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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Rise of mobile ad blockers has advertising industry worried

October 8, 2015

Digital advertising is the industry’s fastest growth area, but it’s threatened by a rapid rise of ad blockers that has industry experts worried. The advertising industry is struggling to handle new options for users to filter out unwanted content online, and publishers have just been dealt a hard blow, as Apple has approved the first-ever [...]
Bad customer experience is costing mobile operators £1.6bn

October 7, 2015

Bad customer experience is costing UK mobile operators as much as £1.6bn, as nearly half of Britons have suffered a bad experience with their phone company. If you’ve ever been spitting mad at your phone company, you’re far from alone. Some one in 10 Britons have had a customer experience bad enough it made them [...]
Why mobile ad blocking is good for the advertising industry

October 7, 2015

Over the last few weeks it has been impossible to read any trade publications without encountering an article on ad blockers. With the introduction of iOS 9 last month, mobile ad blocking risks rising, as users receive the opportunity to opt out of advertising. Rather than descend into a blind panic about ad blockers and [...]
Wind power now the cheapest electricity to produce in the UK as the price of renewable energy continues to drop

October 7, 2015

Onshore wind power is now cheaper to produce than fossil fuels in the UK and Germany – the first time this has been recorded in a G7 economy. The cost of wind power has been dropping rapidly in recent years, and the transition is now complete as the renewable has become more cost-efficient than fossil [...]
Eight oil giants to work together on cleaner energy

October 7, 2015

Oil companies are collaborating on developing cleaner energy ahead of the Paris climate summit in December. The companies are hoping to improve their individual efforts by joining forces on R&D into cleaner power, particularly into developing carbon capture and storage, the Financial Times reports. Patrick Pouyanne, chief executive of French energy company Total, said at the [...]
Benefit corporations are the new CSR – and will make stories like the Volkswagen emissions scandal unthinkable relics of a world long gone

October 7, 2015

Business is changing. In today’s hyper-connected world, where any organisation is only ever a few clicks away from a media storm, complete transparency and trust is key. The Volkswagen scandal was a recent reminder of that. Today’s consumers are more educated, aware and responsible than ever before. We are more informed about the products we [...]
Google’s Alphabet is free to be evil as the company ditches “don’t be evil” motto

October 6, 2015

Google’s parent company is finally free to be evil. When Google became Alphabet, it rather ominously decided to leave its motto “don’t be evil” behind. And while Google employees still have to promise not to be evil. But that code of conduct doesn’t apply to its new parent company, after Google’s transition to Alphabet was [...]
S&P takes rating actions on 14 oil companies – and Shell’s Ben van Beurden warns of oil prices “spiking”

October 6, 2015

Standard & Poor’s said today it had taken rating actions on 14 European oil and gas companies, after revising its oil price forecast down. Oil producers are braced for a long slump in prices, after the ratings agency recently revised its forecast to predict that prices will stay low through the end of 2016. We [...]
LinkedIn owes users $13m for sending too many annoying emails

October 5, 2015

“Hi, I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.” If you’ve ever signed up for LinkedIn, chances are you are more than familiar with the never-ending stream of emails coming from contacts. So many, in fact, and so annoying, that a US judge has ruled that LinkedIn must pay out compensation to [...]
First female president of Institute of Engineering and Technology Naomi Climer demands quotas to boost UK’s low number of female engineers

October 5, 2015

The first female president of the Institute of Engineering and Technology is calling for quotas to boost the UK’s flailing female engineers. Naomi Climer was appointed president of the IET last week, the first woman to hold the position in the institution’s 144-year-history. One of Climer’s first initiatives as president is now to demand quotas [...]

NBA Europe talks at an impasse, adding uncertainty to bidding process

NBA Europe talks at an impasse, adding uncertainty to bidding process

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