By: Joe Hall

I'm a sports and sports business journalist with City A.M. Follow me for coverage of the industry behind sports and the money made by top athletes. I've provided expert commentary on sports business for both TV and radio, including the BBC World Service. My email is always open to tips and story ideas: joe.hall@cityam.com

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Destiny gamers have spent collective 100,000 years playing most-expensive game of all time

December 23, 2014

Humanity has been walking and populating this earth for around 200,000 years. It has also spent roughly half that time playing Destiny, the video game released last September. According to the game’s developer Bungie, gamers have collectively spent over 872m hours ridding malignant aliens from the solar system in Destiny’s dense universe. That’s equal [...]
Camden Market owner Market Tech Holdings valued at £844m after first day of trading on Aim

December 22, 2014

Market Tech Holdings, the company that owns the iconic Camden Market, has a valuation of £844m after its first day of trading on the alternative investment market (Aim) of the New York Stock Exchange. Shares in the company which combines real estate assets with an e-commerce platform jumped by 12.5 per cent from their [...]
Hong Kong stock exchange chief exec Charles Li writes to Santa to lament loss of Alibaba IPO

December 22, 2014

Writing a letter to Santa: At primary school it’s expected, for early teens it’s understandable, for sixth formers it’s a little strange. But for the chief executive of one of the world’s biggest stock exchanges it’s downright bizarre and just a bit bonkers. Charles Li, chief executive of the Hong Kong stock exchange [...]
Taiwan could ban Uber for “illegal” operations

December 22, 2014

What do Spain, Thailand, Colombia, France and the Netherlands have in common? All have taken action against Uber services – including banning the taxi app outright – and Taiwan could be the latest to follow suit. Uber faces a possible ban in Taiwan after the country’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) revealed [...]
Should Arsenal and Chelsea fans be worried by Usmanov and Abramovich’s £803m loss?

December 19, 2014

It’s not often you find London football fans taking an interest in the Russian stock market. But such is the nature of modern football, that the fortunes of two billionaires' assets on the spiralling Russian stock market was reported in relation to the fortunes of two of the capital’s biggest clubs. As the [...]
How much will Sony lose by cancelling The Interview? Counting the cost of the cyber attack

December 18, 2014

“The holiday season”, as it’s referred to in the film industry, is supposed to be one of the most lucrative periods of the year for Hollywood studios. Yet for Sony Pictures, hopes for a bump in its Christmas stocking have been hit by the insidious cyber-attack which has pushed it to cancel the release [...]
American Apparel founder Dov Charney fired from clothing brand for good

December 17, 2014

American Apparel has finally said farewell to its founder and former chief executive Dov Charney, and appointed its first female chief executive in his place. The clothing brand first tried to push Charney out of the door back in June after an internal investigation found that his well-documented behavioural issues threatened to undermine the [...]
Russia, Tesco and Alex Salmond feature in the seven biggest losers of 2014

December 17, 2014

It’s Christmas. The time of year when we’re all supposed to be a little more caring, charitable and considerate of those not feeling so swell. But for every champagne toast to success, there is regret at the bottom of a bottle. So summon some of that Christmas spirit for this sorry lot, the seven [...]
The best player in Premier League history? The stats suggest Arsenal icon Thierry Henry

December 16, 2014

Did the Premier League’s greatest ever player retire from football today? Thierry Henry announced this morning that he would be hanging up his boots for a place in the Sky Sports studio, whose pundits he left lost for words on so many occasions during his Arsenal days. There was a jaw-dropping turn [...]
UK inflation falls to lowest rate since 2002 thanks to plumetting oil prices

December 16, 2014

UK inflation fell to its lowest rate since 2002 in November after petrol costs were cut due to plummeting oil prices. The rate of consumer price growth fell to one per cent last month, the lowest rate for 12 years and down from a 1.3 per cent rate in October. Any hopes investors [...]

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