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News Corp., the parent company to The Wall Street Journal, on Wednesday announced a long-anticipated, multiyear deal to license its archived and current content to ChatGPT parent OpenAI.
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| Aug 17, 2022 | 14 times celebrities fought for equal pay in their starring roles | Entertainment 14 times celebrities fought for equal pay in their starring roles
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| Dec 30, 2020 | 12 times celebrities fought for equal pay in their starring roles | Octavia Spencer, Patricia Arquette, and Jessica Chastain have spoken out about Hollywood’s gender pay gap. Barcroft Media/Getty Images, Kevin Winter/Getty Images, Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images
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| May 12, 2018 | These are the 13 richest hedge fund managers in Britain - all worth more than £400 million | YouTube/ Simon Fielder
Crispin Odey, possibly Britain's most recognisable fund manager.
2017 was a good year for Britain's richest financiers, with the top 13 in the industry adding more than £1 billion to their cumulative wealth ... |
| Sep 26, 2016 | Cambridge tops the table in the Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide | Cambridge tops the table in the Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide
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Cambridge has been named the top university in the country according to The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017. It comes first in... |
| Apr 15, 2016 | Try Mouthwatering Recipes And Become A Master Chef With Jamie Oliver's Cooking App For iOS | Jem Gezen, Tech Times 15 April 2016, 05:04 am
Be a master chef overnight with Jamie Oliver's cooking app for iOS. The English chef has gained popularity for being a healthy-eating advocate and is well known for his TV show, The Naked C... |
| Mar 14, 2016 | Pharmalot, Pharmalittle: AstraZeneca reworks executive pay and revenue goals | Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was relaxing and invigorating, because that vociferous routine of meetings, deadlines, and the like has returned. You knew this would happen, though, y... |
| Mar 14, 2016 | Proposed UK Law Aims to Force Tech Companies to Build Back Door-Like Security Features into Software
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Search | In early March it was reported that the UK's Investigatory Powers Bill had been watered down in its final form. The report noted that "after being persuaded about the important role encoding communications played in the protection... |
| Oct 26, 2015 | TalkTalk says it was “not legally required” to encrypt leaked customer data | reader comments 44 with 37 posters participating, including story author
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| Sep 18, 2015 | Cambridge takes the top spot in the Times and the Sunday Times Good University Guide 2016 | Cambridge takes the top spot in the Times and the Sunday Times Good University Guide 2016
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East Anglia has the most satisfied students in the region.
Norwich University of the Arts makes its first appearance in the Times and Sunda... |
| Sep 18, 2015 | Cambridge takes the top spot in the Times and the Sunday Times Good University Guide 2016 | East Anglia has the most satisfied students in the region. Norwich University of the Arts makes its first appearance in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide in modern university top 10.
The University of Cambridge has been named... |
| Sep 3, 2015 | Barclays has two blockchain 'labs' in London and is planning 45 experiments with the technology | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Barclays Chief Design and Digital Officer Derek White. Barclays
Like pretty much every other major bank at the moment, Barclays is very int... |
| Sep 2, 2015 | Cambridge's Most Controversial Instagram Celebrity Gets the Last Laugh | Perhaps the most important thing to remember about Caroline Calloway is that she is in college. Having once been in college myself, I feel guilty bringing this up; I can remember very well the frustration of being essentially patted on the ... |
| Jul 26, 2015 | Now Boris Johnson has a fourth job after signing half a million pound book deal | |
| Jun 22, 2015 | Sunday Times Doubles Down On Government Stenography, Detailing Calls For Prosecution Following Its Own Debunked Story | You might think that after publishing a high profile story that was widely mocked and debunked, the Sunday Times and its reporter Tom Harper might write a more thoughtful followup. Instead, it appears that they have doubled down on the orig... |
| Jun 17, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | The Wall Street Journal reports that UN-sponsored talks over a ceasefire in Yemen have “hit a roadblock,” with the Houthi delegation unwilling to engage with the Yemeni government in exile. The delegation’s leader accused the exiled governm... |
