Cambridge Silicon Fen Weekly Newsletter

ISSUE 02 March 2012 Hello all, Last week's meetup was a very engaging discussion stimulated by two talks. One talk was kindly given by Jens Finkhuser of spriteCloud touching on international development and testing, developing business with creative agencies and the attraction of Cambridge for UK startups. The other talk was kindly given by Alban Rrustremi of Fonleap joining us directly from working on his venture and explained how they are enabling you to carry your computer activity between computing devices just with your mobile phone. We had some very lively and engaging discussions afterwards. My thanks again to the speakers. The next meetup is on Wednesday 21st March. I hope you can make it and join in with the discussions on the shared interest of web startups.

Kindest regards, Martin Willitts Cambridge Silicon Fen @techmeetupsCSF

EVENTS @TechMeetupsCSF Cambridge Silicon Fen March Meetup 21st March, 2012 Venue: 12 Regent Street, Cambridge [ RSVP HERE ] Feature Events: Cambridge STC Meetup March 06, 2012 Cambridge, UK Software Testing Club Cambridge Meetup

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March 06, 2012 Cambridge, UK Rapid Software Testing with James Bach March 07, 2012 Cambridge, UK Cambridge Wireless Mobile Broadband SIG: Mobile Broadband in Rural Areas March 08, 2012 Cambridge, UK Bango Nexus: Building world class web apps March 08, 2012 Cambridge, UK Create A Super Resilient Business March 09, 2012 Cambridge, UK

Other Events: Pre-Investor Day: our most promising investment-ready tech startups March 6, 2012 Venue: Innovation Warehouse [ RSVP HERE] eCommerce/eRetail Summit - London Silicon Roundabout March Meetup March 21, 2012 Venue: Innovation Warehouse [ RSVP HERE ]

IN THE NEWS Successfully social 01 March

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Yammer is a tool for making companies and organisations more productive, through the exchange of short, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you working on? Modelled in a similar way to Facebook, this enterprise social network is designed to cater to its members specific connectivity and information-sharing needs.

London beckons Kerala IT Companies 01 March Tvm: London & Partners, the official promotional organisation for London, in association with UK Trade & Investment and GTech, the Group of Technology Companies based out IT parks in Kerala, recently organised an interactive discussion on London Android and iOS App Olympics held in London in video 01 March Nikita has been coding for two days straight, and its starting to show. Its Sunday afternoon at the Mobile App Olympics, held just above the Smithfield chicken market in East London. Around 100 coders, designers and wannabe entrepreneurs are hunched over their laptops. City Lord Mayor visits HCT to discuss world class education, training and qualifications 29 February The Lord Mayor of the City of London, Alderman David Wootton visited Abu Dhabi Mens College at the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) and commended its academic and professional programmes. The story of Matt Glover the winner of the BeMyApp Mobile Olympics Hackathon in London 24 26th February 2012 29 February You can see more from Matt here and vote for his app before 7pm GMT on 29 th Feb 2012:http://appolympics.bemyapp.com Star Jar: A mobile application to award children 29 February Taking the paper-based child reward system to a digital level now enables parents, grandparents, uncles, aunties in fact all members of the family, to recognise and reward Star-worthy acts of behaviour in their children.

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Cuts could undermine creative industries contribution to the economy 29 February Tech companies, however enormous, remind me of cut flowers. They look and smell fantastic but wither and die regardless. When David Cameron recently visited Londons Silicon Roundabout

We have also created subject specific Newspapers on Mobile Apps, Gaming, Startups, Cloud Computing, & London Silicon Roundabout JOBS Software Development Lead/Senior Software Developer @Capco Innovation Labs (Full-Time)(London, England) Capco have created an Innovation Labs team and we are looking for experienced Software Development Lead to lead a team working on both internal and external projects, delivering innovative technology solutions to help build the future of finance. This team is results driven and you and your team will be given plenty of opportunity to develop ideas. This role will provide you with the opportunity to present in front of key stakeholders and allow you to thrive and continually improve your products through demonstrations and prototypes of your work.

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