Chancellor Philip Hammond announced new funding to help the UK compete in science and innovation in his spring Budget, including: £300m for research talent, including 1,000 PhD places for STEM subjects £270m for robots, driverless cars and biotech £16m for a 5G mobile technology hub £200m for fibre broadband
Fast-growing Bath-based cloud services firm Cloud Direct has been shortlisted for the title of Best Cloud Service Provider at the industry’s top awards. The firm, which recently completed its fifth deal in less than two years, is shortlisted alongside multi-billion dollar giant Ingram Micro, Interoute, Mambu and UKCloud in the UK Cloud Awards 2017. The...
Bath PR consultant Neil Whitehead and learning and development professional Jane Davidson have drawn on their decades of experience to launch a simple, easy-to-use way for managers to communicate with a mobile workforce. Called VOZ, it is downloaded to workers’ smartphones so they can receive targeted information anytime, anywhere. Unlike blanket emails, which can...
Cloud Direct, the acquisitive Bath-based cloud services firm, is on the takeover trail again after chalking up its fifth deal in less than two years. Cloud Direct, a gold Microsoft CSP partner, said the addition of Connect Support Services’s skills and capacity bolster its key Microsoft product areas: Azure and Office 365. The acquisition comes hot on the...
Directors from Bath and across the West of England are being invited to enter one of the region’s top annual awards schemes that recognises excellence and enterprise in the boardroom. The prestigious Institute of Directors’ South West Director of the Year Awards 2017 will showcase outstanding leaders and entrepreneurs as well as focusing UK-wide attention on...
Specialist software group SCISYS has landed a multi-million pound contract to support a pioneering European mission to search for life on Mars. The Chippenham-based group, which has its roots in the European Space Agency, has signed the €3.7m (£3.17m) deal with Italian group Thales Alenia Space to help design, code and verify software for...
The West of England’s world-leading aerospace and tech sectors have helped strengthen business ties between the area and the Spanish city of Malaga. A delegation from the aerospace systems cluster of the Technology Park of Andalucía has been on a two-day visit to the area this week to explore business collaboration opportunities. The visit,...
Professional services firm PwC has launched its annual West of England Business of the Year Awards – widely regarded as the region’s most prestigious. Now in their 29th year, the eagerly-contested awards attract the cream of the region’s firms with a winners’ roll-call reading like a who’s who of the West’s most-respected companies. The...
Gradwell, the Bath-based communication technology firm, has appointed Simon Mewett as CEO, replacing Nick Thompson, who has resigned after three years in the role. Simon, pictured, has 26 years’ experience in the tech sector. He previously held leadership positions at communications firm Easy Group and, most recently, C4L, the leading Poole-based colocation, connectivity, cloud...
Free stands are being offered to employers at Bath College’s Futures Apprenticeships and Jobs Fair. Hundreds of young people will be looking for jobs and opportunities at the event in March – making it an ideal opportunity for West employers to promote apprenticeships and vacancies to students and to speak to potential new employees....
