machine learning scientists, knowledge engineers, data scientists, mathematical modellers, speech scientists…
Cambridge Festival of Ideas closes with record attendance
The tenth Cambridge Festival of Ideas has wrapped up after record attendances for the over 200 events dedicated to thought-provoking ideas and discussion.
Double success for Sookio in the Cambridgeshire Digital Awards 2017
Sookio is delighted to announce double success at the Cambridgeshire Digital Awards this year, sweeping awards in both the Best Blog and Best Use of Video for Business categories.
Birketts promotes 23 lawyers
Birketts, the leading law firm based in the East of England, has announced that 23 of its most talented lawyers have been promoted across its four offices.
89% of UK businesses would consider switching to wireless broadband
In a new survey, UK businesses say poor broadband has negatively impacted performance, but 56% have not switched provider. Eighty-nine per cent of companies state they would consider moving to wireless, highlighting the market opportunity for 5G fixed wireless.
Stephen Hawking endorses new £50 million centre
Gifts totalling more than £32 million, together with government funds of over £17 million, have enabled the launch of a highly innovative Centre in Cambridge that is pioneering new approaches to understand and treat neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, motor neurone disease and frontotemporal dementia.
Calling all bookkeepers - learn Xero and get new business with SMEs
Watermill Accounting is holding an essential one day training course for bookkeepers who would like to learn Xero - the popular accounting package for SMEs. The training workshop will be held on 6th December, 10am - 4pm at the Future Business Centre, Cambridge.
All about inheritance tax: Thatcher’s gift
Often written about and commented upon by the media is the subject of Inheritance Tax. Increasingly there is a feeling that the true implications of this tax are misunderstood, says NW Brown.
Terminating sales problems for Aventis
As Arnold Schwarzenegger said in Terminator, “If you don’t ask, you don’t get.“ As a cyborg from the future, he might not actually have been thinking about sales techniques, but the quote is surprisingly apt.
Getting your IP ready for the next funding round
2 good reasons to think about how to represent your IP
TwistDx offers isothermal alternative to PCR
TwistDx’s recently launched range of liquid format Recombinase Polymerase Amplification (RPA) kits are ideal for rapid testing applications and high throughput laboratory use. This isothermal DNA/RNA amplification technology represents a versatile solution for nucleic acid detection, offering the same specificity as PCR but much faster results – typically within three to 10 minutes.
CW strengthens board with a trio of industry experts
CW (Cambridge Wireless), the leading community for companies involved in the research, development and application of leading technologies has appointed three new members to its board.
UK offices lack features needed to boost productivity and wellbeing, claim introverts
UK office workers believe their workspaces aren’t catering to their needs; to boost productivity and wellbeing, staff members want quiet areas, private spaces and chill-out zones. However many offices don’t provide these features - introverts in particular would welcome such spaces.