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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“Concrete” bomb threat cancels football match in Hanover between Germany and Netherlands

November 17, 2015

A friendly football match between Germany and the Netherlands was called off because of “concrete plans” to cause an explosion in the stadium, German police said. The stadium in Hanover was evacuated, and the match cancelled, after reports that a “suspicious object” had been found at the stadium. Police later said that no object was [...]
Ofcom: BT charging £1.7m EE bill to Openreach “inappropriate”

November 17, 2015

BT has been slammed by Ofcom for trying to let its Openreach division foot part of the bill for its acquisition of rival EE, as the deadline draws near for the telco watchdog’s probe into the UK broadband market. Openreach, which controls the country’s broadband network, has been charged £1.7m for BT’s takeover of EE, [...]
Passenger tried to enter cockpit on British Airways flight 213 from London to Boston

November 17, 2015

An “unruly” woman attempting to enter the cockpit on a British Airways flight bound for Boston had to be restrained and met by state troopers upon landing, according to US police. Flight 213 left London Heathrow at 11.57am UK time, and landed at 1.30pm local time (6.30pm GMT) at Boston’s Logan airport, where Massachussett State [...]
Libor trial: Former ICAP broker Darrell Read said “barrow boy” brokers get ignored by bankers

November 17, 2015

A former ICAP broker accused of Libor rigging told a London court yesterday that brokers have too low a status to affect bankers' decision making. At the opening of the defence's case in the second London Libor trial, Darrell Read told the jury that brokers are routinely ignored by bankers when it comes to setting [...]
Anonymous begins leaking Islamic State fighters’ details after declaring “total war” in response to Paris attacks

November 17, 2015

Anonymous has begun exposing alleged terrorists after the hacker group declared a “total war” on the Islamic State in retribution for the terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 132 people. Yesterday the hacker group warned that they’d be launching their “biggest operation ever”, addressing IS fighters directly in a Youtube video, in which a presenter [...]
Mobile market predictions: China to overtake US smartphone market by 2021, global data traffic soaring tenfold

November 17, 2015

China is set to overtake the US in smartphone subscriptions by 2021, as global data traffic is poised to grow tenfold in the same time period. They may be ruining our sleep, but we still can’t get enough of our smartphones. There’s already 3.4bn in use around the world today, but they’re set to double [...]
Gender pay gap: Women paid less than men in 90 per cent of sectors

November 17, 2015

British women get paid a fifth less than their male counterparts – and new figures show that the finance and insurance sectors are the worst at closing the gender pay gap. The pay gap between men and women exists in 90 per cent of sectors, shows a study from the UK Commission for Employment and [...]
Google to start showing Facebook content in search results

November 16, 2015

Facebook is set to begin allowing data from its mobile app to show up in Google searches, as the tech giant unexpectedly gives its rival a boost. Google search results on smartphones will begin displaying some content from the Facebook app, according to reports in the Wall Street Journal. A Facebook spokesperson said: When people [...]
Cable & Wireless chief Phil Bentley on Liberty Global takeover: “This is an offer that doesn’t come along every day”

November 16, 2015

Cable & Wireless chief exec Phil Bentley said the deal with Liberty Global would boost growth helped by the sheer scale of Liberty Global’s business. “We’re a $2.5bn business, and Liberty Global are an $18bn business,” Bentley said to City A.M. shortly after announcing that his company had agreed to Liberty’s £3.5bn takeover offer after [...]
Liberty Global to buy Cable & Wireless in £3.5bn deal

November 16, 2015

John Malone's Liberty Global is taking over Cable & Wireless Communications, as the telco firms announced today they’d reached an agreement on a $5.3bn (£3.5bn) deal which will strengthen Liberty Global’s position in the Caribbean. The agreement follows on weeks of negotiation talks between the companies. Liberty Global’s intentions were made public on 22 October, [...]

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