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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Post-it maker 3M to cut 1,500 jobs on falling sales

October 22, 2015

3M is cutting 1,500 jobs, as drooping sales have forced the US manufacturing giant to slash its profit forecast for the year. Jobs will be lost across US, Europe and Latin America for the manufacturer, which counts Scotch Tape and Post-it Notes among its many products. The company reported sales tumbling 5.2 per cent in [...]
Best practice for IT security: How to build a company that’s secure from the inside out against cyber attacks

October 22, 2015

Not a day goes by without data leaks, hacked email accounts or compromised corporate networks hitting the headlines. The topic has become the new front line for businesses – a battleground between malicious hackers and security experts that shows little sign of stagnation. Businesses are investing billions every year defending against external attacks and protecting [...]
London Tube strike 2015: This map shows how the strikes hit retail sales

October 22, 2015

This summer’s Tube strikes were a headache for more than just frazzled commuters: A new map shows it also changed our shopping pattern dramatically, striking hard against retailers in the city. Using figures on sales transactions made across 10,000 stores across the capital, Applied Predictive Technologies has analysed the effect of the August Tube strike [...]
Driverless technology: London’s existing drivers must be central to the solution

October 22, 2015

London is commonly considered the UK’s test bed for technology and innovation. As a hub for digital technology, it comes as no surprise that driverless cars, the most controversial motor innovation of recent times, would be trialled in the capital to show its potential for the rest of the country. Last year, Kabbee hosted an industry-first roundtable to [...]
Black Friday 2015 UK deals: What retailers can expect from the biggest shopping day of the year

October 22, 2015

Black Friday is now big news in the UK. Last year according to Barclaycard, more was spent on Black Friday than on any day of last year’s shopping season, making it the biggest spending day on record. Black Friday this year is likely to herald a similar frenzy and signals a change in customer shopping [...]
Best and worst UK online shops: EE has the worst website, but AO.com and Liz Earle top ranking

October 22, 2015

EE has been named the worst online shop in the UK by consumer watchdog Which?. Slammed by confused customers for a website that was difficult to navigate and lacking necessary information, the telecoms giant scored just 58 out of 100 in a Which? ranking of the best and worst online stores. Most of us prefer to do [...]
Reports of the high street’s death are greatly exaggerated

October 21, 2015

Reports of the high street’s death are greatly exaggerated. At least in London. Forget e-commerce or retail parks: When it comes to what we like best, a majority of Britons still rate the high street best, as a new study has found that Londoners visit our high streets 97 times per year. This is quite [...]
Boris Johnson is going to boost internet connectivity across London with help from the Cheesegrater and the Walkie Talkie

October 21, 2015

Sick of bad internet connections? You’re not the only one – but things could be about to change. The much-maligned Walkie Talkie building is about to live up to its name in more ways than one, as it becomes one of the buildings signed up boost internet connectivity in London. To improve connectivity across the [...]
EE’s Olaf Swantee: The BT merger is “good for Britain”

October 21, 2015

EE is “very confident” that the £12.5bn deal with BT will be approved, as a competition watchdog’s decision on the takeover draws near. Olaf Swantee, the telecoms company’s chief executive, said to City A.M. that the merger would be “good for Britain”, following the company’s third quarter results posted on Wednesday: We’re excited about creating [...]
Eviction notice: Rising rents could topple London’s thriving tech industry

October 20, 2015

If nothing is done to tackle the capital’s surging property prices, the future looks bleak for London’s small businesses. Today’s Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) “London Manifesto” revealed that over half of the 7,000 London-based small businesses it surveyed said that business property costs require urgent reform. This comes as no surprise, seeing as firms [...]

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