By: Billy Ehrenberg

Billy Ehrenberg is a Data Journalist and Content Developer at City A.M. He can be contacted at billy.ehrenberg@cityam.com. He is particularly passionate about data visualisation and telling stories with numbers.

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Apple just lost $533m in a patent case

February 25, 2015

Apple has lost a case worth $533m (£343m) after a Texas jury found its iTunes and App stores had infringed patents. The tech-giant was battling Smartflash, an American company founded in 2000. Smartflash claimed that Apple wilfully infringed its patents, and did not respect its inventions. Apple disagreed, claiming the claims excessive and the patents [...]
Fabio Cannavaro tax evasion case: World Cup winner sentenced to 10 months in prison for swimming in his pool

February 25, 2015

Despite an ongoing tax evasion case, it wasn’t incomplete tax returns that got Italian footballer Fabio Cannavaro sent to prison. It was a dip in a swimming pool. The former captain of Italy was banned from entering his property after it was seized by the Italian authorities as part of a tax-evasion investigation. FD Service, [...]
IAG approach for Aer Lingus turned down by Irish government

February 24, 2015

The Irish government has turned down a bid from the International Airlines Group (IAG) for Aer Lingus, saying it was not willing to sell its stake in the airline without further assurances. The government wants commitments on growth prospects and the safeguarding of jobs, before it considers selling its 25 per cent stake. Willie Welsh, [...]
HP suffers from a strong dollar: Earnings per share beat expectations but revenues fall

February 24, 2015

Hewlett Packard has beaten expectations with its first quarter results, with earnings per share above expectations by one cent at $0.92. Revenue, however, fell below analyst forecasts, coming in at $26.8bn, below $27.35bn expectations. The results came after the market's close, but stocks were reported down by as much as six per cent in after [...]
UK to send advisers to Ukraine – David Cameron

February 24, 2015

Britain is to send military advisers into Ukraine for the first time, the Prime Minister has confirmed. Speaking to before a committee of MPs, David Cameron said the UK would send personnel to the stricken country to support government troops battling separatists. Britain, Cameron said, would be the “strongest pole in the tent.” The Ministry [...]
Record-breaking FTSE: How have other benchmarks fared since the crisis?

February 24, 2015

The FTSE 100 broke its all-time highest close today, ending trading on 6,949.6. This is bullish news, showing there is strength in Britain’s largest companies, even as the global economy shows signs of sickness. How is the FTSE looking compared to other stock benchmarks? Not all that great, as it turns out. The first index to [...]
HSBC case: Osborne could include new tax rules in budget

February 23, 2015

New measures to tackle tax avoidance look set to be included in George Osborne’s budget next month in the wake of the HSBC tax case. As Osborne made his parliamentary response to the HSBC allegations he clashed with Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor. Balls accused Osborne of negligence, which moved Osborne to claim the government [...]
General Election 2015: Will the government raise the minimum wage?

February 23, 2015

Minimum wage in the UK should rise by 20p to £6.70 an hour, according to the Low Pay Commission. The rise, the commission says, should take place in October, and would mean a pay rise for 1.2m workers. If the government decides to implement the rise, which it may do in next month’s budget, it [...]
Google buys Softcard to take on Apple Pay

February 23, 2015

Google has signed a partnership with Softcard to buy some of its payment solutions software. In a deft move, the search giant has also struck a bargain with several of the US’s biggest mobile carriers, which will see Google Wallet app pre-installed on thousands of handsets. Apple arrived at the near-field-communications party with Apple [...]
As the FTSE closes in on 7,000, could Nasdaq beat it to the punch?

February 23, 2015

The FTSE has been threatening to break 7000 points for a while, but could be beaten to the punch. The Nasdaq is closing in on its own fairly arbitrary target of 5,000, with both numbers close to the indexes' record rates. The Nasdaq now sits on 4,953.8, just 0.9 per cent below 5,000 and close [...]

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