Cambridge Today Blog
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Wall Street crooks a finger. So what does Arm have up its sleeve?
It was autumn 1990 when a phone rang at Business Weekly and Acorn Computers co-founder Hermann Hauser was on the line. He told me interested... Read More
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That’s right - still no trade deal with the US
You can be as cynical as you like about the UK’s inability to clinch a new trade deal with the United States. We’re still the best of buddies with Mr... Read More
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Silicon Valley by the Cam? Only place Government can build 250,000 new homes is Cloud Cuckoo Land
Enough is enough. Time for the Government to walk away and put the blame for their retirement on suffering a nasty case of TB – total bullshit!... Read More
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Whither Cambridge? Or should that be ‘wither’ Cambridge?
CEOs and other thought leaders with Cambridge DeepTech and life science organisations have warned the Government that the UK will increasingly lose... Read More
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Dual float for Arm still on the table but what else might the future hold?
Arm chiefs in concert with Japanese parent company SoftBank have yet to decide whether the proposed float of the Cambridge tech company will be in... Read More
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Technology entrepreneurs split on future for Arm
Fears that US technology giant NVIDIA is set to pull the plug on its proposed $40 billion swoop for Cambridge superchip architect Arm have prompted... Read More
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Large-scale computing market set to grow to £38bn: Is Cambridge and the UK ready to cash in?
Having witnessed the exponential growth in High-Performance Computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud consumption, and the importance... Read More
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NVIDIA-Arm deal: Cambridge coup or death knell for UK tech?
US tech giant NVIDIA piled on the sugar and honey with jam on the side as it reeled off the positives of its $40 billion acquisition of Cambridge... Read More
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Science and tech companies must max their own talent to thrive in new trading climate
The UK would like to apologise if it has failed to wreck relationships with any of the world’s leading trade powers. Oversights can happen. Now... Read More
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Xaar’s 30th birthday: Now, where to stick the candles!
Management at Cambridge inkjet innovator Xaar plc say they have sent champagne to all the team to mark the company’s 30th anniversary. But the harsh... Read More
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From recession to pandemic and back to recession?
Launched in May 1990 in the teeth of a UK recession, Business Weekly now marks its 30th anniversary in the middle of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic... Read More
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Backwater to mainstream: science and tech legends transformed Cambridge
Acorn Computers was marooned up a murky creek struggling to locate a paddle; founders of a fledgling Arm were desperate to jump ship. The situation... Read More
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Cathedral splendour a fitting tribute to Sir Michael Marshall
Cambridge entrepreneur and philanthropist Sir Michael Marshall loved Ely Cathedral and worked tirelessly for its various restoration appeals. His... Read More
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Cambridge growth far stronger than figures suggest
Mark Twain was fond of quoting UK Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli that there were three kinds of lies – “lies, damned lies and statistics.”... Read More
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Time to put Marshall move into perspective
2019 is the 110th anniversary of the Marshall Group, a private, family-owned enterprise which for well over a century – and long before the advent of... Read More
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Figurative ark rests on high moral ground
In times when controversy rises to the proportions of a Biblical flood it is not uncommon to see authors’ figurative arks finding high moral ground... Read More
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Happy birthday Alexa, a brainchild born in Cambridge
Tomorrow marks the fourth birthday of Amazon’s Alexa – IP born in Cambridge via the fertile brain of True Knowledge and Evi Technologies founder... Read More
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Look left field in Cambridge to sight genuine tech unicorns
Recent research produced for the Government’s Digital Economy Council joyously proclaimed that Oxford and Cambridge combined had produced more fast-... Read More
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Remote working a must for clogged-up Cambridge
A chart showing all the accidents and gridlocked road arteries the length and breadth of the country this week resembled a relief map of the... Read More
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Swallow the Amazon bile and acknowledge the debt the UK owes
First the tax then its voice recognition software. Amazon has been something of an Aunt Sally for sections of the British national media in the last... Read More