EY-backed London marine insurtech Concirrus raises £5m September 25, 2018 London insurance technology startup Concirrus today closed a further £5m fundraising effort from deeptech investor IQ Capital and EOS Venture Partners, taking its total amount raised to date to £12m. The news comes after the firm signed a global deal with Big Four accountancy firm EY in April earlier this year, pushing Concirrus’ disruptive machine [...]
Opinion: How do you know when you’ve got a terrible property managing agent and what do you need to do about it? September 24, 2018 It’s fewer than 100 days until Christmas so now’s the time to ask Santa to bring you better estate managers for 2019. The process of changing agents tends to take at least three months, which is a long time to put up with under-performance but if you start now, you and your neighbours could start [...]
DEBATE: Could Donald Trump’s trade war be a positive force in reining in Chinese dominance? September 24, 2018 Could Donald Trump’s trade war be a positive force in reining in Chinese dominance? Alastair Benn, news editor of Reaction, says YES. Two centuries ago, the world experienced something historians call “the Great Divergence”. Pre-nineteenth century, America, Europe, China, and India formed an equilibrium at the heart of the global economy, taking up roughly [...]
Artificial Intelligence will take your job, and that’s no bad thing September 21, 2018 Earlier this week, a report from the World Economic Forum predicted that robots, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) will create 58m more jobs than it displaces. Good news, perhaps, but still, it could be your job that gets displaced. Without doubt, AI will take over the vast majority of process-driven work within the next 15 [...]
Artificial Intelligence will take your job, and that’s no bad thing September 21, 2018 Earlier this week, a report from the World Economic Forum predicted that robots, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) will create 58m more jobs than it displaces. Good news, perhaps, but still, it could be your job that gets displaced. Without doubt, AI will take over the vast majority of process-driven work within the next 15 [...]
Get ready for the robot revolution – and fast September 17, 2018 The rise of the robots has generated a fierce debate – one in which the doomsayers shout the loudest. However, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF), the future is bright: for every job that machines are due to displace worldwide by 2022, they will create almost two more – a net positive of 58m. They [...]
Get ready for the robot revolution – and fast September 17, 2018 The rise of the robots has generated a fierce debate – one in which the doomsayers shout the loudest. However, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF), the future is bright: for every job that machines are due to displace worldwide by 2022, they will create almost two more – a net positive of 58m. They [...]
World Economic Forum: AI will create more jobs than it takes September 17, 2018 Fears of mass displacement of jobs caused by the advent of automation and the rise of workplace robots have been overstated, according to a new report by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The Swiss think tank, which runs the Davos networking event, said that the impact of robots on work would be a “net positive”. [...]
World Economic Forum: AI will create more jobs than it takes September 17, 2018 Fears of mass displacement of jobs caused by the advent of automation and the rise of workplace robots have been overstated, according to a new report by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The Swiss think tank, which runs the Davos networking event, said that the impact of robots on work would be a “net positive”. [...]
Google rival Pricesearcher among private firms to join stock exchange capital-raising scheme September 17, 2018 Nine “ambitious” private companies, including a potential search engine rival to Google, have been selected to join the London Stock Exchange's capital-raising programme. The stock exchange has this morning added another cohort of companies to its ELITE programme, which gives fast-growing private firms access to expertise and investors. Pricesearcher – an unbiased search engine for [...]