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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Finally, the world’s first reversible micro-USB cable is here, from startup MicFlip

August 12, 2015

Android users, you know the struggle: Trying to connect your phone to a charger in the dark, but always getting it wrong side up. Well, now you can wave goodbye to that first-world problem, as a company called MicFlip has designed the world’s first reversible micro-USB charger, meaning there is no more “right” or “wrong” [...]
Greek debt crisis: Alexis Tsipras calls emergency parliament session to vote on new bailout deal

August 12, 2015

Greece’s prime minister Alexis Tsipras has called an emergency session of parliament to vote on a new bailout deal after the cash-strapped country reached an agreement with its creditors earlier today. The multi-billion dollar bailout deal was agreed upon after another overnight set of talks starting Monday afternoon, and will help the country remain in [...]
Have Britons tired of the UK seaside? Visits to the coast down 20pc in 10 years

August 11, 2015

Sure, we do like to be beside the seaside – but is it losing its charm? We’re making fewer and fewer trips to the coast as seaside visits have dwindled by 20 per cent in just a decade. A National Trust study found that 58 per cent of Britons haven’t had a single day trip to [...]
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway risks downgrading by Standard & Poor’s after Precision Castparts deal

August 11, 2015

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway risks being downgraded by ratings agency Standard & Poor’s, after its record deal to buy aerospace manufacturer Precision Castparts. The acquisition worth $37.2bn has caused S&P to worry about Berkshire Hathaway’s cash resources, putting it on "CreditWatch Negative". The company is currently rated "AA", the third-highest of 10 possible ratings. Read [...]
Hackers charged for “unprecedented” case of insider trading by US authorities

August 11, 2015

Nine cyber criminals have been charged by US authorities for insider trading, accused of making $30m in illegal profits by trading on information from earnings reports before they were made public. What’s unusual about the case is that rather than using company insiders, hackers were used to extract the information, accessing the servers of Businesswire [...]
How Google is breaking the rules of corporate branding to get its Alphabet to pay off

August 11, 2015

Google’s creation of its Alphabet parent is a future-looking, ambitious strategy that few others would have the boldness to do. But it’s bold for a reason: creating new challenges for Alphabet to make it a real success. What Google is doing breaks the normal rules of corporate branding. Read more: Three things you should know [...]
Markets taken aback by China’s move to devalue the renmibi to boost flagging economic growth

August 11, 2015

Markets were taken aback by China’s move to devalue the renmibi nearly two per cent against the US dollar, to boost China’s flagging economic growth. Following weak trade and inflation data, central bank People’s Bank of China fixed its currency down 1.9 per cent, in a move which caused the Chinese currency’s biggest one-day drop [...]
How the UK’s population growth compares to the rest of the world – in four charts

August 11, 2015

We’ll be a snug 11.2bn inhabitants on the planet before the century is out, according to the UN’s latest population forecasts. But where are populations growing fastest – and how does the UK measure up? 1. Planet Earth is growing at twice the rate of the UK The world’s population growth has slowed, but not [...]
TfL Tube strike August 2015: Just one in five commuters back the strikers as two new strike dates announced

August 11, 2015

As RMT announced another two Tube strike dates, it seems the majority of Londoners are getting fed up with the conflict over the Night Tube disrupting their commute – although most of us don't like the idea of night-working ourselves. Only one in five back the strikers, showed a Yougov poll conducted over the latest [...]
Google share price jumps 5pc after shakeup leaving it part of “Alphabet” with Sundar Pichai taking over from Larry Page

August 11, 2015

“G is for Google.” But that’s about to change, as Google announced restructuring plans leaving the search giant as a subsidiary of new parent company Alphabet. The new company will function as a "collection of companies" with Google as the largest one. The idea behind the new organisation is to slim down Google, with Alphabet [...]

New York Knicks could be first publicly traded NBA team in 24 years

New York Knicks could be first publicly traded NBA team in 24 years

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