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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Stratolaunch: The world’s largest plane is about to take flight with test flights planned for 2016

August 4, 2015

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has unveiled his latest project: the Stratolaunch, a gigantic plane built around two 747s. According to Allen, construction began on the giant plane in 2011, and it's now nearing testing stage, with the first test flights planned for 2016. Dwarfing even the Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger plane, Stratolaunch looks [...]
London is the world’s favourite tourist destination – but where are international tourists coming from? France and USA top the list as tourists figures surge to new record high

August 4, 2015

Tourists love London. It’s the most popular tourist destination in the world – and visitor numbers are surging: over 17m international tourists were welcomed to London last year, according to data from Visit Britain. But where did the hordes of tourists come from? The biggest group of international visitors came, unsurprisingly, from France, just a [...]
George Osborne starts £2bn Royal Bank of Scotland sell-off

August 4, 2015

Chancellor George Osborne has kick started the government's first sale of shares in Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) today, a sale likely to raise £2bn for the government. UK Financial Investments (UKFI), the agency which holds the government's 79 per cent stake in RBS, announced its intention to sell about 600m shares, representing 5.2 per [...]
The Calais migrant crisis shows why Europe needs a common migration policy and a new asylum system

August 3, 2015

The ongoing crisis in Calais is a sad reminder that the EU is still far from finding a solution to its migration problems. It also shows how deep national divides have become in Europe. France blames Italy and Greece for failing to process asylum seekers arriving on its shores, opening the doors for them to [...]
FTSE 350 boardroom diversity is up as women made up four in ten new directors appointed last year

August 3, 2015

More women than ever are being appointed to UK boards, as four in 10 of new non-executive directors last year were female. The composition of boardrooms is changing dramatically, with the percentage of women joining boards quadrupling over the past seven years, from 11 per cent in 2007 to 39 per cent in 2014, shows [...]
Apple prepares a voicemail service that will transcribe your messages using Siri to compete with Microsoft’s Cortana and Google Now

August 3, 2015

The problem is obvious: Leaving voicemail is quick and convenient. Unfortunately, listening to it is sadly tedious. This age-old telephone dilemma has been solved, and the solution is ingeniously simple: transcribing incoming voicemail messages so that you can read them instead. Apple is preparing a new tool which will use voice assistant Siri to transcribe [...]
UK energy consumption falls below 1965 levels as industrial output declines and energy efficiency rises

August 3, 2015

The UK is the only country where total energy consumption is lower today than it was in 1965, according to newly released energy data from BP. Energy consumption has gone down by close to five per cent over the past 50 years – even as the economy has tripled in size and population. This makes [...]
US power sector hits back at Barack Obama’s tough climate change rules

August 3, 2015

President Barack Obama is set to present the US’ most ambitious climate change plans to date, but they come fiercely opposed by both his political rivals and the energy sector. The Obama administration will reveal state-specific details of the initiative, called the clean power plan, on Monday, but overall it will impose reductions of carbon [...]
Commodity prices hit corporate spending – global capex down at least 10per cent dragged by sliding energy and mining sector

August 3, 2015

The long slide of commodities prices is taking its toll on corporate spending, it seems: global expenditure is predicted to shrink by at least 10 per cent this year, according to new research from rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P). Spending is expected to continue falling well into next year, according to S&P’s forecast, before [...]
Why the London Stock Exchange’s digital infrastructure needs a backup – in Leeds

August 3, 2015

We all have to prepare for the unexpected, with a Plan B to fall back on, and this isn’t just true for day-to-day life. It applies to the business world as well. With that in mind, it’s worrying that the UK’s trading systems can be so exposed. Most of the global connectivity into UK trading [...]

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