Meet Shein: The secretive Chinese fast-fashion firm taking over online retail July 27, 2021 Taking the Tube at the minute can still, at times, feel like time travel. Around you are slightly tattered posters for theatre productions that haven’t been on stage for more than a year; ads for movies touted for cinema release that ended up quietly released to Netflix with little fanfare. Amongst these relics of a [...]
Labour calls for anti-vax conspiracy theories to be censored on social media November 15, 2020 Labour is calling for anti-vaccine conspiracy theories to be censored on social media. The opposition has called for Boris Johnson to bring forward legislation to “stamp out dangerous anti-vax content” as UK regulators prepare to assess Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine candidate. Labour wants this to include financial and criminal penalties for social media sites that [...]
Social media news consumption drops as trust declines August 13, 2020 The number of people accessing news through social media has fallen in the last year as trust in online platforms has slipped, new figures have revealed. The proportion of Brits using social media sites to stay up to date with the latest stories slipped to 45 per cent in 2020, down from 49 per cent [...]
Hancock to hit back at Cummings’ explosive claims he should have been fired over Covid deaths May 27, 2021 Matt Hancock to hit back at Dominic Cummings’ explosive claims he should have been fired over Covid deaths
Bitcoin investors are growing weary of Elon Musk’s tiresome tweets June 4, 2021 Bitcoin holders throughout the world will eventually begin to ignore Elon Musk’s incessant tweets, and the Tesla chiefs influence will have no bearing on the market.
Screenshot: Will Tim Davie win the generation game? October 30, 2020 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: A sorry soy saga ** Tim Davie and the BBC’s tug of war ** The tech titans’ tumultuous year Media Moment of the Week This week it’s another [...]
Screenshot: Is price comparison the Future of publishing? November 27, 2020 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: A baking bonanza **Future’s flirtation with Go Compare: Insane or inspired? **Baby boomer radio beats Media Moment of the Week For many of us, The Great British Bake Off [...]
Irritated business owners on the fuel crisis: ‘Slow handclap for the simpletons’ September 28, 2021 Retailers warned this morning the panic buying of fuel shows no sign of ending, despite ministers urging people not to do so. Many gas stations across the UK continue to run dry, as long queues were again reported outside stations which were open. An estimated 70 to 90 per cent of petrol stations are still [...]
A significant skirmish in an intensifying war: How player power helped bring the European Super League to its knees April 23, 2021 James Milner seemed to speak for many Premier League players and managers when he said on Monday: “I don’t like it and hopefully it doesn’t happen.” The Liverpool midfielder was referring to the European Super League, the audacious and ultimately short-lived breakaway launched by 12 of Europe’s richest football clubs just hours earlier – including [...]
Cinema chain boss says he wants to accept Dogecoin as payment method September 22, 2021 AMC Cinema chain CEO Adam Aron says he is now looking into the mechanics of accepting Dogecoin as a means of payment.