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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The Baubax travel jacket just became the most funded piece of clothing on Kickstarter ever

September 4, 2015

Crowded, uncomfortable and full of strangers you have to make awkward eye contact with – and when it’s not uncomfortably hot it’s bitingly cold. Yep, the daily commute is full of discomforts. And let’s not even talk about air travel… It’s no surprise, then, that the internet has welcomed the Baubax jacket Kickstarter campaign with [...]
Refugee crisis: Where Syria’s four million refugees have fled – how does the UK’s refugee policy measure up?

September 3, 2015

The horrifying image of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old child lying drowned on a Mediterranean beach, has jolted the world into higher gear over the growing refugee crisis. As grassroots movements across Europe are launching volunteer campaigns and petitioning politicians to accept more refugees, UK Prime Minister David Cameron is under growing pressure to do more, [...]
Samsung Gear S2: Could this sleek new smartwatch be the Apple Watch killer the company needs?

September 3, 2015

Samsung is pushing against the Apple Watch’s growing dominance in wearables, with its new Gear watch. The Korean tech giant has unveiled its Galaxy Gear S2 watch – and it looks pretty slick. Metallic and sleek (just 11.4mm thick), the smartwatch has a 1.2 inch round display, and features a rotating bezel and 3G voice [...]
The Walkie Talkie is a glorious building and the Carbuncle Cup jury are just architectural snobs

September 3, 2015

Most of the critics of Rafael Viñoly's “Walkie Talkie” at 20 Fenchurch Street are other architects or professional moaners. Laypeople, like the City workers milling around the building at lunchtime, are more amenable. As if to prove my point, Sir Simon Jenkins, a vocal and consistent critic of, well, just about anything built since bricks [...]
Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram: What does your favourite social network say about you?

September 3, 2015

Linkedin lover or addicted to Twitter? What social network you spend most of your time on reveals more than you might think about your gender, age and even social grade. Polling institute Ipsos Mori has released its latest quarterly Tech Tracker, which analyses how Britons access the internet (short answer: everywhere and a lot). Alongside [...]
Overcrowding and smelly people: These are Londoners’ biggest commuting complaints

September 2, 2015

Rush hour traffic. Getting your face crammed into someone’s sweaty pits. Delays (or strikes…). Screaming toddlers. The list of our commuting woes could go on, but let’s stop there for the sake of everyone’s blood pressure. Londoners spend 18 months of their lives commuting. Our daily journey to and from the office is a necessary [...]
WH Smith IT glitch shares users’ private data in mass emails

September 2, 2015

WH Smith has sent users' private data out in mass emails to other customers following an IT glitch. The source of the breach seems to be a poorly constructed contact form on the retailer’s website. When a customer fills out the form, instead of sending the message to the company itself, the information was sent [...]
Windows 10 is already outselling Mac OS X and Windows Vista, as Microsoft says its new operating system is growing at “unprecedented” rate

September 2, 2015

Microsoft can breathe a sigh of relief: after the unpopularity of Windows 8, the newly-released operating system Windows 10 is growing at an unprecedented rate. After one month on the market, figures released today show the system already has over five per cent of the PC market, making it the fourth biggest operating system in [...]
London commuters spend £1,900 on treats for their commute – twice the UK average

September 2, 2015

Whether you’re just grabbing a quick takeaway coffee on your way to the office or stocking up on crisps to avoid crashing on your evening commute, those little purchases tend to add up. Londoners spend a whopping £1,900 every year on those little “must-have” items and other treats for their commute, new data from American [...]
Amazon to open tenth UK fulfilment centre in Doncaster

September 2, 2015

Amazon is creating over 300 new jobs as the internet retailer plans to open its tenth fulfilment centre in the UK this autumn. The company has chosen Doncaster as the location for its new 250,000 sq ft warehouse, which will be the second fulfilment centre in the city, as a first one opened in 2010. [...]

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