All eyes on The Amazon June 8, 2018 All Eyes on the Amazon has been awarded £300,000in funding from players of People's Postcode Lottery. This funding will save one million hectares of Brazilian Amazon rainforest through an innovative training programme for local forest ranger teams. This will allow them to use drones, smartphones, and satellite-based monitoring systems to collect images, maps, and stories [...]
Bitcoin back above $51,000 and Ethereum/AWS tie-up could mean big innovation March 3, 2021 The Crypto AM Daily update sees Bitcoin back above $51,000 and could the Ethereum/AWS tie-up mean big innovation?
Amazon strides past $2,000 a share in trillion-dollar race August 30, 2018 E-commerce behemoth Amazon has broken past the $2,000 (£1,538) per share mark, putting the online retailer well on its way to hitting a $1 trillion market valuation. Shares in Amazon reached an all-time high of $2,010 just an hour after markets opened in the US, powering the firm past the $980bn market capitalisation milestone. Amazon made [...]
Netflix’s value hits record $196bn in coronavirus lockdown April 17, 2020 Netflix has become a more valuable company than both US oil giant Exxo Mobil and rival Disney as demand for home entertainment booms amid the coronavirus lockdown. Shares in the streaming company climbed five per cent on Thursday to a new record high of $448, taking its market value to $196bn. At the same time, [...]
Licence to kill: Will the Bond debacle be fatal for the UK’s cinema sector? October 6, 2020 It was a plot twist that would have made Ian Fleming proud. For decades James Bond has been a leading light of cinema, delivering a reliable string of blockbuster hits to line pockets in Hollywood. But overnight the suave spy has been transformed into a villain, and has left cinemas fighting for survival. The decision [...]
Bolsonaro will accept aid offer if Macron withdraws ‘insults’ as Trump pledges support August 27, 2019 US President Donald Trump has said that his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro is “working very hard” on the burning Amazon, as Bolsonaro said he would only accept international aid if France’s leader withdraws “insults”. On Twitter, Trump said said right-wing firebrand Bolsonaro has the US’s “complete support.” “He is working very hard on the Amazon [...]
Taxing Amazon won’t save the UK high street August 16, 2018 A couple of years ago, a well-known retailer announced a bold new strategy for its online offering, including a proposal to shut down its website outside normal working hours so that shoppers could savour the times when it was open. It was, of course, an April Fool’s prank, but it has lingered in the memory far [...]
‘Edtech’ surges to the top of the class August 6, 2020 From near-ubiquitous interactive whiteboards to cloud platforms, coding and coaching via video-call, education technology has travelled a long way since schools introduced basic computing laboratories in the 1980s. These advancements have been given a further powerful push by the digital acceleration triggered by coronavirus: most visibly in the need for teaching professionals to deliver classes [...]
Recruiter Cordant scrambles to raise cash after clash with lenders February 23, 2020 Cordant, one of the largest recruitment agencies in the UK is rushing to raise new cash after coming close to collapse following a row with its lenders. The company, whose clients include Lloyds, Amazon and Tesco, is racing to secure a deal with investors that would end the majority ownership of the Ullmann family, who [...]
How to break up big tech? Regulating technology companies is more easily said than done February 20, 2020 Over the last few years, the public perception of technology companies has shifted quite dramatically. Large tech firms such as Google, Facebook and Amazon are no longer the darlings of the world. They are attracting the same kind of ire that financiers attracted a decade ago. At the political level, this translates into a broad [...]