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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Investigatory Powers Bill: Reading someone else’s post is illegal, why should it be any different online?

November 4, 2015

Today’s Investigatory Powers Bill would provide security services with the licence to “snoop” on private communications and browsing history for the first time. It gives provision for access to personal web and phone data using bulk collection powers. The home secretary has been at pains to highlight how the contentious elements of the “snoopers charter” [...]
Bitcoin price has smashed the $500 mark

November 4, 2015

Bitcoin has gone through the roof, with the cryptocurrency passing $500 – a new 2015 high. The digital currency has surged 50 per cent in the past five days alone, as its gains have begun accelerating dramatically on the back of the EU’s recent decision to accept it as a currency. Charles Hayter of CryptoCompare [...]
Maersk Line is cutting 4,000 jobs to tackle slowing global trade

November 4, 2015

Maersk Line is slashing jobs, hit hard by deteriorating global trade. The world’s largest shipping company, part of Danish group Maersk, is cutting 4,000 jobs at least, scaling back over the next two years. Maersk has also decided to cancel plans to buy six new ships and scale back its capacity to tackle the continuing [...]
Black Friday 2015: Why UK shoppers are missing out the best deals from Amazon, John Lewis, Tesco and other retailers – bargains aren’t just for Christmas

November 4, 2015

Last year on Black Friday, UK shoppers spent an astonishing £562,500 per minute online. It was a year which saw Boxing Day, which is traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year, toppled off its perch for the first time in seven years due to the remarkable success of Black Friday. This wasn’t, however, the [...]
Sick of email? Google’s artificial intelligence software Smart Reply can write your emails for you

November 4, 2015

Sick of emails taking up half of your workday? Google’s got a solution for you in the form of artificial intelligence. Google has unveiled Smart Reply, software that can now write emails for you. The tool writes automatic responses to certain emails. Google software engineer Bálint Miklós wrote about the new tool on the company’s [...]
Worldpay upgraded to “BB” rating after successful IPO

November 4, 2015

Worldpay has been upgraded by ratings agency Standard & Poor’s after successfully completing its IPO. The British payments processor was the biggest London float of 2015 by far, when it listed on 13 October with an offer of 240p per share, giving it a market cap of £4.8bn. Since then, Worldpay stocks have climbed to [...]
I let myself be hacked by an ethical hacker and this is what I learned about cybersecurity

November 4, 2015

Let me tell you this: it’s quite a disconcerting feeling to sign a form agreeing to let a hacker break into all your personal data. Even when it’s an ethical one. I’d agreed to let cybersecurity expert Ollie Whitehouse do his worst, and access as much of my information online as possible. But waiting to [...]
Glencore share price soars to make it FTSE’s biggest riser as debt pile shrinks more than expected

November 4, 2015

Glencore is expecting net debt to fall to $25bn by the end of the year, as asset sales in Australia and Chile have helped shrink the miner’s mountain of debt. The embattled mining and trading giant, which has been struggling to reassure investors worried about the size of its debt pile, today announced a debt [...]
SABMiller and AB InBev request another extension on the megabrew deal deadline

November 4, 2015

The megabrew deal could be put off yet again. Brewing giants AB InBev and SABMiller have requested the UK Takeover Panel to extend the deadline by when they must formally agree on a takeover deal that would create the world’s largest brewer by far. Today was AB InBev's deadline to make a formal offer, but [...]
Bitcoin will become sixth largest global reserve currency by 2030

November 3, 2015

Bitcoin is going to be the world’s sixth largest global reserve currency, a new study has found, as blockchain becomes increasingly important to mainstream lenders. Interviewing 30 leading bitcoin companies, mergers and acquisitions adviser Magister Advisors found that over the next 15 years bitcoin is set to soar in popularity as a reserve currency, a [...]

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