Uber CEO Travis Kalanick insists company is principled after executive threatens journalists November 18, 2014 Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is adamant the company is “principled” and a “positive member of the community” after a senior executive threatened to “dig dirt” on critcal journalists. Emil Michael, senior vice-president of business at Uber, said that the taxi app should “spend a million dollars” to hire a team of researches to dig [...]
Uber executive under fire after threatening to ‘dig dirt’ on journalists November 18, 2014 An executive at taxi app Uber has hit headlines after threatening to dig up dirt on journalists that had provided negative media coverage of the taxi app. Emil Michael, a senior vice president, said that Uber should spend a million dollars on a team of researchers and journalists to help Uber fight back against negative [...]
GetTaxi app launches £5 London rides starting tomorrow November 18, 2014 Taxi app GetTaxi has announced a new initiative starting tomorrow where all rides starting in zones 3-6 booked through the app will cost just £5 if they are under 10km. The promotional "£5 London rides" will go on until the end of the year. The company, which works exclusively with London's black cab drivers, added [...]
Spotify hitches a lift with Uber to begin in-car music streaming November 17, 2014 UBER yesterday announced that it had teamed up with Spotify to allow passengers to stream music through their cabs’ sound systems. But no one knows yet how the taxi app’s drivers will react to being subjected to death metal – or perhaps Beyoncé. In a joint press conference, founders of the two companies said they [...]
Uber’s in-car Spotify tie-up launches in London on Friday November 17, 2014 In a move which will surely prompt a rash of one-star ratings from irate Uber drivers tired of being subjected to death metal, the private hire cab app has announced it's teamed up with Spotify to allow passengers to stream their playlists through their cabs' soundsystems. In a joint press conference today, founders of the [...]
2014 City A.M. awards: It’s always good to toast the best of the City – Editor’s Letter November 13, 2014 In a matter of weeks, during the first few days of January, I will be calling people to invite them to next year’s City A.M. awards. The event, the latest of which was held last night, has become a fixture in the City calendar and has grown in stature since its inception. Last night, [...]
From Aldi to PwC: the year’s heroes revealed November 13, 2014 The 2014 City A.M. awards were as glamorous and entertaining as ever with guest speaker Sir Martin Sorrell kicking off an exciting ceremony with 14 awards given THE GRANGE St Paul’s Hotel was packed to the rafters last night with some of the City’s favourite faces as the City A.M. awards took its annual place [...]
City A.M. award winners 2014 are… November 13, 2014 CITY A.M. AWARDS 2014 Congratulations to all the enterprising winners of our fifth annual awards. PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR Nigel Wilson Legal & General BUSINESS OF THE YEAR Aldi ACCOUNTANCY FIRM OF THE YEAR PwC ANALYST OF THE YEAR Ian Whittaker Liberum BANK OF THE YEAR Handelsbanken BUSINESS SERVICES FIRM OF THE YEAR Compass Group [...]
PwC, Uber and Zoopla win big at the 2014 City A.M. Awards November 13, 2014 From Legal & General boss Nigel Wilson to WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell, you could barely move at the fifth annual City A.M. Awards – held last night at the Grange St Paul's Hotel – without bashing elbows with a few City grandees. The ceremony celebrated the brightest and best of the nation's money-makers – [...]
Our awards are here – dig out those gladrags November 12, 2014 FROM top hats to Louboutins, the City is dusting off its finest this morning for tonight’s hugely anticipated City A.M. awards at Grange St Paul’s Hotel. With 14 awards to hand over, we’re looking forward to loading up the mantelpieces of the City’s most hard-working and successful names. In the running we’ve got well-known City [...]