Thought leaders come together to discuss mental wellbeing, the future of work and the power of ‘good’ October 13, 2021 The CA Summit sponsored by Markel Tax returned for an event split across three days starting on 5 October, which brought together the brightest minds from the worlds of finance, academia, and the technology industry to deliver a series of challenging, thought-provoking and truly motivational seminars to inspire ICAS Members around the globe. The transformational power of [...]
Time Out to open Abu Dhabi market as it banks on post-Covid recovery February 3, 2021 Time Out today unveiled plans to open a new food market in Abu Dhabi as the media group pins its hopes on a return to dining out after the pandemic. The market, which is set to open on Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island in 2023, will be the company’s second location in the United Arab Emirates, [...]
Winning design for 21st Century City Police Boxes unveiled June 29, 2021 Traditional police boxes in the Square Mile are set to be reimagined as new ‘Digital Service Points’ after the City of London Corporation announced the winning design today (29 June). The design competition winner, ‘The London Stones’ by architecture and design studio Unknown Works, includes space for digital information screens, essential communication technology and for [...]
Screenshot: Will Sunak save music festival season? January 8, 2021 A weekly column from City A.M. bringing you all the biggest stories and trends in technology, media and telecoms This week **Media Moment of the Week: Reporting from the ruins of democracy **A rallying cry to save music festivals **Youtube, Talk Radio and the quagmire of online regulation Media Moment of the Week I usually [...]
The investor’s dilemma: do sustainable funds need a digital detox? March 3, 2021 Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma makes for uncomfortable viewing for users of social media channels such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube or Twitter. i.e. pretty much all of us. And as a sustainability specialist who invests (at the time of writing) in Alphabet , the parent company of Google and YouTube, I find the issues covered extra [...]
Big Tech earnings: What to expect this week as tech titans report July 27, 2021 Wall Street is gearing up for a slew of Big Tech earnings this week with Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft all set to deliver figures for their latest quarter. Twitter and Snap kicked off proceedings by smashing expectations last week, raising hopes that a post-pandemic advertising rebound will boost other platforms. Tesla also shrugged [...]
Defeated but not deflated: Anthony Joshua thanks London after stunning loss to Oleksandr Usyk September 26, 2021 Anthony Joshua took to social media hours after his reign as world heavyweight champion was ended and a ‘Battle of Britain’ against Tyson Fury is in tatters following Oleksandr Usyk’s stunning win at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Joshua said his world “is crumbling in front you” but he urged fans to be positive and thanked them [...]
The culture wars in numbers: we’re not as divided as we think we are June 12, 2021 “These days you get arrested and thrown in jail if you say you’re English, don’t you?” This opening gambit from a taxi driver in a Stewart Lee routine is an extreme example of the belief that speech is increasingly, and literally, policed “these days” – but it works because it reflects a real divide. The country is [...]
Boris Johnson to chair Cobra meeting today as UK tries to get nationals out of Afghanistan August 16, 2021 Boris Johnson will hold a Cobra meeting at 12.30pm today as the government tries to get thousands of UK nationals and foreign visa holders out of Afghanistan. Number 10 said the current focus was on getting hundreds of people out of Kabul each day as the security situation becomes more dangerous in the Afghani capital. [...]
Wounded Boris Johnson to call emergency Cabinet meeting as Tory rebels refuse to back down after worse-than-May vote June 7, 2022 It is understood Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to call his Cabinet together this morning as the embattled Tory leader seeks to keep his premiership afloat by putting a bruising confidence ballot firmly behind him. The Prime Minister insisted he had secured a “decisive” victory despite 148 of his own MPs voting to oust him [...]