Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos among backers of £4.5m Wagestream start-up fund
By: City AM September 9, 2018 The founders of Amazon and Microsoft have backed a London start-up that allows workers to access their wages before payday. “Get-paid-as-you-go” platform Wagestream has received £4.5m of funding from supporters including technology billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. Wagestream, which aims to end the “payday poverty cycle”, allows employees […]
Five Experts Share What Scares Them the Most About AI
By: Dan Robitzski September 5, 2018 Sophisticated AI could make the world a better place. It might let us fight cancer and improve healthcare around the world, or simply free us from the menial tasks that dominate our lives. That was the primary topic of conversation last month when engineers, investors, researchers, and policymakers got […]
Amazon’s Cashier-Free Stores Are Going National. And It Might Just Change the Future of Retail.
By: Kristin Houser August 28, 2018 MORE CHOICES. If you live in Seattle and want to pick up a quick snack without having to wait in a checkout line, you’ve now got two options for where you can do so. On Monday, Amazon officially opened its second cashier-less convenience store in the Emerald City. To […]
Jeremy Corbyn: I’ll tax tech firms to subsidise the BBC licence fee
By: Jim Waterson August 22, 2018 Jeremy Corbyn is to propose a tax on big technology firms such as Facebook, Google and Netflix, to subsidise the BBC licence fee as part of a sweeping range of measures to reform the British media industry. The Labour leader will warn that a “few tech giants and unaccountable […]
What is corporate social responsibility – and does it work?
By: The Conversation August 7, 2018 When you purchase a product, I imagine you hope that the product was made with attention to human rights: that production occurred without unfair wages, human trafficking, forced or child labour, discrimination, abuses, or safety hazards. Perhaps you also hope that the company producing the item is conscious of […]
More than 6m workers fear being replaced by machines – report
By: Richard Partington August 6, 2018 More than six million workers are worried their jobs could be replaced by machines over the next decade, according to a report urging trade unions and the government to provide more support for those at risk. The findings come as Yvette Cooper, the Labour chair of the Commons home […]
Businesses must address impact of next industrial revolution, says Siemens boss
By: The Guardian July 16, 2018 Global workforces will fall as the next industrial revolution gets under way, the head of one of Germany’s biggest firms has warned, unless workers are retrained with new skills. Joe Kaeser, global chief executive of the engineering giant Siemens, said up to almost a third of jobs could be […]
ESG data: availability, transparency, quality and investment applicability
By: THOMSON REUTERS July 16, 2018 ESG Data and its Evolution The sustainable investing space is facing some challenging questions around the availability, transparency, quality and investment application of ESG Data. In a recent webinar and over a series of blog posts we gather expert opinion on the data corporates are reporting and how it […]
Here’s Why The Blockchain Might Change the Future (And Why It May Not Live Up To the Hype)
By: Victor Tangermann July 5, 2018 It’s 2018, and here are some things that people are obsessed with: fizzy water, sriracha, purple everything, and… blockchain. Yes, that blockchain. The thing that everyone — from that guy you know who is suddenly crypto rich, to John Oliver to, well, us — has tried to explain to […]