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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EE’s Olaf Swantee plans to boost UK business by billions with push into business-to-business 4G

October 28, 2015

EE is flirting more with the business-to-business sector, as the telecoms giant claims that better wifi could boost the UK’s companies by billions of pounds. The company’s chief executive Olaf Swantee said to City A.M. that this is an important growth sector for EE: We’ve shown what 4G can do for consumers, and now businesses [...]
TalkTalk cyber attack: Cybercrime UK’s single most common offence

October 27, 2015

Last week’s cyber attack against telecoms firm TalkTalk has brought cybercrime back to headlines – and new figures show it is by far the largest single type of crime in the UK. Last year, 2.5 million cyber crimes and over five million cases of online fraud were committed in England and Wales, a figure recently [...]
Black Friday 2015 UK: Last year’s chaos at Tesco, Asda, John Lewis, Currys and Argos has put bargain hunters off

October 27, 2015

Is last year’s mayhem putting a dampener on Black Friday this year? New figures would suggest yes. Black Friday sales drew shoppers in their millions last year as the American shopping extravaganza came to the UK. But the unprecedented throngs left many with a bad taste in their mouth – and this could be a [...]
Forget the data roaming charge overseas: It’s just been banned across the EU

October 27, 2015

Good news for tourists and business travellers alike: Those pesky roaming charges are about to become history (at least within the European Union). The European Parliament today voted to ban data roaming charges across all EU countries, starting 15 June 2017. Roaming charges are what mobile operators charge you to use mobile internet overseas. You [...]
Hipsters sending Britain’s wine producers soaring

October 27, 2015

The number of new UK wine producers is flying – and it’s all down to your friendly neighbourhood hipster. The HMRC received 65 applications from budding wine producers last year – up 41 per cent from the 46 applications that came in the year before. Looking back, the figure has doubled in the past two [...]
The Australian Securities Exchange is “considering” replacing CHESS with bitcoin technology blockchain

October 27, 2015

The Australian Securities Exchange could be about to replace its current clearing and settlement technology with blockchain. Blockchain could save both time and money in the current Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS), said ASX chief executive Elmer Funke Kupper, who is “seriously considering” using the celebrated technology: We see CHESS replacement as a one in 20-year [...]
Tesla Autopilot fail: Driverless car developers need to stop prioritising speed over market safety

October 23, 2015

Last week, amid a wave of anticipation, Tesla released a software update that propels us one step closer to a world of driverless consumer vehicles. The Autopilot software will allow cars to change lanes at the flick of a switch, detect other vehicles, adjust speeds in response to traffic and even park themselves. How do [...]
European Court of Justice: Bitcoin is exempt from VAT

October 22, 2015

Europe’s top court, the European Court of Justice, has ruled that transactions made with digital currencies such as bitcoin should be exempt from VAT. The EU court wrote in its ruling that bitcoin transactions “are exempt from VAT under the provision concerning transactions relating to currency, bank notes and coins used as legal tender”. The [...]
Cybercrime: IT workers are actually the office’s worst offenders when it comes to IT security

October 22, 2015

How’s this for ironic:it turns out the office’s tech-savvy IT workers are actually the greatest offenders when it comes to scrimping on IT security. In its annual Insider Risk Report 2015, Intermedia has analysed online security habits of over 2,000 UK and US employees. The report found that, well, pretty much all of us have [...]
Deloitte: Bitcoin isn’t ready to be regulated yet

October 22, 2015

Deloitte has said bitcoin doesn’t need to be regulated yet, comparing the digital currency to technologies like the telephone and the internet, which were both given decades to mature before regulation. In its report, “Bitcoin at the crossroads”, the professional services firm said despite the financial industry’s excitement over bitcoin and blockchain, the underlying technology supporting it, [...]

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