Signal down: Messaging app stops working after surge in new users January 15, 2021 Messaging app Signal has stopped working in the wake of a huge surge in new users. The social media platform, which bills itself as a more privacy-focused alternative to the incumbent tech giants, suffered glitches this afternoon that prevented messages from sending. There was a spike in users reporting problems with connection and logging in [...]
Screenshot: Is social media heading for a new era of privacy? January 15, 2021 A weekly column from City A.M. bringing you all the biggest stories and trends in technology, media and telecoms This week **Media Moment of the Week: CNN’s crowbar correction **Whatsapp’s privacy exodus **Music touring: A victim of Brexit? Media Moment of the Week Given the extent of the carnage at the Capitol last week, reporters [...]
Britishvolt: The batterymaker leading the charge towards the 2030 diesel car ban January 14, 2021 2020 was a dire year for the UK car industry, but buried amid the reports of tumbling vehicle sales was one piece of promising news. For the first time ever, sales of electric vehicles comprised 10 per cent of all new car sales, figures from auto body the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) [...]
Elon Musk overtakes Jeff Bezos to become world’s richest person January 7, 2021 Tesla's share price has driven Elon Musk's net worth even higher to topple Amazon boss Jeff Bezos from the top spot of world's richest person
Tesla sets vehicle delivery record but falls just short of Musk’s target January 3, 2021 Tesla set a fresh record for vehicle delivery numbers in 2020, but narrowly missed out on hitting boss Elon Musk’s target. The electric car maker delivered 499,950 vehicles during the year, well above Wall Street expectations of 481,261 vehicles. However, the figure was 450 vehicles shy of Musk’s target of half a million. In a [...]
The year in charts: From the FTSE to Zoom’s share price December 31, 2020 2020 has been quite the ride. So, to cap it off, we worked with our friends at Flourish to look at *quite* how wild it was… Global stock markets have had an odd year – from optimism to collapse to guarded positivity for the future. Here’s how the FTSE 100 fared. Currency markets were all [...]
Lockdown board games: Forget Monopoly, here are the real games December 30, 2020 For decades board games lived largely unloved lives, their battered boxes pulled off dusty shelves on rainy days and holidays. But as we approach essentially another national lockdown, many of us will be dusting them off once more. Back in their heyday, board games were designed to be simple, with concepts that could appeal equally [...]
Musk claims Apple once snubbed talks to buy Tesla December 23, 2020 Elon Musk has claimed Apple chief executive Tim Cook snubbed talks to buy Tesla back in 2017, when it was going through its “darkest days”. The tech billionaire said he reached out to the iPhone manufacturer in 2017, but CEO Tim Cook refused to take the meeting. Yesterday Musk tweeted: “During the darkest days of [...]
To the Moon: The ‘fintel’ going after the TikTok generation December 22, 2020 Almost every startup has at some stage dubbed themselves a disruptor. The Monzo or Revolut of their respective industries. It has become a tired cliche in the startup world but a new London-based startup is laying claim to being not only a disruptor but forging a new industry in itself. To the Moon claims to [...]
Tesla shares jump to record high ahead of S&P 500 debut December 19, 2020 Tesla shares rose to a record high on Friday as investors geared up for the electric carmaker’s anticipated entrance into the S&P 500 index. The company, headed up by billionaire Elon Musk, will become the most valuable ever admitted to Wall Street’s main market on Monday, accounting for more than 1 per cent of the [...]