Ensure your business is cyber security savvy
Breaches of data security, as a result of a cyber-attack, are frequently reported in the news and evidence suggests they are becoming more commonplace, writes Maria Peyman, senior associate at Birketts...
View ArticleOwlstone Medical wins UK’s top engineering prize
Owlstone Medical has won the 2018 MacRobert Award – the UK’s leading engineering innovation accolade – for its disease breathalyser.It is the second successive year that Cambridge has scooped the Royal...
View ArticleWhat next for the retail and leisure market?
With the exception of churches, pubs are perhaps the oldest social institution in built form; on a par with the café culture of Paris or the souks of Marrakesh. Yet legislation such as the 2007 smoking...
View ArticleBrand spanking old! There’s no such thing as ‘new’ in advertising
Man has split the atom, set foot on the moon and made scientific advances in practically every field of human endeavour from astronomy to zoology, but in advertising and marketing he is still,...
View ArticleHuawei planning to scale UK operations
Chinese ICT giant Huawei is looking to scale its UK operations – and Cambridge is understood to be high on the company’s agenda.Huawei has significantly grown its operations at Cambridge Science Park...
View ArticleNo Stranger to Innovation: How the UK is revolutionising the fight against...
The UK has an illustrious track record of introducing revolutionary innovations, writes Dave Excell, founder and CTO of Cambridge technology business, Featurespace. Within the past 55 years, we’ve...
View ArticleCambridge Innovation Capital raising extra funds from UK and global investors
Patient capital investor Cambridge Innovation Capital is following a highly successful 12 months with a fresh fundraising trawl from UK and international sources.Having raised £125 million to date, CIC...
View ArticleIntelligent toilet to flush out real healthcare issues
Cambridge University nanotech researchers are collaborating with a US insurer and other corporate players to explore the commercial potential of an intelligent loo which captures massive levels of key...
View ArticleCRFS opening New York manufacturing hub and harnessing AI
Cambridge radio frequency technology specialist CRFS is expanding its global manufacturing and system integration capability by securing a manufacturing facility in New York – the company’s second US...
View ArticleTech titans moving to flagship Cambridge HQ building
Microcomputer icon Raspberry Pi and thrusting young games company Automaton have signed up take space at the flagship Maurice Wilkes Building at St John’s Innovation Park, Cambridge.They join cyber...
View ArticleXaar’s 3D printing JV with US competitor boosts share price
Cambridge ink jet innovator Xaar plc saw its UK share price leap almost seven per cent (16.4p) higher to 256.90p after unveiling a new 3D printing company formed jointly with American competitor...
View ArticleTristel goes for the burn in US after record performance
Cambridgeshire bug buster Tristel is scaling its commercial push in the United States on multiple fronts.The Snailwell, Newmarket business chose a UK trading update confirming record turnover and...
View ArticleBigger challenges mean working together more
Corporate innovation teams tend to have one of two backgrounds, writes Isabela Chick, head of business innovation at Telefonica. The first is well-established R & D teams that have been rebranded...
View ArticleJapanese funder doubles up in Cambridge by investing in Undo’s $14m round
Japanese funder Global Brain Corporation, which invested in GeoSpock’s recent Series A round, has intensified its push into the Cambridge technology cluster by backing a $14 million Series B financing...
View ArticleArm and CIC invest in $10m round for Silicon Valley AI star locating in...
Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) has led a $10 million Series B funding in SWIM.AI, a San Jose-based edge computing company that is opening a research centre in Cambridge UK to take advantage of...
View ArticleEast meets East: Why China should be a top destination for region’s exporters
The UK’s trading relationship with China has gone from strength-to-strength in recent years, writes Alan Pain, head of exports for the East of England at the Department for International Trade. Exports...
View ArticleCambridge DNS sleuths find crucial cancer clue
DNA detectives at the Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge may have found a way of predicting whether breast cancer patients would respond to anti-=cancer drugs...
View ArticleCambridge hailed as VC capital of Europe
Venture Capital investment into Cambridge and the East of England region gained strength in the second quarter of 2018 as more than £291 million was invested, according to KPMG research.A total of 22...
View ArticleRealVNC MBO in automotive just the start
A new power player in the market of in-car infotainment and telematics applications has hit the road in Cambridge.RealVNC has agreed a management buy-out that allows its VNC Automotive division to...
View ArticleCambridge takes global AI lead as Google DeepMind backs Machine Learning chair
Cambridge University is launching a DeepMind Chair of Machine Learning, thanks to a benefaction from the world-leading British AI company – Google’s DeepMind – whose IP was born within the globally...
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