Crypto AM shines its Spotlight on Trade the Chain January 15, 2021 Trade like a crypto insider: Trade the Chain combines the power of AI-driven sentiment indicators and actionable, real time alerts, and an expansive knowledge base with a global community of traders to help people make more informed trading decisions Hedge funds and other large financial institutions have long been able to make massive profits on [...]
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 [...]
Jaguar F-Type P300 review: more affordable and more fun? January 15, 2021 The four-cylinder Jaguar F-Type P300 is very different to the bombastic V8s. How does it stack up versus the Alpine A110 and Porsche Cayman?
New BBC chair Richard Sharp hints at licence fee reform January 14, 2021 The incoming chair of the BBC has hinted at a possible overhaul of the licence fee funding model as he vowed to shake up the culture of the public service broadcaster. Appearing in front of MPs today, Richard Sharp said he believed the licence fee was the “least worst” option and insisted it was fit [...]
The zombie token apocalypse lurches on January 14, 2021 Each week, another crypto project ‘moons,’ and many more leave bag holders ‘rekt,’ ever wonder what’s behind these sudden moves? The Initial Coin Offering (ICO) era reminds many people of scams, over-inflated valuations at launch, and dead on arrival projects that rely on market makers to appear alive, which is akin to an overextended billionaire [...]
Crypto markets rally – next stop $50,000 for bitcoin?Crypto sees record demand as bitcoin bounces back January 14, 2021 Crypto at a Glance Was that the dip? It seems reports of Bitcoin’s demise have been, once again, greatly exaggerated. The price of bitcoin is now back at $38,000 and the total cryptocurrency market cap is above $1 trillion again. The sun is shining, the birds are singing in the trees, and the chemical odour [...]
Culture secretary: EU ‘let down music’ over post-Brexit touring visa January 13, 2021 The EU is to blame for “letting down music on both sides of the Channel” over a failure to grant visas to touring artists, the culture secretary has said. Oliver Dowden today insisted that the government “fought to get a good deal for British music” but the EU had turned it down “repeatedly”. “It did [...]
How retail can survive in a post-Covid world January 13, 2021 This has been a momentous year for us all. The retail sector has been at the forefront of many of the changes and challenges that have arisen as a result of Covid. While physical stores have spent much of the year closed, the pandemic has driven innovation and fuelled a huge acceleration in what were [...]
‘Appalling’ sized children food parcels were in line with government advice January 13, 2021 Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has revealed that the miserly free school meals handed out to children this week by a private company were in fact in line with government advice. Starmer hit out at Boris Johnson for distancing himself from the fiasco as the size of the meals had been dictated by Department of [...]
Hits Don’t Lie: Shakira sells entire song catalogue to Hipgnosis January 13, 2021 Shakira has become the latest musician to cash in on her song rights after selling her entire back catalogue to music royalty fund Hipgnosis. The London-listed company today said it has acquired the rights to Shakira’s portfolio of 145 songs, including hits such as Hips Don’t Lie, She Wolf and 2010 World Cup anthem Waka [...]