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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Domino’s Pizza Group forms venture with Domino’s Pizza Enterprises to buy Germany’s biggest operator Joey’s Pizza

December 15, 2015

Domino’s is getting a slice of the German pizza business. The London-listed pizza company has formed a joint venture to buy Joey’s Pizza, Germany’s largest pizza delivery firm, in a deal worth €79m (£57.6m). To buy the German company, Domino’s Pizza Group formed a joint venture with Domino’s Pizza Enterprises. Domino’s Pizza Group will own [...]
McAfee cybersecurity report: Mobile banking apps are exposing us to cyber attacks

December 15, 2015

Badly designed mobile apps are quickly becoming one of the biggest leaks exposing our personal data to cyber crooks, according to fresh security research from McAfee showing that threats are now being detected at the rate of five per second. Hackers are exploiting the weak security coding practice used in many mobile apps, and this [...]
Addison Lee introduces feature allowing you to “snooze” your minicab if you’re not ready to leave the Christmas party

December 15, 2015

With less than ten sleeps to go til Christmas, London’s taxis and minicabs are bracing for the mayhem when peak Christmas party hits this weekend. But one of them has a new trick up their sleeve that might just help you and them both. Friday is expected to be the busiest day of the year [...]
Global business won’t slow down for Christmas: How can businesses use mobile working to make the most of their employees over the holidays?

December 15, 2015

As Christmas closes in, we all start to look fondly towards home. For business, ‘tis the season of empty desks, out-of-office emails and manic attempts to complete final tasks as employees rush out to catch the afternoon train. On the other hand, among those left in the office, it’s commonplace to see productivity plummet across [...]
Blockchain and mobile payments are sending banks’ spend on payment tech soaring in 2016

December 15, 2015

Blockchain and mobile payments are sending payment tech spend soaring next year, new research has found. Globally, some 61 per cent of banks expect to increase their payment technology expenditure next year, according to a report from tech firm Ovum. This is a significant rise on 2015, when 52 per cent hiked their spending in [...]
From The Shard to Heathrow Airport to the price of a pint: How has London changed in the past fifty years?

December 15, 2015

The world is a very different place to what it was in 1965 and London, of course, is no exception. Back in the Swinging Sixties a week’s worth of Tube rides would set you back just 77p. Even adjusting for inflation that’s only half of the sums we’re throwing at Transport for London for a [...]
Tech giant patent wars heading for Supreme Court: Samsung appeals patent ruling in Apple and iPhone’s favour over smartphone design

December 14, 2015

The latest chapter of the tech giant patent wars sees the drama heading all the way to the US Supreme Court. Samsung appealed a patent ruling in Apple’s favour in a last-minute bid to minimise the over $500m in damages it’s been forced to pay its rival. The Korean tech giant paid $548.2m to Apple [...]
New EU data protection rules could ban teenagers from social media services like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat

December 14, 2015

EU lawmakers are about to introduce new data protection laws that would require parents to approve their children’s use of social media and chat apps. With hours to go before the final discussions of the new law begin tomorrow, a last-minute change has taken centre-stage, with critics arguing teenagers are being “banned from the internet”. [...]
Bitcoin just became the national currency of Atlantis (really)

December 14, 2015

No seriously, bear with us here… Bitcoin just became the national currency of the tiny island Pontinha, a self-proclaimed country off the coast of Portugal. The micronation, which is in the process of being renamed Atlantis after the mythical lost civilisation, has officially adopted bitcoin as its currency – making it “the first country in [...]
Fintech 100: UK dominates KPMG’s global list of top fintech firms of 2015 with Transferwise, Funding Circle and Atom Bank

December 14, 2015

As if you needed more proof that the UK fintech scene is booming… The UK is dominating a list of top fintech firms, with more emerging firms than any other country in the world, according to KPMG’s “Fintech 100”. The list of the leading fintech firms of 2015 is made up of 50 established firms [...]

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