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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Researchers discover a way to “switch off” diseased cancer cells

August 26, 2015

US scientists have managed to “switch off” cancer cells, programming them back to normal cells in a breakthrough they hope may lead to reversing tumour growth. A team of researchers from Mayo Clinic in Florida managed to stop cancerous cells’ abnormal growth rate, retraining them to stop reproducing and die off like a regular cell [...]
US executive pay dwarfs UK best-paid bosses pay checks: These CEOs are paid 200 times as much as their employees

August 25, 2015

American bosses earn 204 times more than their workers – blowing British pay gaps out of the water. The best-paid FTSE 100 chief is WPP’s Martin Sorrell, but despite taking home 800 times more than his employees, his £29.8m pay check last year doesn’t even come close to the US record high. David Zaslav, chief [...]
Russia u-turn: Unbans Wikipedia just hours after banning it

August 25, 2015

All of Wikipedia was briefly banned in Russia yesterday, ostensibly over the content on a cannabis page, but less than 24 hours after imposing the ban, Russian authorities did a u-turn. Most internet users in Russia never even had time to notice the ban, which had been widely criticised as yet another act of censorship [...]
The UK’s gender pay gap is not a moral issue, but a business one

August 25, 2015

A survey carried out by the Chartered Management Institute and the pay analysts XPertHR reported a 22 per cent gender pay gap at management level – with women earning far less than their male counterparts. This translates to women working effectively 57 days for free. This is unacceptable, but do the statistics really show a [...]
Alibaba’s cloud computing arm Aliyun launches “China’s first” artificial intelligence service

August 25, 2015

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s cloud computing arm is breaking into the artificial intelligence market, launching what the company is proclaiming to be “China’s first AI platform”, which will give developers the capacity to analyse large amounts of data. Cloud computing division Aliyun is Alibaba’s fastest-growing division, and although the company still gets most of its [...]
Transport for London introduces junction specially designed to keep cyclists safe at Cambridge Heath

August 25, 2015

London cyclists, rejoice. Cambridge Heath just got a junction designed specifically to keep cyclists from being hit by left-turning traffic, the first of several similar junctions planned for the busiest roads across the capital. At the junction, the first of its kind in the UK, cyclists and cars will turn separately. Cars planning to make [...]
Human capital rises: The Office for National Statistics knows how much you’re worth, looking at potential future earnings

August 25, 2015

Good news: We’ve become more valuable over the past year. This is according to the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) new human capital figures, which look at how our potential future earnings measure up. The average Briton of working age is now worth £448,358, putting the total value of the country’s human capital at £18.22 [...]
Sony unveils Aerosense drone: Watch the drone prototype take flight for the first time

August 25, 2015

The world has been given a first glimpse of Sony’s future drone completing a vertical take-off, as Sony’s Aerosense unveils a prototype that shows the company’s shift from consumer to enterprise tech. The drone looks cool, but this is no toy. Moving away from the consumer sphere, these plane-shaped drones are aimed at business use. [...]
Black Monday: Tech stocks nosedive with Netflix share price leading the plunge, and Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Google following

August 24, 2015

Tech stocks are taking a severe beating as US markets join today’s global stock market rout, with Netflix down over 11 per cent. The US’s tech-heavy Nasdaq index opened over four per cent down, following huge falls in both Asia and Europe amid investors’ fears that China’s slowing economy would lead a global slowdown. Media [...]
Twitter shuts down Politwoops, tool archiving tweets deleted by politicians

August 24, 2015

Politicians can breathe a sigh of relief: Twitter just shut down Politwoops, a tool bringing politicians’ deleted tweets to light. Politwoops pulled together deleted tweets for politicians from 30 countries around the world, but Twitter has now changed its API, suspending access for the tool. The site has been aiming to get rid of the [...]

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