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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Obama phones Putin, warns him to negotiate ahead of Minsk summit

February 11, 2015

US President Barack Obama has upped the rhetoric over Ukraine, using a phone call to tell Vladimir Putin to negotiate a peaceful settlement this week. The phone call came after Obama confirmed he had asked officials to look into supplying the Ukrainian government with weapons to fight the Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine. Putin is meeting [...]
Facebook is testing DeepFace, a face recognition program that is 97.5 per cent accurate

February 10, 2015

Facebook wants to increase revenue by encouraging engagement, so it has invented DeepFace, a feature with a sinister name and the ability to recognise and tag a face in a photo with an accuracy rate of 97.25 per cent. This isn’t taking place in a far-off future: DeepFace is now being trailed in the US [...]
Labour could lose half its Scottish seats, says new TNS poll

February 10, 2015

The Scottish National Party (SNP) could double its vote in the 2015 General Election, according to a poll from TNS. The news is a further blow to Scottish Labour, who, if the figures are representative, could see themselves on the wrong side of a 10-point deficit and facing the loss of half of its Scottish seats. [...]
UK holidaymakers could be fined for speeding overseas as EU looks set to get access to drivers’ records

February 10, 2015

There was a time when you could cross the French Riviera in a rented convertible and accidentally break the speed limit without the fear of a fine landing on your doormat. Not any more, though: tomorrow, the EU is expected to endorse measures allowing member states to access the records of drivers in the UK [...]
Labour paternity leave pledge: How does the UK compare to other OECD countries?

February 10, 2015

Ed Miliband is advocating an increase in paternity leave (Source: Getty) Labour leader Ed Miliband has promised that if his party gets into power this May, it will dramatically increase paternity leave and pay. New fathers will get four weeks off and £260 a week under the new proposals: double the time and £100 a [...]
TUI on course for profit growth after merger

February 10, 2015

The figures Tui Group has reported a 23.5 per cent jump in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation in its first quarter, and a 5.4 per cent jump in revenues – in line with expectations. Hotels and resorts performed particularly well during the period, it added. The newly formed entity, forged through a merger [...]
David Cameron at the British Chambers of Commerce conference: “Give Britain a pay rise”

February 10, 2015

"It is time Britain had a pay rise": that will be the message from David Cameron, as the Prime Minister addresses the British Chambers of Commerce conference today. In his speech, Cameron will say that in the current low-inflation, low-oil-price environment, businesses can afford to pay workers more – and that conditions "have not been this good [...]
Randgold increases dividend despite fall in profits, hints an acquisitions on the horizon

February 9, 2015

The figures Randgold Resources, the South African gold miner, suffered a 17 per cent drop in annual profits in the year to December, despite gold production for the year breaching the 1m ounces mark. The drop was mainly the result of a falling gold price, although the number of ounces sold also dropped by four [...]
HMRC faces HSBC tax evasion grilling in parliament after it is revealed Swiss arm helped clients hide millions

February 9, 2015

Tax bosses will be grilled by MPs on Wednesday over a swathe of leaked HSBC documents showing the bank's Swiss arm helped clients around the world dodge taxes. But HSBC's bosses will avoid a public hearing, because it is too close to the election to schedule new hearings. Margaret Hodge MP chairs the Public Accounts [...]
Poundland agrees conditional deal to buy 99p Stores for £55m

February 6, 2015

If you had £55m you could walk into Poundland and fill your boots. Or, you could do what Poundland is considering and buy the 99p Store. For that £55m, enough for 55,555,556 items from its rival, Poundland will get 99p Stores’ 251 branches, which together produce £370.4m in annual sales and serve around two million [...]

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