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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Andrew Mitchell loses “plebgate” libel case

November 27, 2014

Andrew Mitchel probably did use the word “pleb”, according to the High Court judge presiding over the MP’s libel case. The Sun had claimed Mitchell called PC Toby Rowland a “pleb”. Mitchell denied this, taking News Group Newspapers, which owns the Sun, to court. Despite admitting to using profanities, Mitchell, who was the government's chief [...]
Has Opec just reached consensus on oil production?

November 27, 2014

Is there a whiff of consensus from Opec over oil prices? The markets seem to think so, with oil prices dropping on either side of the Atlantic. This could be because the consensus means that Opec will be siding with a group of countries – Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE and Qatar – not wanting to [...]
Candy Crush saga: King Digital chairman Melvyn Morris steps down

November 26, 2014

We still don’t know if there is life after Candy Crush. King Digital, the company behind the hugely successful mobile game, has said Melvyn Morris, its chairman, has stepped down. Not only was Morris chairman, but he is also the company’s second-largest shareholder, after Apax, a private equity firm. He will be replaced by board [...]
Scottish devolution: Holyrood to get control of tax rates and benefits

November 26, 2014

Scotland is to be able to set different tax rates to the rest of the UK after Labour dropped its opposition to the changes. The changes came with the reluctant blessing of Eds Miliband and Balls, although the latter is understood to have insisted that Westminster retain control of the personal allowance, the threshold below [...]
GoPro is going to start making drones

November 26, 2014

GoPro is to start manufacturing consumer drones, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The American company, which is already a market leader in personal cameras, markets its product as being able to take pictures in extreme situations. In many ways therefore the sky is the obvious next target for GoPro, especially as [...]
Ex-MI6 chief says criticism of Facebook over Lee Rigby murder is unjustified

November 26, 2014

Facebook has gained support from an unlikely source. Richard Barrett, the former global anti-terrorism director of MI6, has said that in his opinion it is unreasonable to expect Facebook to vet conversations for terrorist content and then report them. A report published this week said that an internet site, understood to be Facebook, had hosted [...]
Charted test

November 26, 2014
Is London the best city in the world for graduate jobs?

November 25, 2014

London is the third-best city in the world to be a student, according to research by QS. The same research reveals the capital to be the best university city for employer activity. To ascertain the best student city, QS compiles data on five key pillars: university rankings, student mix, quality of living, employer activity and [...]
Tesco director and former Food Standards Agency head Tim Smith lobbied government over report into dirty chicken – Guardian

November 25, 2014

Tim Smith, the Tesco technical director and former head of the Food Standards Agency (FSA), lobbied the government over a report into the food poisoning contamination rates for chicken in supermarkets, according to a report in the Guardian. The Guardian claims Smith told the Department of Health that publishing the results of the contamination tests [...]
Facebook responds to accusations it failed to inform police of plan to murder Lee Rigby

November 25, 2014

Facebook has responded to accusations it hosted conversations planning the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby. Although the site wasn't expressly named in the report, Facebooks is udnerstood to be the site involved. Michael Adebowale used Facebook to outline his plan to murder a soldier in a "graphic and emotive manner", according to the Intelligence and [...]

UK Sport: We invest £32m in winter sports because Britain cares deeply

Automatic promotion and relegation from Prem Rugby scrapped

Ministry of Sound: ‘industry is on the up’ as it reveals brand new take on The Box

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