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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TalkTalk share price soars as internal investigation shows hack affected “significantly” fewer customers than originally thought

October 30, 2015

The number of people affected by the TalkTalk hack unveiled last Thursday is “significantly less” than originally suspected, the company said today. Hoping to reassure worried customers, TalkTalk has released official figures based on an internal investigation showing how many people had their data accessed, revealing that some 20,000 bank account numbers and 28,000 partially [...]
Black Friday 2015 UK online shopping and E-commerce sales set to double – but payday could delay the peak until Cyber Monday

October 30, 2015

With less than a month to go until the shopping frenzy of Black Friday, new research suggests retailers could expect spending to double this year – but payday could be delaying our shopping until Cyber Monday. E-commerce is set to soar against last year, according to PCA Predict. Co-founder Jamie Turner said that online sales [...]
Black Friday UK 2015: E-commerce sales set to double – but payday could delay the peak until Cyber Monday

October 30, 2015

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In search of a new Safe Harbour: The EU’s push for new data transfer regulation with the US may be part of the problem

October 30, 2015

Aftershocks are continuing to come following the European Court’s ground-breaking ruling on 6 October outlawing the “safe harbour” arrangements. The ruling isn’t just worrying for Silicon Valley giants, such as Facebook and Google, who rely on Safe Harbor to transfer their EU users’ data, but also for global businesses that manage employee data in the [...]
Halloween map reveals London’s most haunted Tube stations from King’s Cross and Liverpool Street to Bank and Elephant & Castle

October 30, 2015

You might usually worry more about delays and crowded rush hour Tubes on your commute than encountering a ghost. But if you’re the impressionable type, this spooky map might just change all that. On the eve of Halloween, this map created by Brilliantly British reveals the London Underground’s most horrifying ghost stories. The map includes [...]
AB InBev share price rises on soaring Mexican sales ahead of SABMiller megabrew deal

October 30, 2015

Sales are soaring for the world’s largest beer brewer, thanks largely to a booming Mexican beer market. The figures AB InBev reported that normalised earnings, before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation rose by 9.6 per cent in the third quarter to $4.4bn, against the same period last year. Earnings per share were down to $1.02 [...]
Lord Davies review: Female directors aren’t enough for boardroom diversity, we need female executives too

October 29, 2015

This morning, Lord Davies launched the final instalment of his five-year plan to address the issue of gender inequality in British boardrooms.Proudly proclaiming the end of all-male FTSE boards, with firms all meeting the voluntary target of 25 per cent female board members, Lord Davies now argues that the original target should be replaced. The [...]
In a 24/7 digital world, information is power: Businesses who can’t harness it will fall behind

October 29, 2015

From the paper on your desk, to customer records, legal documents, transactional data, product information and even social media, whether digitally archived or stored physically, information is the lifeblood of an organisation. This vital information is an asset that simply isn’t being utilised, the impact of which is felt right up to the board room. [...]
Blythe Masters’ Digital Asset Holdings just bought blockchain start-up Blockstack.io

October 29, 2015

Blythe Masters’ Digital Asset Holdings just bought a blockchain start-up. The company announced it would be buying Blockstack.io, a cloud-based blockchain system that offers "blockchain-as-a-service" for financial players. Masters, the former JPMorgan Chase executive, confirmed the takeover today: Blockstack’s solutions will enhance the existing Digital Asset technology stack and Miron, a renowned pioneer in the [...]
Leon founder Henry Dimbleby launches £3.5m crowdfunding bid to create “world-class street food market” in London backed by Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver

October 29, 2015

Could London be getting a world-class street food market? Henry Dimbleby, founder of natural fast-food restaurants Leon, and Street Feast’s Jonathan Downey are betting on it. Through London Union, Street Feast’s parent company, the pair is launching a crowdfunding bid hoping to raise £3.5m – enough money to create not just 12 local markets, but [...]

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