| Jun 15, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | A U.S. airstrike in Libya conducted Sunday may have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a former al Qaeda leader responsible for the 2013 seizure of an Algerian gas plant that resulted in the deaths of 38 hostages. The Pentagon confirmed that Belmok... |
| Jun 15, 2015 | The Pulitzer Prize In Bullshit FUD Reporting Goes To… The Sunday Times For Its 'Snowden Expose' | Let’s start with this. Soon after Daniel Ellsberg was revealed as the source behind the Pentagon Papers, White House officials started spreading rumors that Ellsberg was actually a Soviet spy and that he’d passed on important secrets to the... |
| Jun 14, 2015 | Snowden files hacked by China and Russia | UK secret services say that the encrypted files Edward Snowden held from his time working at the NSA have been accessed by intelligence agencies in China and Russia. The Sunday Times reports that the top secret files have been hacked meanin... |
| Jun 3, 2015 | Are we having fund yet? New London VC Felix Capital gets $120m to back ‘digital lifestyle’ startups | There's no shortage of activity in the European VC landscape so close to summer break. In the space of a week, German entrepreneur Felix Petersen joined Faber Ventures as a partner, Berlin-based Point Nine Capital announced its new €55... |
| Jun 1, 2015 | More VC Musical Chairs In London’s Investor Community | In the latest game of VC musical chairs, more personnel changes have taken place in London’s Venture Capital community, including departures at MMC Ventures, Balderton Capital, DFJ Esprit, and Index Ventures.
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| May 26, 2015 | Главный дизайнер Apple получил повышение, чтобы вернуться домой?
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| May 25, 2015 | Leaked document shows Europe would fight UK plans to block porn | Before the UK elections earlier in the month, David Cameron spoke about his desire to clean up the internet. Pulling -- as he is wont to do -- on parental heartstrings, he suggested that access to porn on computers and mobiles should be blo... |
| Apr 28, 2015 | Bournemouth’s promotion push isn’t as romantic as it seems | |
| Apr 27, 2015 | Wimbledon Bans Selfie Sticks | The Wimbledon tennis tournament has banned selfie sticks.
The Sunday Times reports that the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club referred the “nuisance value” of the accessory (a monorod that is supposed to make taking selfies on cell p... |
| Mar 16, 2015 | George Osborne Budget 2015: Here’s everything we already know | |
| Mar 11, 2015 | Cooper Lomaz listed in nation’s top 25 best-to-work-for companies | Cooper Lomaz listed in nation’s top 25 best-to-work-for companies
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A national survey has ranked Cambridge Network members Cooper Lomaz Recruitment as the 22nd best small company to work for.
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| Mar 8, 2015 | UK Readies 25% ‘Google Tax’ On Tech Giants’ Diverted Profits | In the lead up to the UK’s national election in May, big tech companies are finding themselves in the crossfire. An article in the Sunday Times (paywalled) lays out more details around UK Chancellor George Osborne’s proposal for a “Google T... |
| Feb 13, 2015 | On Cameron’s Candor and Public-Private Cooperation for Monitoring Digital Communications | Susan Landau has published a thought-provoking critique on Lawfare of the UK Prime Minister’s recent remarks covering the powers he believes the State should be afforded to access the electronic communications of terrorist suspects. Crucial... |
| Nov 26, 2014 | Lyft Launches Destination Program to Recruit New Drivers | Quinten Plummer, Tech Times 26 November 2014, 05:11 pm
Lyft says it's taking a huge step forward by going back to its "routes" and offering Driver Destination, a new service that shows everyday motorists opportunities to pick... |
| Nov 24, 2014 | Confiscating Passports: Is this a Good Way to Stop Citizens from Joining Jihadists in Syria and Iraq? | Thousands of westerners, including at least 100 Americans and more than 500 Britons, are known to have joined ISIS or the Al Nusra Front in Syria and Iraq. In the United States and the United Kingdom small numbers may have already come back... |
| Oct 3, 2014 | The contradictions of biomass | The contradictions of biomass
03-10-2014
Drax is the world's largest biomass electricity generator. Is this good for the environment? asks The Scientific Alliance.
This week’s Sunday Times magazine featured a spread on Drax, the UK’s l... |
| Aug 26, 2014 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | ISIS continues to dominate headlines today as debate sharpens around expanded U.S. intervention in the crisis.
