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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Buy-to-let boom coming to an end? One in five landlords going out of business hit hard by tax break cuts

September 25, 2015

Could the buy-to-let boom be coming to an end? The possibility of lucrative returns may have prompted many to invest in a buy-to-let property, but a new study suggests being a landlord may not be such a sure-fire investment after all. One in five landlords are forecast to be out of business within the next [...]
VW emissions scandal: Reduced emissions come at a price – if we aren’t prepared to accept this, we must expect more scandals like Volkswagen’s

September 24, 2015

The scandal that has engulfed Volkswagen over the measurement of oxides of nitrogen has been held up as yet another example of large companies pursuing profitability by dubious means at the expense of the rest of the population. But this is an oversimplification. We want the best of all worlds, and messages from government try [...]
Glencore’s share price falls further as commodities rout makes giant FTSE 100’s biggest loser – again

September 24, 2015

Glencore’s woes aren’t over yet, as the commodities firm’s share price plunged anew today, making it the FTSE 100’s biggest loser for the second day this week. Worries over China’s economic slowdown have been pushing the price of raw materials sharply down, and the commodities rout is taking its toll on Glencore, which is the [...]
Capitalism must and will evolve: Why benefit corporations will invigorate the UK’s economy

September 24, 2015

Good businesses do more than generate profit and always have done. When a business only focuses on generating profit to the exclusion of everything else, it isn’t realising its full potential. Businesses can and do make a very positive impact on social and environmental change and, what’s more, many business leaders and consumers want them [...]
How can companies protect themselves from cyber attacks? Seven questions businesses should be asking themselves to stay out of the hacking headlines

September 24, 2015

In the connected age, companies of all sizes are vulnerable to hackers and their reputations can suffer huge damage as a result. Ashley Madison was just the latest case of a wide-ranging data breach from which the business is still experiencing fall out, and the automotive sector has also been hit by a number of [...]
The economic impact of gender inequality: Equality would add $12tn to the world’s economy

September 24, 2015

Want to boost the global economy by, say, $12tn? Turns out there’s one simple thing that could make that happen: equality between the sexes. Gender inequality is costing us, according to a new report from McKinsey, attempting to calculate how much bigger the economic output would be ten years from now if women participated more [...]
iPhone 6S and 6S Plus UK release date and pre-order sales: Apple’s new flagship iPhone is already the UK’s second most popular phone – before hitting the stores

September 24, 2015

Apple’s new iPhone is landing in UK stores tomorrow. But even before going on sale, it’s become the second most popular phone in the country, new figures show. Based on pre-orders alone, Apple’s new iPhone is outstripping Samsung’s latest flagship phone, Galaxy S6. Released earlier this year, the Korean tech giant’s phone has been pushed [...]
iOS 9 problems: Apple issues first update to fix bug that left iPads and iPhones paralysed

September 24, 2015

A week after releasing iOS 9 to iPhone and iPad users, Apple has rolled out the first bug fix update to the operating system. The iOS 9 launch was plagued by technical glitches that kept it from being the happy occasion it should have been for Apple users, but the update promises to fix a [...]
How fast does New Horizons fly? This is what it looks like to look out of the window of the space probe

September 24, 2015

The New Horizons space probe is the fastest mankind has launched. But just how fast is that? Recently making headlines as it whipped past Pluto giving us stellar images of the dwarf planet, it’s now hurtling through space at a speed nearing 36,000 miles per hour. But such eye-watering speeds are beyond most of us [...]
ECJ surveillance opinion: What it means for data protection and why it’s important

September 24, 2015

Your photos, order histories going back years, postings (and more) probably sit in large buildings in the US. A huge amount of information about European citizens is held in the United States, particularly by US tech companies. For some, that has been a worry for a decade: Who can access that information in the US? [...]

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