Cookery meets new technology
Two second year undergraduates have combined their passions for food and design to produce an innovative multi-touch summer recipe book for the iPad
Free Rein - horsing about
The Free Rein team are looking forward to a night of excitement, entertainment and drama, as they wine and dine with their customers from Challs International, at this year’s Anglian Business Awards.
Company seeks investment opportunities
Boundary Capital Partners is looking for early stage businesses requiring funding of between £200k and £1m. Any sectors considered, in particular technology businesses.
Investing mentors provided
Boundary Capital Partners provides investment and also mentoring services from one of 300 sector-specialist entrepreneurs.
Investment managers sought
Boundary Capital Partners is looking for investment managers to assist with fund management of a new EIS / SEIS fund being launched.
Equity website by netXtra wins ‘Best Trade Union Website’ at TUC Comms Awards
Equity, the UK trade union for professional performers and creative practitioners, scooped the award for the Best Trade Union Website at the recent TUC Communications Awards – another award- winning site designed and developed by membership online communications specialist netXtra.
New tech appointment at Taylor Vinters
Taylor Vinters’ Commercial & Technology team welcomes Peter Lee from international law firm Bird & Bird.
'Crofty' comes to Cambridge for Marshall charity cricket match
Former West Indies fast bowler, Colin 'Crofty' Croft, is coming to Cambridge! Known as one of the 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,' Crofty put fear into the hearts of the world’s finest batsmen in the 70s and 80s.
Cambridge-based Voyage Manager could have helped in the case of Kenya abductions
Cambridge-based Voyage Manager could have provided services to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) that would have aided them in the tracking and locating of their aid workers last week.
Novel splint design improves emergency care for fractured limbs
Innovative design and technology consultancy Cambridge Design Partnership today announces that it has worked with medical technology start-up Flexycast Ltd to develop the world’s first easy to use, disposable orthopaedic splint.
RSP Safety Services gains accreditation for SMAS - Safety Management Advisory Services
RSP Safety Services' Certificate of membership confirms it has been assessed and accredited. So any client wishing to procure its services can be confident that a reasonable and robust judgment has been made and that the standard for competency in the CDM 2007 appendix has been met.
What's on the US agenda today?
Federal spending, welfare, ethnicity, and surprising reasons why some Muslims hate America – key research on leading US issues published in American Political Science Review.
Cambridge conservation area wins two accolades in one week
The conservation area at Cambridge University Press has won an award from the Wildlife Trust and has been highly commended in the same week by Business in the Community (BITC).
Budvar secures right to 'BUDWEISER' name in UK
The Court of Appeal has this morning ruled against Anheuser-Busch’s (maker of US Budweiser beer) latest attempt to deprive Czech rival Budějovický Budvar of its right to the ‘Budweiser’ name in the UK.
Cambridge University Press waives author charges for new open access mathematics journals
Two new open access (OA) journals in mathematics, Forum of Mathematics, Pi and Forum of Mathematics, Sigma are being launched by Cambridge Journals.
Somersault-produced video features on TED website
As part of their recent work with the London Business School filming one of their TEDx events, Somersault Video Productions is pleased to that announce one of their videos has been featured on the TED website.
Business video newsletter for June 2012 from VirtualStudio.TV
VirtualStudio.TV had a really busy month in June with the team working on a number of different projects all over the UK.
IT Governance supports OmPrompt in achieving compliance to ISO27001 and ISO9001
IT Governance Ltd, an Ely-based company providing ISO27001 expertise and management systems consultancy, has announced that Oxfordshire based firm OmPrompt Ltd is yet another client to have taken advantage of the ISO27001 Feasibility and Gap Analysis service provided by the IT Governance consultants.
Rare opportunity to tour chained library in aid of Wintercomfort
Tomorrow (Wednesday July 4th), residents of Cambridgeshire will have a unique opportunity to see inside one of only a tiny handful of remaining chained libraries in the UK, at Wintercomfortʼs annual summer event.
‘Wine allowance’ introduced on new flights from Cambridge to France
Cambridge Airport’s latest airline partner, Danube Wings, will be introducing a unique wine allowance for passengers flying from between Dole-Jura and Cambridge when the route launches this summer.
Centre for Science and Policy celebrates growth
Yesterday saw Cambridge’s Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) celebrating powerful growth at its second annual event, with many members of Cambridge Network invited to meet with policy makers and influencers, including Lord Broers, former chairman of the Cambridge Network and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1996 until 2003.
How to raise your business profile
Do you want to enhance your company's profile in and around Cambridge? Then make sure your Cambridge Network directory entry is up to date! The Network’s listing of Cambridge organisations is growing every day and attracting increasing traffic to this site, so make sure yours says everything you want people to know about your business.
Keith Molloy joins PA Consulting Group’s shared services and outsourcing practice
PA Consulting Group is delighted to announce that Keith Molloy has joined its shared services and outsourcing practice. Keith has over 10 years’ experience in outsourcing and shared services. Serving both as a senior adviser to buy-side clients and as an outsourcing practitioner, Keith has deep expertise in procurement/supply chain and in finance and accounting. Keith also brings with him…
The prebound effect
Many homes with poor energy efficiency are actually consuming far less energy than predicted, new research has found. The study has implications for national energy-saving policies and the economic viability of thermal retrofit programmes.
New light shed on explosive solar activity
The first images of an upward surge of the Sun’s gases into quiescent coronal loops have been identified by an international team of scientists. The discovery is one more step towards understanding the origins of extreme space storms, which can destroy satellite communications and damage power grids on Earth.