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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Paris attacks 2015: Anonymous declares “total war” on Islamic State in chilling video

November 16, 2015

Anonymous has declared “total war” on the Islamic State (IS), following the terror attacks in Paris that left 132 dead and hundreds more injured. The group have announced their "biggest operation ever", first on Twitter, where Anonymous announced that they’re “also better hackers” than IS. https://twitter.com/GroupAnon/status/665956057005559808 The announcement was followed up by a Youtube video [...]
Bitcoin price: More people are now searching for bitcoin than Chinese yuan or Japanese yen – but it can’t match the pound or the dollar

November 16, 2015

Bitcoin’s wild surge and fall has had people flocking around the cryptocurrency. Now fresh data reveals that more people are interested in finding out how bitcoin is doing than the Chinese yuan, or renminbi. Google search data shows that more people have been searching for the digital currency than the renminbi over the past month, [...]
Uber’s new “destinations” feature means anyone can be a driver

November 16, 2015

Not content with just offering rides on demand in hundreds of cities worldwide, wildly popular ride-sharing app Uber is now moving into carpooling. The company’s new “destinations” feature will allow drivers to set their destination and pick up a passenger, so drivers heading in a specific direction can choose to pick up passengers heading the [...]
Paris attacks: France in air strikes against IS stronghold Raqqa in Syria

November 15, 2015

France is conducting air strikes against Raqqa, as both France and the US vow to step up their efforts against the Islamic state (IS) in response to Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris. Ten French fighter jets were deployed on Sunday evening, dropping a total of 20 bombs on the IS-held Syrian city. According to the [...]
France to go ahead with COP21 climate change summit despite Paris terror attacks

November 15, 2015

France will still be going ahead with global climate change summit in Paris at the end of November, defying the terror attacks that killed at least 129 people on Friday night. Prime Minister Manuel Valls said to French television station TF1 that far from cancelling it, the summit would be a chance for world leaders [...]
Paris attacks: Police issue appeal to find remaining terror suspect Abdeslam Salah as manhunt steps up

November 15, 2015

The manhunt to find a remaining terror suspect stepped up on Sunday evening, as French authorities continued their investigation into the terrorist attack on Paris on Friday night which left at least 129 people dead. French national police are seeking a man named Abdeslam Salah, who is suspected of being involved in the attacks. The Police [...]
Gatwick Airport to pursue second runway regardless of government’s decision on Heathrow expansion

November 15, 2015

Gatwick won’t be throwing in the towel on its flailing bid for a second runway, even if the government backs Heathrow in the longstanding expansion wars between the airports. Things aren’t looking bright for Gatwick, with the Airports Commission backing its bigger rival, arguing that the UK’s airport capacity crunch would be best resolved by [...]
Oil prices: IEA suggests global oil stockpile has hit record high as demand soars to five-year high

November 13, 2015

The world’s oil inventory has soared to new record levels, according to the latest report from leading energy forecaster International Energy Agency (IEA), which shows stockpiles reaching an unprecedented 3bn barrels. The record high comes as plunging oil prices have sent demand soaring to a five-year high, the forecaster writes in its monthly report: Stockpiles [...]
Facebook taking on Snapchat with disappearing messages

November 13, 2015

Facebook is trying out messages that will self-destruct within an hour after sending. Sound familiar? That’s probably because that’s exactly how rival Snapchat works. This isn’t the first time Facebook has attempted to muscle in on Snapchat’s popularity, either. The social media giant, which incidentally offered to buy Snapchat for $3bn back in 2013, previously launched the [...]
Apple closing down Beats Music after Apple Music’s success against rival Spotify

November 13, 2015

Apple’s music-streaming service Beats Music is no more, muscled out by the newer and shinier Apple Music. The tech giant announced late last night that Beats Music would be shut down at the end of the month, just six months after Apple Music was launched on trial subscriptions. The new music service attracted 11m subscribers [...]

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