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Barclays has launched a new Eagle Lab at MediaCityUK, in partnership with The Landing.

MediaCityUK buildings have officially been rated as the first Wired Certified Platinum buildings in the North of England, for their best in class broadband and telecoms infrastructure, making them the ideal location of choice for all businesses.

A team of staff from BBC North at MediaCityUK took time out from their day jobs to donate blood in support of their colleague Jonathan Ali, who receives regular blood transfusions to support his treatment for cancer.

MediaCityUK has welcomed a premium car valeting service with a difference to its multi-storey car park. Based on the second floor of The Garage, Urban Car Spa runs a valeting service with military precision, recruiting ex-forces personnel from the Manchester area to run its waterless car wash.

Plans have been revealed for the development of Lifestyle Outlet’s Lowry Outlet MediaCityUK Manchester site following the announcement that Peel Outletshas rebranded as Lifestyle Outlets.

This season, Quays Culture will host the UK’s biggest digital light festival, at Salford Quays and MediaCityUK.

Social TV company, never.no, based in The Landing, MediaCityUK, has signed an agreement with ITV, the UK’s largest commercial broadcaster. never.no is providing on-air social engagement software, ‘STORY’ to manage the live integration of social content into ITV’s ‘Daytime’ programming.

MediaCityUK-based dock10 has announced a deal to acquire 100% of the shares of 422, the long established Manchester based post production and vfx business. The deal excludes 422’s sister company based in Glasgow, serving the Scottish market, which will stay under its existing independent ownership and will re-brand in the coming months.

The Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF), the UK charity for people working behind the scenes in cinema, commercial television and film, has today announced a new partnership with MediaCityUK, Salford, appointing media professional and social worker Nicky Davidson to head up its new North West office. The new North-West offering, based at The Greenhouse, MediaCityUK, will operate in addition to the National office in London.

MediaCityUK’s newest creative co-working space, Tomorrow will become home to Manchester’s second branch of pay-per-minute sitting room, Ziferblat.