By: Clara Guibourg

Clara Guibourg is an Online Writer at City A.M. She can be contacted at clara.guibourg@cityam.com. She is particularly passionate about women in business, technology and telecoms.

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How young is too young to leave your kid alone online? Parents are leaving their four-year-olds to use the Internet unsupervised

January 6, 2016

How young is too young to leave kids alone online? Younger than you might imagine, and falling fast, as it turns out. Until recently, most parents supervised their kids well into their tweens. Today, the average four-year-old is let loose unsupervised, according to research from price comparison site uSwitch. Parents with children aged one to [...]
Jack Dorsey confirms Twitter is exploring removing the 140 character limit

January 5, 2016

One of Twitter’s standout features may soon be a thing of the past, but investors weren’t wowed by chief exec Jack Dorsey confirming the firm is toying with removing the 140 character limit. Rumours from Silicon Valley hinting at Twitter plans to expand to a 10,000 character limit sent users into headspin. But it wasn’t [...]
UK dealmakers: M&A deals take too long to close as indecisive sellers hold up mergers

January 5, 2016

UK dealmakers complain that M&A deals take too long to close, as fresh research shows that the average deal wastes 12 working days. The M&A market may be booming, but most dealmakers want to be able to close twice as many deals as they do today. Data room provider Ansarada surveyed over 500 bankers, lawyers, [...]
Aberdeen falls to lowest point since 2012 on Barclays downgrade

January 5, 2016

Aberdeen Asset Management shares fell to a three-and-a-half-year low today, weighed heavily by a Barclays downgrade. Investors were rattled by a note from the bank downgrading the stock to “underweight” from “equalweight” amid worries it would need to work harder to slash costs. Aberdeen closed 2.4 per cent lower on the news at 275.2p, its [...]
UK pensions: Over one million Londoners have lost pension pots

January 5, 2016

Keeping track of our pension funds as we flit from job to job is a challenging task, and a fresh survey has found that 1.3m Londoners are missing out on pension pots. We know, pensions aren’t exactly the most exciting thing, and you’re a busy person. But that negligence could be costing you dearly – [...]
Strong US car sales heading for a record year in 2015 as General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Fiat and Nissan post booming sales

January 5, 2016

US car makers posted strong December sales, fuelling expectations that 2015 sales will hit a record high, as analysts suggest a stronger economy and plunging petrol prices could send 2016 sales soaring higher still. December sales hit 17.8m vehicles, according to General Motors, besting the previous record from 2000 of 17.35m. The country’s car sales, [...]
Ban Donald Trump from the UK? MPs to debate petition to ban the Republican frontrunner from entering the country on 18 January

January 5, 2016

MPs have been granted a debate on whether or not to ban controversial US presidential candidate Donald Trump from entering the UK following a petition that was signed by some 560,000 people. A Commons committee which vets all petitions that get more than 100,000 signatures approved the petition for a Westminster Hall debate, slated to [...]
New garden city near Heathrow Airport: First look at the Bedfont Lakes Neighbourhoods that could bring 20,000 jobs and 2,000 homes to Hounslow

January 5, 2016

Hounslow council has just published artist’s impressions of the Bedfont Lakes Neighbourhood development, revealing for the first time what the planned garden city near Heathrow is set to look like. The borough is hoping that the development, part of its Western Borough plan, will bring as many as 20,000 jobs and 2,000 homes to the [...]
Cybersecurity predictions 2016: Expect geopolitical cyber attacks in the wake of the US Presidential election and the Rio Olympics

January 5, 2016

New York City in the 1980s was a portrait for crime and violence. Graffiti covered train stations and shop fronts, the city was gritty and a tough place to live. It spurred many politicians to be “tough on crime” in order to get elected and while it still features in many politicians’ policies, it no [...]
Orange and Bouygues Telecom share price soars on confirmed merger talks but French telco deal faces competition probes

January 5, 2016

France’s largest mobile operator Orange has confirmed merger talks with rival Bouygues, marking the latest step in European telco firms’ race towards consolidation. A deal between the two, merging France’s largest and third-largest operators, has been estimated to be worth €10bn (£7.3bn). Rumours of the talks were first reported by French newspaper Journal de Dimanche [...]

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