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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Spam email levels at 12-year low as real emails outnumber them for first time since 2003

July 17, 2015

Good news on the email front: For the first time in twelve years, less than half of emails are spam. Real emails are outnumbering junk for the first time since 2003, writes security company Symantec in its monthly intelligence report. It remains a pretty close call, though, as spam still makes up 49.7 per cent [...]
IBM’s supercomputer Watson can check and correct the tone of your writing

July 17, 2015

Worried about how you’re coming across in emails? There’s an app for that (sort of). IBM’s Watson now has a feature that can critique the tone of your messages. Think of it as a tone check rather than a spell check, if you will. IBM engineer Rama Akkiraju writes: To read a message and to [...]
UK patent applications dropping as Sweden files 3.5 times more patents than the UK

July 17, 2015

Bad news: the UK’s attitude to intellectual property remains dismissive, as new figures show that the number of patents filed were not just below the EU average, but actually falling. In absolute numbers, by far most patent applications come from Germany. With 22,800 filed, the country had over 40 per cent of all European applications. [...]
Government spending on science rises for first time since 2009

July 17, 2015

The UK’s spending on science is up for the first time in four years, as new figures showed government expenditure on science, engineering and technology landing on £10.9bn. Spending in these areas went up by nine per cent in 2013, new figures released by the Office for National Statistics today showed. Allowing for inflation, this [...]
Iran nuclear deal: After the nuclear deal, Iran is our “frenemy”

July 17, 2015

Tuesday’s agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme is a momentous achievement, but only if it can be enforced and verified. Following the diplomatic deal in Vienna, Western governments should engage with Tehran, but also help to contain Iran’s growing influence in the region. While Tehran celebrates the upcoming removal of international sanctions, its neighbours are anxious; [...]
Surge in Airbnb for business trips as travellers prefer flat rentals to hotels

July 17, 2015

Do business travellers prefer Airbnb? The flat rental site has become a popular lodging option for cheap getaways – but now it seems Airbnb is on the rise for business trips as well. Rather than using it to source wacky budget holidays – whether you fancy an Alaskan cabin in the woods or a Mongolian [...]
MacRobert Award 2015: British company Artemis Intelligent Power wins prestigious engineering award for digital hydraulics system

July 17, 2015

A British company that has developed a way of cutting fuel consumption and transforming offshore wind has won the MacRobert Award, the UK’s most prestigious engineering award. Scottish firm Artemis Intelligent Power was presented with The Royal Academy of Engineering’s award late last night, for its novel digital hydraulic power system Three British companies were [...]
Gender pay gap: About time to name and shame businesses who don’t promote women

July 16, 2015

News that UK firms will be required to publish gender pay audits is to be applauded. Gender diversity in the workplace has been ignored for too long by UK companies and it’s about time businesses that fail to employ, support and promote women are named and shamed. Why am I so passionate about this topic? [...]
Ebay revenue up seven per cent as PayPal spinoff draws near

July 16, 2015

The figures Revenues at e-commerce giant Ebay jumped seven per cent to $4.38bn (£2.8bn) in the three months to the end of June , according to a report released today. The company’s net income fell to $83m, or seven cents per share in the second quarter, from $676m in 2014. Ebay has announced an additional $1bn [...]
TfL Tube strike 2015: Days lost to strike action have doubled since 2013 – but are still way down over past 30 years

July 16, 2015

Nearly 800,000 working days were lost over strike disputes last year, a sharp increase on the previous year – but it was still nothing, compared with the 1970s. Just a week after unions left London at a standstill with a 24-hour tube strike over working conditions on the upcoming Night Tube, the Office for National [...]

Fifa World Cup under major threat of cyber terrorism

Fifa World Cup under major threat of cyber terrorism

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