The New York Times reports that President Obama has authorized surveillance flights over Syria, a move that could be a precursor ... |
| Aug 22, 2014 | German Regulator Won’t Pursue Complaint Against Google | A regulator in Germany has reportedly decided not to pursue a complaint against Google by publishers who don’t like the way Google surfaces their articles.
While a law passed in Germany last year that enables publishers to keep Google and o... |
| Aug 18, 2014 | U.K. may start testing self-driving trucks in 2015 | Giant eighteen-wheelers are intimidating on the road as it is. Think of how scary they’ll become when they no longer have drivers.
The U.K. is considering a trial run of automated cargo trucks that travel in packs as soon as next year, the ... |
| Jul 14, 2014 | Germany to Google: maybe you should be treated like an electric company | Has Google reached the point where it needs to be regulated like a utility?
At least one German governmental agency is considering that possibility.
The Federal Cartel Office in that country has drawn up a 30-page document laying out altern... |
| Jul 14, 2014 | Should Google Be Regulated Like A Utility? | The idea of tech giants like Google being regulated like utilities isn’t a new one, but the topic is back in the public conversation this week, as Germany is considering treating Google and others this way.
Should Google be regulated like a... |
| Jul 13, 2014 | Vince Cable plans to expand foreign interest test for restricting foreign takeovers | |
| Jul 13, 2014 | German Cartel Office Says Google, Other Tech Giants Could Be Regulated Like Utilities | Germany has not been the biggest fan of tech giants that it believes overreach their influence. Now, a report claims that it is considering a new way to deal with them: regulating them like utilities.
The Sunday Times writes that the countr... |
| Apr 23, 2014 | Frenzy of pharma deals resembles 2008, but goal is leaner, more focused businesses | Between Pfizer and AstraZeneca deal rumors followed by a strategic portfolio exchange by GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis and an offer for Allergan this week, it feels like a deal frenzy is underway. When you look at the numbers from the first ... |
| Mar 7, 2014 | One Does Not Simply Find Satoshi Nakamoto | Newsweek’s decision to out Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto as the creator of bitcoin appears to be backfiring spectacularly.
Nakamoto was quick to deny that he was the 'real' Satoshi Nakamoto and he attributed the misunderstanding to his ... |
| Mar 7, 2014 | Mimecast Named One of UK's 100 Best Companies to Work For 2014 | Cloud Email Company New Entrant at 43rd in The Sunday Times Survey
London, UK - March 7th, 2014 - Mimecast, the leading cloud email security, archiving and continuity service has been included in this year's prestigious employee survey... |
| Feb 3, 2014 | Zalando may be preparing for an IPO | Zalando has gathered three banks to advise the German fashion retailer on what may be Europe’s biggest float since the dotcom bubble. Zalando’s choice has fallen on Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan en Morgan Stanley, but the shoe and fashion store ... |
| Jan 22, 2014 | How Much Does It Cost to Make a Video Game? | You pay $60 for many of the new games you play, but how much does a blockbuster game cost to make? Although it is a seemingly simple question, it is actually incredibly difficult to answer. Of all the opaque video game industry questions, t... |
| Oct 1, 2013 | News UK implements LivePerson to provide enhanced digital customer service on the new Sun+ platform | Publishing giant implements innovative customer engagement technology to meet the needs of a new audience of digital entertainment consumers
London – 1st October, 2013 – LivePerson Inc, (NASDAQ:LPSN) a leading provider of digital engagement... |
| Sep 12, 2013 | It’s official: Twitter takes first steps toward initial public offering | reader comments 33 with 30 posters participating
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Twitter has finally publicly acknowledged that it submitted an S-1 filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission—the com... |
| Jul 8, 2013 | TPG Buys TSL, Owner Of The TES Connect Education Network, For Around $600M | Some more movement in the world of ed-tech: TSL Education, the digital publisher behind services like TES Connect — billed as the “largest” network of teachers in the world with over 52 million users — is changing owners again. Investment f... |
| May 19, 2013 | Former Google Exec Turns Whistleblower On Company’s Tax Avoidance Machinations In The UK | Google is under fire in the UK for its tax practices in the country, and a new key witness (who spoke to The Sunday Times) might put them in deeper hot water when he hands over a reported 100,000 emails and documents to the British Revenue ... |
| Apr 5, 2013 | The shaky foundations of renewable energy policy | The shaky foundations of renewable energy policy
05-04-2013
Deviation of the actual temperature record from projected trends is becoming too great to ignore, says The Scientific Alliance.
