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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Amazon Web Services opens first startup support centre outside US in London’s Silicon Roundabout

August 20, 2015

If you were looking for more evidence that Tech City is booming: Amazon has just announced it will open its first startup support centre outside the US – and is basing it in London’s Silicon Roundabout. Competition between cloud-based infrastructure providers has heated up recently, with Alibaba, Microsoft and Google all reporting rapid growth in [...]
Students are more right-wing than the general public on key economic matters like tax rates, nationalisation and redistribution

August 20, 2015

Students may have a reputation for being a bunch of radical left-wing activists, but it turns out when it comes to economic issues, they’re actually more right-wing than the general public. From anti-apartheid sit-ins to tuition fee protests, students sure do like to get involved in politics. But don’t be surprised if the next time [...]
Denmark scales back climate goals that are proving “too expensive” for businesses

August 20, 2015

Denmark is scaling back its green ambitions, after the country’s government said the previous target was “too expensive for businesses”. In a goal set by the country’s previous government, Denmark had promised to reduce its carbon emissions at least 40 per cent by 2020, against 1990 levels. This is proving too expensive though, so the [...]
UK jobs market: People would rather be unemployed than work on a zero hours contract

August 20, 2015

People would rather be unemployed than on a zero hours contract, according to a new study that shows half of those who’ve been offered the controversial contract turned it down, opting instead for continued unemployment. Zero hours contracts, which guarantee no set hours, have skyrocketed in recent years, but despite 700,000 people in the UK [...]
Oil prices set for long-term slump as WTI price forecast lowered through 2016

August 19, 2015

Oil companies should brace themselves: the black stuff's slump is set to be long-term, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), which just lowered its oil price forecast through to the end of next year. Although prices rallied briefly yesterday on bullish US economic data, the EIA thinks this recovery is unlikely to last. [...]
Your co-workers secretly think you’re bad at your job: 66 per cent of office workers wonder how colleagues got their job

August 19, 2015

Got any dozy colleagues you like to moan about? Watch out, odds are they may be thinking the same of you, according to new research suggesting that two in three office workers think their co-workers are bad at their job. Some 66 per cent of office workers quietly wonder just how their colleagues got their [...]
Hackers expose details of 37m users of cheating website Ashley Madison

August 19, 2015

Hackers appear to have followed through on their threat to expose the details of millions of users of the extramarital affair site Ashley Madison, which is soon to embark on a multimillion-pound float in London. Almost 10 gigabytes of user data were posted to the “dark web” overnight, according to reports, and have since been [...]
We need the facts on fracking to make responsible decisions about UK energy

August 18, 2015

Today the Government announced that it will award 27 new exploration licences, opening up 1,000 square miles of the UK as potential sites for shale gas extraction. With thousands more people faced with the possibility of having it on their doorstep, the debate on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been well and truly renewed. Proponents [...]
UK tech sector growth falls to two-year low, dragged by election jitters and Eurozone woes

August 18, 2015

The UK’s tech sector growth fell to a two-year low, with activity slowing in the second quarter dragged by election jitters and Eurozone woes. Tech has been booming lately, and the latest figures mark three years of sustained business activity growth in the sector. But expansion is at its weakest pace since early 2013, according [...]
New peer-to-peer payment app Square Cash lets you transfer money to your friends using Apple Watch

August 18, 2015

Next time you’re splitting a restaurant bill or paying your mate back for a shared Uber ride, there’s no need to reach for your wallet to pay anything. Or even reach for your phone, for that matter. You can now send your friends money directly from your wrist, as new peer-to-peer payment app Square Cash [...]

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