City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile this week? January 13, 2022 City A.M.’s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every morning. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. Aon Professional services firm Aon has hired an ex-HSBC director as its new enterprise client leader for financial institutions team. Pete Rutherford, who has held positions at Abrdn, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Clydesdale Bank, brings [...]
BT confirms talks to offload stake in TV arm in broadband push April 30, 2021 BT has confirmed that it is in talks with major streaming platforms to offload a stake in its television arm as it focuses on its broadband division. BT Sport launched in 2012 in a bid to take out rival Sky which has accrued somewhat of a monopoly on Premier League television rights. It confirmed this [...]
Lamborghini Huracan Tecnica review: Like a hurricane November 4, 2022 The new Lamborghini Huracan Tecnica starts with the track-focused STO, then dials it down for the road. But all things are relative...
Investors pile into real assets amid equity market turbulence June 26, 2022 Investors are piling into so-called real assets this year as equity markets plunge amid soaring inflation and rising interest rates, new data has revealed.
Bezos-backed firm to build nuclear fusion plant in UK June 17, 2021 A Canadian firm backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will build its first nuclear fusion power plant in the UK, it was announced today. General Fusion will build the prototype facility at Culham in Oxfordshire, the home of the UK Atomic Energy Agency (UKAEA). Construction is anticipated to begin in 2022, with operations beginning approximately [...]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie review – fuzzy but heartfelt September 21, 2021 Everybody may be talking about Jamie, but it’s unlikely to be in a cinema foyer. Original studio Disney were intending a theatrical release until as late as May, when the film was sold to Amazon for its streaming service and a limited cinema run in the UK. The adaptation of the West End hit was [...]
Screenshot: Will London ever be ready for tech IPOs? April 2, 2021 This week **Media Moment of the Week: Volkswagen’s awkward U-turn **Will London ever be ready for tech IPOs? **Amazon goes bonkers for bots Media Moment of the Week: Volkswagen’s awkward U-turn There are few things as grating as the forced joviality of April Fool’s Day and it should, in this writer’s opinion, be cancelled. That [...]
Amazon ad banned for ‘misleading’ customers into signing up for Prime October 30, 2019 Amazon has been reprimanded by the ad watchdog over concerns the delivery options on its website may have misled people into signing up for Prime. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received 10 complaints about a promotion that appeared during the ecommerce giant’s checkout process. Read more: Microsoft beats Amazon to Pentagon’s $10bn cloud computing contract [...]
Black Friday backlash: Amazon and GMB dispute protest numbers at UK warehouses November 29, 2019 Staff at Amazon warehouses are staging walkouts on Black Friday and Cyber Monday in a row over the “appalling” treatment of workers. The demonstrations are taking place today and on Monday at Amazon’s head office in Shoreditch, as well as seven other locations across the UK, the GMB union said, and involve “100, if not [...]
Losing faith: French music firm Believe lowers fundraising target ahead of IPO June 1, 2021 French music firm Believe, which helps artists get discovered on streaming platforms such as Spotify, has trimmed down its fundraising hopes ahead of a stock market float this month. The startup today said it planned to raise €300m (£258m) when it lists on the Euronext Paris exchange — below the €500m initially planned. The price [...]