Current EU energy policy is built on three key premi... |
| Feb 22, 2013 | Energy security should be a high priority | Energy security should be a high priority
22-02-2013
Chickens are coming home to roost - lack of investment in new generating capacity puts energy security at risk, says The Scientific Alliance.
For a number of years, commentators have warn... |
| Dec 12, 2012 | More on the USG Strategy to Separate the Good from the Bad in Syria | Last weekend I linked to a Sunday Times story by a usually reliable reporter, Christina Lamb, to the effect that the USG “is launching a covert operation to send weapons to Syrian rebels.” Today’s FT, however, quotes a senior Obama administ... |
| Dec 9, 2012 | Complexities in USG Covert Action to Supply Weapons to Syrian Rebels | Last week I noted that U.S.-blessed Qatari arms shipments meant for Libyan rebels were diverted to Islamist terrorist groups in North Africa. This morning’s papers imply the possibility of something similar happening in Syria. The New York ... |
| Oct 29, 2012 | Iran Claims Its Drone Beamed Sensitive Pictures from Israel Before Being Shot Down | You didn’t think it was just the US that loves drones, right? About a month ago, the Israeli military shot down an Iranian drone that has managed to fly about 25 miles into Israeli airspace. The Sunday Times previously reported that said dr... |
| Oct 22, 2012 | Tech companies pay next to no tax in United Kingdom | Despite making huge sums of money in the United Kingdom, many of the major tech companies based there pay surprisingly little tax. Exactly how little has only just started to come to light, thanks to investigations by several national newsp... |
| Oct 2, 2012 | FNB Partners mPowa To Boost Mobile Merchant Services | Following the conclusion of a business deal with leading UK technology company, mPowa, South Africa’s First National Bank (FNB) has revealed plans to introduce a new mobile payment service to its merchant services offering in the coming mon... |
| Jun 24, 2012 | RIM might sell its handset business to Facebook or Amazon | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Troubled BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion could sell off its handset business to “potential buyers” Facebook and Amazon and focus on... |
| Apr 17, 2012 | Notion Capital raises $100 million for Euro cloud companies | London’s Notion Capital just raised a $100m new fund focused on cloud computing and SaaS (software as a service) startups in Europe. The fund is expected to reach $150 million by the time it closes in the next few months.
Investments from N... |
| Apr 17, 2012 | Notion Capital raises $100 million for Euro cloud companies | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
London’s Notion Capital just raised a $100m new f... |
| Apr 1, 2012 | Funding Circle, a Kickstarter for SMBs, Picks Up $16M From Index, Union Square Ventures | Some great news for small business owners, and perhaps a sign of more crowdsourced funding coming to the U.S.: the UK-based Funding Circle — a kind of Kickstarter for lending to smaller enterprises — has just announced that it has raised a ... |
| Apr 1, 2012 | UK Government Plans Web and Email Monitoring Law | When I read about a new spying plan of the UK Government this morning I thought it was an April Fools prank.
However, with dozens of reports in established media it unfortunately appears to be very real.
According to a report in the Sunday ... |
| Mar 9, 2012 | Energy: low carbon, renewable or both? | Energy: low carbon, renewable or both?
