Cambridge Today Blog
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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
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Trump and right wing Tories taking a liberty
‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free; the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless,... Read More
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Heart and Seoul as IONTAS earns Korea antibody collaboration
IONTAS, a Cambridge-based specialist in the discovery and optimisation of fully human antibodies, has signed a collaboration agreement with Korean-... Read More
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Shrewd move as Arm chips away at Chinese market
SoftBank’s decision to sell a 51 per cent majority stake in Arm China rings no alarm bells for Cambridge where the superchip architect is growing at... Read More
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Oracle creating 10 new Cambridge millionaires by paying £325m for Grapeshot
US giant Oracle is said to be paying £325 million for Cambridge company Grapeshot – creating 10 new millionaires in the process. The companies... Read More
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No pain no gain: Time for Cambridge to go for the burn
The aim of the commission behind the CPIER report was to garner baseline economic findings and views to assess the most pressing challenges facing... Read More
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Searching for survivors in the realm of the robots
I recall a cartoon by Birkett which showed Daleks standing at the foot of a very steep flight of stairs and the leader pronouncing: “Well, this... Read More
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The 4Rs: Reading, Riting, Rithmetic – and Rifle Shooting!
Languages tutor Annie Oakley appeared even more curvaceous than normal as she dragged herself wearily into class. Uttering a few expletives in... Read More
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Cambridge loses two great minds but inherits rich legacy
Cambridge has lost two great minds in a matter of days with the deaths of Nobel Prizewinner and genomics doyen Sir John Sulston and celebrated... Read More
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Any Broadcom-Qualcomm deal could rouse Arm’s arch rival Intel
Experienced technology observers in Cambridge believe that if Broadcom succeeds in its £139 billion bid for Qualcomm a third company in the UK... Read More
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Cambridge’s billion dollar babies
The hot money is on cyber security business Darktrace becoming Cambridge’s 16th company to attain a billion dollar valuation. It is within striking... Read More