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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American soldiers disarm gunman who opened fire with a Kalashnikov on express train in France

August 22, 2015

A gunman armed with a Kalashnikov opened fire on a express train in France before being overpowered by three Americans. In what’s been described as a “heroic” intervention, three men stopped the heavily armed gunman when he opened fire on a train travelling from Amsterdam to Paris at 6pm on Friday evening. The man reportedly [...]
Oil prices: US crude WTI crashes below $40 for first time in six years

August 22, 2015

US oil tumbled to its lowest level in six years, crashing through its $40 floor on deepening worries over China’s slowdown. The US benchmark West Texas Intermediate fell as low as $39.86 a barrel, before recovering slightly to close at $40.45, representing a drop of over two per cent in a day. The plunge comes [...]
Britons are more worried about immigration than ever before

August 21, 2015

Britons are more worried about immigration than ever before, as the migrant crisis in Calais continues to worsen. Immigration and the state of the NHS are the two political issues that UK adults worry most about, according to new figures from Ipsos Mori released today. Half of those polled replied that immigration was one of [...]
Facebook, Twitter and other social media is changing the way we communicate during natural disasters

August 21, 2015

Where do you first hear news of a disaster? These days, it’s likely to be through a Facebook post or a tweet. Facebook and Twitter have become such a central part of our lives that the platforms are actually changing the way we react to natural disasters, according to a study published in the International [...]
Uber IPO? Leaked reports suggest Uber plans to go public within two years

August 21, 2015

Ride-hailing app Uber could become a public company by early 2017, according to a leaked document intended for investors, reports news agency Reuters. A confidential document outlining a presentation intended for potential investors in the company’s Chinese arm UberChina revealed that the parent company is forecast to go public within 18-24 months. Speculation about the [...]
UK fights back at the Streisand Effect, orders Google to remove links to “right to be forgotten” stories

August 21, 2015

How do you get the internet to forget something? Over a year after the EU’s “right to be forgotten” ruling against Google, there’s still a dilemma left unsolved, which the UK has now taken steps to tackle. The Information Commissioner’s office (ICO) has ordered the search giant to remove links to news stories about the [...]
Google spins off life sciences to become own company under Alphabet with Andy Conrad as chief exec

August 21, 2015

Google’s life sciences team is about to become a standalone company. Formerly part of the tech giant’s secretive research organisation Google X, the company has now confirmed speculation that it’s to be spun off into a company of its own under Alphabet. Co-founder Sergey Brin wrote in a blog post today that the goal would [...]
How do you use social media? One in three use WhatsApp, Snapchat and other mobile messaging apps

August 21, 2015

One in three smartphone owners use messaging apps like WhatsApp, according to a new social media study released today. Among young people, this shoots up further to one in two. In Pew Research Center’s latest report, the institute has broken out messaging apps for the first time, asking about them as something separate from texting [...]
Uber safety: “Lax” background checks slammed as convicted criminals allowed to become drivers

August 20, 2015

Background checks by taxi-hailing app Uber have come under fire, after California prosecutors slammed it for security routines so lax that convicted sex offenders and even murderers were allegedly allowed to become drivers. California prosecutors are widening a civil lawsuit they originally brought against Uber in December last year, alleging that the company misleads customers [...]
Have we hit peak smartphone? Global growth hits two-year low as China’s sales decline for first time ever

August 20, 2015

Is Peak Smartphone upon us? Drooping sales in China have caused smartphone sales to hit the brakes with the slowest growth rate since 2013, according to Gartner’s latest report, released today. In China, the world’s largest market, sales have fallen for the first time ever, with a four per cent decline year on year. Anshul [...]

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