Uber inks deal with Arrival to build electric car for its drivers May 4, 2021 Uber has this morning announced a partnership with UK start-up Arrival to build electric taxis designed for its ride-hailing drivers. The car, which will enter production in the first quarter of 2023, will be designed in partnership with the ride-hailing giant’s drivers. The partnership is part of Uber’s push to eliminate emissions from all 45,000 [...]
City Recovery Taskforce: innovation and creativity must be at the heart of Square Mile’s restoration May 4, 2021 As history shows, the City of London is nothing if not adaptable and this remarkableability to reinvent itself in response to economic and social trends lies at the heartof its success. Throughout the centuries, the resilience of the Square Mile has meantthat, whatever adversity it is hit with – great fires, plagues or wars – it has alwaysmanaged to [...]
Sadiq Khan pledges to explore 2036 London Olympics bid if re-elected May 3, 2021 Sadiq Khan has pledged to launch an “exploratory committee” to look at a potential 2036 or 2040 London Olympics bid if re-elected as London mayor on Thursday. Khan said this evening that if London was chosen to hold either of the games that he would want them to be “the most sustainable Olympic and Paralympic Games [...]
Saturday Sitdown: Uber UK boss Jamie Heywood on the recovery, workers’ rights and electric vehicles May 1, 2021 Jamie Heywood, Uber’s top man in the UK, Northern and Eastern Europe, has a spring in his step – at least, as much as you can see that on Zoom. Since the reopening of London’s bars and restaurants, with tables next to heaters prized like rare artefacts, Uber has seen rides spike upwards as Londoners [...]
Central line tube strike expected on polling day April 30, 2021 A 24-hour long Central line tube strike is expected to go ahead on 6 May, a date that coincides with polling day for London’s mayor elections. Central line train operators, Night Tube train operators and instructor operators at Leytonstone, Loughton, West Ruislip & White City Traincrew Depots will take strike action by not booking on [...]
Corona Impact Series: How the chronicle of a storyteller from Dalston turned into a virtual tale April 30, 2021 In this series, City A.M. looks at the financial and economic impact of the ongoing pandemic on a range of small and medium-sized businesses across London. This week: How a creative provider of experience in East London was pushed to go entirely digital overnight, without losing its authenticity and immersiveness. “As Covid hit and the bottom fell out [...]
Exclusive: A quarter of Londoners fear capital will lose global status April 29, 2021 More than a quarter of Londoners fear the capital will become less important on the global stage as a result of the dual shock of Covid-19 and Brexit. A survey conducted by market research firm One Pulse exclusively for City A.M. revealed 26.5 per cent of Londoners believe the city will lose international clout over [...]
Mayor of London election: Minor candidates create a race within a race April 27, 2021 This year’s mayor of London election has set a record for the most ever candidates – a 20-strong field of career politicians, chancers, grifters, oddballs, cranks, culture warriors and earnest small party hopefuls. The race itself has provided little interest for the public at large, with a Sadiq Khan victory a foregone conclusion at a [...]
Ethiopia overhauls its education system with IOHK blockchain partnership April 27, 2021 Global blockchain specialist IOHK has partnered with the Ethiopian government to overhaul the nation's education system.
City Corporation unveils action plan to be world’s most innovative, inclusive and sustainable centre April 27, 2021 The Square Mile must adapt to post-pandemic economic and social trends in order to remain a world-leading ecosystem, according to a new report published today by the City of London Corporation. The Square Mile: Future City, produced by the City Corporation’s Recovery Taskforce inpartnership with Oliver Wyman, sets out a vision for the next five [...]