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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YouGov revenues jump as pollster’s strong US growth continues

October 12, 2015

Pollsters may not be the flavour of the month among politicos after their wholesale failure to predict the outcome of the General Election – but that doesn't seem to have stopped YouGov… The figures The pollster's momentum continued unabated in 2015: today it reported a 13 per cent jump in revenue to £76.1m in the year to the end [...]
UK leads record drop in carbon emissions as City told to gear up for climate finance opportunities

October 12, 2015

The UK leads the steepest decline in carbon emissions since 2000 – and analysts suggest London’s financial markets should be gearing up for climate finance opportunities. The country’s greenhouse gas emissions dropped by 10.9 per cent last year, according to PwC’s annual report Low Carbon Economy Index 2015. This puts the UK ahead of all [...]
Peckham, Woolwich and Southwark: This is the fried chicken guide to London’s best property deals

October 9, 2015

What does fried chicken have to do with property prices? Everything – at least if these maps are to be believed. Mapping the number of chicken shops against the number of fancy coffee places has revealed the pockets of London which are “up and coming”. This unusual guide for property investors hoping to find the next big [...]
Worldpay IPO draws near as price range narrows to 235-250p

October 9, 2015

Payments processing company Worldpay’s IPO is drawing near, after the company narrowed its IPO price range to 235-250p in what will be the UK’s biggest float in two years. The company, owned by Advent International and Bain Capital, recently confirmed plans to raise £890m through a float on the London Stock Exchange in October. The news [...]
Longest Tube interchange: 10 Tube stations where changing lines takes longest

October 9, 2015

It’s not just your imagination: You really are spending hours of your life wandering around the labyrinthine tunnels that connect the different Tube lines at Bank and Monument. But as far as long Tube interchanges go, it’s not actually London’s worst. That dubious honour goes to Paddington, where the connection between the Bakerloo and Hammersmith [...]
Elon Musk: Apple hires the engineers Tesla fires

October 9, 2015

Elon Musk has lashed out at Apple, suggesting the company is the “Tesla graveyard” which hires his company's rejects. The outspoken chief executive and billionaire investor has hit back at suggestions Apple has been pinching Tesla’s engineers as it pushes into the car sector, saying in an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt that Apple is where you go [...]
Netflix share price jumps after reports that the company is hiking its prices

October 8, 2015

Streaming giant Netflix is reportedly raising the price of its streaming subscription by $1, reports Bloomberg. This will put the company's most popular subscription plan at $9.99 a month. The move, which will affect new customers in the US, Canada and parts of Latin America, follows on a similar hike in Europe, where prices were [...]
Samsung reassures customers after hack of Samsung Pay provider LoopPay is uncovered

October 8, 2015

Samsung has reassured customers after it was revealed that the company’s new mobile payment system’s provider was hacked for months. LoopPay, the company that provides integral technology to Samsung’s mobile payment system, was infiltrated by Chinese hackers in February, the New York Times revealed yesterday. The hackers had access to the network since at least [...]
Britons’ worries about cyber attacks grow after high profile hacks against Ashley Madison and Carphone Warehouse

October 8, 2015

Fear of exposure to cyber crime is growing, on the back of several recent high-profile hacks that have left 71 per cent of British workers worried that data theft is “inevitable”. In August hackers exposed private information about 37m users of adultery website Ashley Madison. Not long after, a data breach at Carphone Warehouse put [...]
Renewable energy investment drops to 11-year-low hit hard by George Osborne’s scrapped green energy tax exemption

October 8, 2015

European investment into renewables has tumbled to an 11-year-low, as policy changes in the UK have pummeled green energy growth hard. European countries invested a total of £3.8bn into renewable energy over the past quarter – leaving investment down 48 per cent compared to the same period last year. Although this is partly explained by [...]

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