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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GoPro share price tumbles to lowest point since IPO

October 29, 2015

GoPro shares have plummeted over 17 per cent since revealing sales falling short of expectations yesterday. The camera company’s share price was down to $25 in early Wall Street trading. This is just a dollar above the initial offering of $24 – and the lowest point since listing in 2014. The sell-off follows yesterday’s disappointing [...]
Workers with a “male brain” earn more money

October 29, 2015

Forget negotiating tactics and job changes. If you’re looking to raise your salary, the best thing you can do might be to make sure you’ve got the right kind of brain. Workers with a “male brain” (really) earn a significant amount more than those with a “female brain”, new research has shown, linking a male [...]
Emerging markets and commodities: These are 2015’s seven worst-performing funds

October 29, 2015

To say investors have been having a rocky 2015 is putting it mildly, with concerns over China’s worsening slowdown, a continuing commodities rout, and emerging markets getting pummeled. And all that before Black Monday came along and pulled the rug from under our feet as Chinese stocks fell to the floor on 24 August. But [...]
Playtech share price rises on soaring sales

October 29, 2015

Playtech’s sales have been soaring in the last quarter, pushing the gambling softwares company’s shares up. The figures Playtech reported revenues of €170.9m (£122.5m) in the third quarter of 2015. This is up 47 per cent against the same period last year. Adding back the impact of taxes, exchange rates and excluding the company’s recent [...]
Lord Davies report: Britain’s boardroom diversity risks hitting the brakes as the number of female directors is set to fall

October 28, 2015

The diversity of Britain’s boardrooms risks dropping over the next 18 months, just as women were starting to become a more common feature. Women currently make up 25 per cent of Britain’s blue-chip firms’ boards. But on the eve of Lord Davies’ review, which shows that UK companies managed to double the number of female [...]
Transport for London just made a chart showing how Tube travel has changed since 1928

October 28, 2015

See any men in bowler hats around on your last Tube journey? What about flappers bustling to get to a jazz concert? Probably not. Sure, there are plenty of obvious ways in which the London Tube has changed since 1928. But what about how our travel habits have changed? London Underground had an advert for [...]
AB InBev confirms SABMiller takeover financing as deadline on megabrew deal formal offer extended

October 28, 2015

AB InBev and SABMiller have been given another week to put together their megabrew merger deal, as the Takeover Panel agreed to extend the deadline for a formal offer. But worry not: Despite the extension, AB InBev has reassured shareholders that the deal is still firmly on track, confirming it has the financing for the [...]
The future of democracy must be digital: Our voting system needs to be modernised with electronic voting

October 28, 2015

Yesterday’s Lords vote on the government’s move to speed up electoral registration changes should put the issue of voter turnout and participation firmly back on the agenda. The debate cannot end there. The new voter registration measures end the system under which the head of the household can sign up all its residents at once. [...]
Which? outraged by TalkTalk’s hard line on compensation claims – but there may be a loophole to avoid paying a termination fee

October 28, 2015

TalkTalk took a hard line on customers hoping to end their contracts after the massive hack against the telecoms giant. Consumer rights groups are enraged – but a loophole may make it possible to leave without paying after all. The prospect of a mass exodus of TalkTalk customers worried about the safety of their data [...]
British American Tobacco share price rises on better-than-expected sales

October 28, 2015

Sales at the world’s second-largest tobacco firm beat expectations, but exchange rates are still a headache and British American Tobacco warned it hasn’t been left unaffected by the “slower than expected” global recovery. The figures British American Tobacco reported sales growth of 4.2 per cent in the first nine months of the year, ahead of analysts’ [...]

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