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Green banks to end reign of greenbacks and GDP obsession
Leading economists from the United Nations and the University of Cambridge were meeting this week in a bid to end a global fixation with Gross... Read More
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Private businesses harness COVID pandemic to effect positive change
PwC UK has launched a new report – Private Business: ‘The way ahead’– which through a series of interviews captures the experience of life inside... Read More
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Congenica adds big hitter to help steer global scale-up and push into new therapy areas
Congenica, a digital health company enabling rapid and accurate analysis of complex genomic data to transform people’s lives, has appointed Dr Muthu... Read More
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Etihad Airways becomes first airline to join DARTeC project
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has joined the £65 million Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre (DARTeC... Read More
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Cambridge University innovation making water worldwide safe to drink
Blue Tap, a water purification social enterprise founded by Cambridge University PhD student Francesca O’Hanlon, has secured an unspecified Innovate... Read More
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Cambridge turns light bulb moments into lightning storm
A Cambridge University programme created to nurture academic brilliance has been fine-tuned to give businesses and research organisations their best... Read More
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AstraZeneca acquires Alexion in $39bn Boston spree party
Cambridge UK Big Biotech AstraZeneca is paying $39 billion for Boston US pharmaceutical business Alexion to boost its share of a burgeoning... Read More
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Trebor and Hillwood plot major Peterborough industrial scheme
Trebor Developments and Hillwood have submitted a detailed planning application for a two-unit industrial development, providing units of 231,000 sq... Read More
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New Cambridge office building on track in Station Road
Bidwells has advised Brookgate on securing funding for a new development at 20 Station Road, part of the CB1 Estate in Cambridge, from Aviva... Read More
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Online retailer relocates to Port One Logistics Park
Curzon de Vere, advised by Savills, has let warehouse space at Port One Logistics Park in Great Blakenham to FDS Corporation. The online retailer... Read More
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Bright future in the US as Sunlight raises $6m
Sunlight, the Cambridge-based developer of virtualisation technology for data-intensive applications, has closed a $6 million Series A funding round... Read More
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Medical and entertainment benefits from brain-computer research?
The adoption of Brain Computer Interfacing technology in Virtual Reality headsets and gaming content could become reality thanks to EU funding and... Read More
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Profit and revenue higher but Creightons digs in for no deal Brexit
Consumer goods manufacturer Creightons plc, based in Peterborough, has increased pre-tax profit and revenue in the half-year to September 30 but is... Read More
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Amino bounceback literally pays dividends and sets up acquisitions
Quoted Cambridge company Amino Technologies is reintroducing dividend payments after boosting revenues and profit for the year to November 30 – and... Read More
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Cambridge Quantum Computing completes $45m financing
Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) has completed a $45 million financing from investors including Honeywell Ventures, IBM Ventures, JSR Corporation,... Read More
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SDI Group significantly increases profit and revenue
Cambridge-based science and technology influencer SDI Group increased revenue by 23 per cent to £14.13 million in the six months to October 31. ... Read More
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Marshall Motor Holdings ups its profit forecast to £19m from £15m
Cambridge-based Marshall Motor Holdings plc, one of the UK's leading automotive retail groups, saw its share price increase significantly after... Read More
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Connells’ £112m cash bid values Countrywide at over £200m
Connells has dangled fresh and tasty bait before the board of fellow East of England property company Countrywide plc with an improved cash offer of... Read More
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Sounds sensational as Qualcomm and Audio Analytic trigger smartphone revolution
US powerhouse Qualcomm and Cambridge SoundTech pioneer Audio Analytic have forged a technology alliance that ensures 2021 will be the year... Read More
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Cambridge duo help create nextgen AI drug discovery platform
Two Cambridge companies are at the heart of a globally significant drug discovery initiative steered from the UK. Optibrium. which develops... Read More