STOP PRESS! Last-minute event updates, 'gossip' & late breaking news...

Last-minute mini-listings including some outside the Surrey borders - take your passport! Please click the links for more...

• Woking Chamber Networking at the Ambassadors - date change - April meeting now 19th April not 12th as advertised - Friday 19th April 2013 12 noon - 2.30 pm

  Tickets: £12 (inc VAT) - non-members: £18 (inc VAT)  If you would like to attend, please CLICK HERE to book your place.

The stories behind the events plus hot gossip and unconfirmed rumours  (views expressed are not necessarily those of the NiS management)!

• LinkedIn acquires mobile news app Pulse for $90m - apparently an unlikely match, but LinkedIn SVP of Products and User Experience Deep Nishar says they want to make LinkedIn “the definitive professional publishing platform — where all professionals come to consume content and where publishers come to share their content.” Good luck with that one...

• Rumours had reached the NiS Bunker that North Surrey and Middx networking stalwart David Endersby was giving up his BestofStaines franchise, confirmed in an email from him today. Apparently it wasn't because he couldn't fit Staines upon Thames onto his bizcards :0) 'Best of' (geddit?) luck in your new TW18 Media business David!

• Ecademy - no more! The world's first business social networking site, Ecademy, boasting 500,000+ Members, is to relaunch under a new name in early 2013. It will now be known as 'SunZu - the art of business' with a totally redesigned website platform and business model. 

• London ExCeL - The Business Show, 6 & 7 June Registration is now open for free entry to the UK's largest business show featuring 250 Seminars, 15 interactive workshops, speed networking sessions and resources for anyone wanting to start or grow a business... Register here for free.