Cambridge Today Blog
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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
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Cambridge role in new Apple Siri speaker?
We may find out next week exactly why Apple was minded to pay up to $100 million for Cambridge speech recognition technology startup VocalIQ in... Read More
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$32bn Japanese takeover of ARM good: £74m Chinese acquisition of Sepura bad?
The UK government has refused to disclose why it is probing the proposed £74 million acquisition of Sepura by the Hytera Corporation of China, other... Read More
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Payback time through people power
The US was an ultra-protectionist economy under Bill Clinton and Barack Obama so don’t let what you read in self-serving UK media try to persuade you... Read More
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Cambridge tech train becomes Orient express
Slowly but surely the orientation of the Cambridge science & technology cluster has – well – shifted towards the Orient. Whereas the US once... Read More
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Brexit carnage should be Buchan obvious by now
Eerie how often the past informs the future. Author John Buchan – alarmed at the growing nationalistic movement in Germany eight years before World... Read More
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Why can’t a woman be more like a man?
That’s what Rex Harrison intoned as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady. Life would appear to be imitating art as eyebrows of both genders are raised... Read More
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Cambridge’s AI cluster could help boost UK economy by $814bn in under 20 years
It should come as no surprise to students of game-changing innovation that Cambridge in the UK is often ahead of the curve in blazing a trail ... Read More
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ARM-Intel alliance turns secret silo into open hothouse
Former ARM CEO Warren East – now busily re-engineering UK industrial giant Rolls-Royce – was always realistic about the Cambridge technology company’... Read More
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Massive upsurge in overseas entrepreneurs in UK
One of the nastiest elements of the EU Referendum was the overt and insidious racism it stirred in many Brexit supporters in the homes and on the... Read More
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How many jewels left to sell from Cambridge’s crown?
The impending sale of ARM to SoftBank takes the most dazzling jewel in Cambridge’s technology crown into overseas ownership. It has been quite a... Read More
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
The argument goes that Britain needs a more US-style funding model and to start hurling bigger amounts of money at startups much earlier in their... Read More
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From enlightenment back to the dark ages
It’s early 2017 and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and US President Donald Trump are deciding how to spend their first summit meeting – playing snap... Read More
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Time for ‘Sure of Shoreditch’ not ‘Vague on The Hague’
It was former US businessman Bert Lance, a member of the Jimmy Carter administration, who is credited with coining the anti-activists’ mantra: ‘If it... Read More
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Cambridge: A ‘city state’ or a city in a state?
I remember Business Weekly newspaper getting a call from a Tony Blair accolyte in the early ’90s flagging up how the power base in East Anglia was... Read More
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Smart infrastructure: a Tale of Three Cities
This won’t take long. In terms of infrastructure and transport strategy, which of these cities is the odd one out: Cambridge UK; Boston US;... Read More
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Global technology: No-one can say there’s no ARM in it!
ARM’s products group president Pete Hutton anticipates the day a few years hence when an analyst somewhere in the world congratulates the company for... Read More
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Patent portfolios: Tin foil or armour?
We live in cynical times so I feel no need to sanitise my view of what should be the logical business stance regarding the value of patents to both... Read More
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Even ARM and Dyson cannot pep UK’s innovation status!
For the fifth successive year not one UK business made the Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators. Considering that we operate under the... Read More
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Building on the legacy of Byron’s daughter
Byron once wrote: “Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at?” The poet’s only legitimate daughter, Ada Lovelace, has been... Read More