09-03-2012
A report on the costs of low carbon and renewable energy originally commissioned by KPMG has now been published by AF Consult. What does this add to the debate? This week's Scientific A... |
| Mar 5, 2012 | Struck by a smooth criminal: hackers lift unreleased Michael Jackson songs | reader comments 113 with 78 posters participating
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Hackers got their hands on a number of unreleased Michael Jackson songs after attacking the Sony Music archive. Sony confi... |
| Feb 27, 2012 | Is Facebook Reading Users’ Texts or Not? | The London (Sunday) Times has claimed–in an article behind its paywall–that Facebook has read texts by users who use the social networking giant’s smart phone apps. Facebook allegedly did this while looking into a message service of its own... |
| Feb 27, 2012 | Facebook attacks SMS-poaching claims | News org claimed that a new Android app showed intent to catalog SMS information, Facebook denies
A Facebook official is speaking out against some claims that its latest Android update is reading and sending text messages for the smartphone... |
| Feb 27, 2012 | Facebook testing Android SMS integration, denies “spying” allegations | reader comments 37 with 25 posters participating
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Facebook is testing new mobile features for Android that integrate with the SMS functionality in smartphones, taking advant... |
| Feb 26, 2012 | Facebook Accused Of Reading Users’ Text Messages | Ahead of Mobile World Congress and an appearance by Facebook to explain its next moves in mobile, the social networking giant is coming under increasing strain over its use of users’ personal information. Mobile startups and operators are b... |
| Feb 26, 2012 | Report: Facebook Denies That It Read Users’ Text Messages [UPDATED] | Update: Facebook is denying claims raised by a British newspaper that reported it had read text messages of people who downloaded the Facebook app to their smartphones.
The London Sunday Times is reporting that Facebook read text messages o... |
| Dec 16, 2011 | The limits to renewable energy | The limits to renewable energy
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The Scientific Alliance publishes a new report on the potential of renewable energy, jointly with the Adam Smith Institute
The limits to renewable energy
This week, the Scientific Alliance was very ... |
| Mar 22, 2011 | Some Quick Unpaywalled Thoughts On Writing Behind A Paywall | Unless you’ve been living behind a paywall for the past few weeks, you’ll know that there are big changes afoot at the online edition of the New York Times.
Starting March 28th, American visitors to NYTimes.com will only be able to access 2... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | Apple needs Jony Ive more than it does Steve Jobs | There has been lots of recent speculation about whether Apple can go on without its CEO should he not return from medical leave. Steve Jobs may be visionary and iconic, but Jony Ive's value simply can't be overstated. Apple's... |
| Nov 2, 2010 | News Corp's pay wall deters readers | The corporation is celebrating its 105K readers, despite losing over 2 million
It’s hard to tell whether News Corp.’s Tuesday statement that its pay-walled news sites, The Times and The Sunday Times of London, have attracted 105,000 paying ... |
| Sep 20, 2010 | Amazon buying LoveFilm? It may be a ruse. | “Do I have any views on the rumoured sale of LoveFilm to Amazon? Many. But not for public consumption. Sorry!” That’s the quote from one of my sources close to the story that is developing around the so-called Amazon/LoveFilm discussions.
T... |
| May 25, 2010 | The Times is about to miss out on The Third Disruptive Wave | If social, mobile and the new wave of ecommerce are the Disruptive Third Wave, then, bluntly, The Times newspaper appears not to want any of that. Those were my first thoughts when I saw the new paywall sites of The Times and The Sunday Tim... |
| Россия могла с помощью коррупции выиграть право провести чемпионат мира по футболу | Россия и Катар, возможно, договорились голосовать друг за друга на выборах страны - хозяйки чемпионатов мира по футболу в 2018 и 2022 гг., что является нарушением правил FIFA. Кроме того, Россия подкупала международных футбольных чиновников... |
| Frenzy of pharma deals resembles 2008, but goal is leaner, more focused businesses | Between Pfizer and AstraZeneca deal rumors followed by a strategic portfolio exchange by GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis and an offer for Allergan this week, it feels like a deal frenzy is underway. When you look at the numbers from the first ... |
| David Cameron's plan to censor Internet porn hit an international snag | Redeem now
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron wipes his eye as he addresses a news conference during a European Union leaders summit in Brussels March 20, 2015. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir One of British Prime Minister David Cameron�... |
| Google обвиняют в уклонении от уплаты налогов | Бывший сотрудник британского подразделения компании Google обвинил компанию «аморальном уклонении» от уплаты налогов.
Как сообщает воскресная газета The Sunday Times, 34-летний бывший менеджер Google Барни Джонс работавший в компании с 2002... |
| Investment Update: Balderton lead $8m round in Thread | It is a huge pleasure to welcome Thread to the Balderton portfolio.
Thread stands alone as their unique solution understands and serves an often-forgotten customer base: the male clothes shopper. Their product shines through by combining s... |
| Xeros | Sunday Times: Waterless washing machine maker joins float cycle |