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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Windows 10 launch: New users love Cortana and Edge – but hate the Office suite

August 10, 2015

Windows 10 has been on the market for a week and a half – and the verdict is already in for the latest incarnation of Microsoft’s operating system, as social media analytics firm Brandwatch has analysed what users are tweeting about it. Microsoft has reason for optimism, as haters are outnumbered by fans. Every day, [...]
Precision Castparts share price leaps as Warren Buffett makes Berkshire Hathaway’s biggest ever acquisition with $37.2bn swoop

August 10, 2015

Shares in aerospace manufacturer Precision Castparts Corp (PCC) jumped 19.5 per cent after Warren Buffett confirmed his company, Berkshire Hathaway, will buy it for $37.2bn (£24bn) – the investor's biggest deal ever. In a statement today, Buffett said he had "admired PCC's operation for a long time". "It is the supplier of choice for the world’s [...]
These five charts show how Berkeley Group’s Tony Pidgley’s £23.2m salary compares to Wayne Rooney, Martin Sorrell – and you

August 10, 2015

Tony Pidgley, founder and boss of Berkeley Group, got a £23.2m payout as the UK housebuilder’s profits soared. A total of £42m in bonuses were paid out to five top executives at Berkeley last year, to kick off payouts totalling up to £500m in the next six years, following a 42 per cent surge in [...]
New York City’s “responsible banking” law ruled unconstitutional after lawsuit from Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan

August 10, 2015

Is New York City’s notoriously tough line on banks after the crisis about to loosen up? The city’s Responsible Banking Act has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge, reports news agency Reuters. The law demanded that banks provide documentation for an advisory board to review how well they met the needs of low- and [...]
Gene-editing startup Editas just raised $120m from Bill Gates, Google Ventures and 12 other investors

August 10, 2015

A gene-editing startup has just raised $120m to learn more about replacing faulty genes, gaining support from Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates and 13 other investors. The startup Editas Medicine want to tackle grave illnesses by removing our defective genes, and plan to use the recently raised capital to study a new technology that could finally [...]
E-commerce giant Alibaba invests £2.97bn in Suning as global mergers and acquisitions hit new high

August 10, 2015

Alibaba’s announcement it would be investing £2.97bn in a 20 per cent stake in retail giant Suning marks the Chinese e-commerce giant’s biggest acquisition ever. The global deal bonanza continues upwards. With global M&A recently hitting a post-downturn high, Alibaba’s record deal came just hours after Warren Buffett confirmed a record $37bn deal as his [...]
Rapid growth of ad blocking is costing the ad industry £14bn in lost ad revenue 2015 alone

August 10, 2015

It seems we’ve had it up to here with internet advertising – and it’s costing the industry billions in lost ad revenue. Ad block usage is shooting up in the UK, growing by 82 per cent in the last year alone, outstripping an already very strong global growth as ad blockers are up globally by [...]
London startups grow by 21pc – fuelled by a booming tech industry

August 10, 2015

London’s startup scene is booming as the number of new ventures launched increased by nearly a quarter in just a year, shows data from Companies House. Startups increased by 21 per cent in just a year, according to Instant Offices, which compared how many businesses registered with Companies House last year with the year before [...]
Facebook hack: Security flaw allows hackers to harvest personal data using only a phone number

August 9, 2015

Facebook has come under fire for lax user data security, as a software engineer was able to extract personal information about thousands of users from the social media company. With thousands of users’ names, photos, location settings and phone numbers leaking out through a security loophole, Facebook has been called upon to tighten its privacy [...]
WalkCar: This Japanese transporter is the size of your laptop and rivals Segways and hoverboards

August 9, 2015

It’s 2015, and yet the hoverboards promised to us by Marty McFly have yet to materialise. But if you’ve been dreaming of something similar hitting the market, you may like this futuristic skateboard from a Japanese inventor. 26 year-old engineer Kuniako Saito has developed WalkCar, a portable transporter that he says is the world’s first [...]

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