City A.M. team joins the Vertical Rush up Tower 42 for Shelter March 3, 2015 Several intrepid – some would say mad – members of City A.M.’s staff yesterday joined the Vertical Rush challenger for the homeless charity, Shelter. The five members of our very fit digital team – Adam, Cat, Martin, Sarah and Lynsey – joined X Factor star Shayne Ward and a cast of a 1,000 to climb all the [...]
Who’S that girl (falling over at the Brits)? February 25, 2015 Madonna took a tumble last night at the Brit awards after a wardrobe malfunction caused the diva to be pulled down by her cape. Meanwhile, Ed Sheeran won best British album with X, best British breakthrough went to Sam Smith, while Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk took best British single.
Election Sketch: Call me bloody lively, says Dave April 27, 2015 DAVID Cameron was in the City yesterday morning, and he bounded on to a stage to announce that he was “pumped up”. He was speaking to an audience of small business owners, trying to convince them that he is on their side – as well as trying to convince the broader electorate that he is [...]
YouGov: Why you should still trust our research – Brand Index May 12, 2015 After 15 years of getting every election right and setting new standards of accuracy in both polling and market research, YouGov got an election wrong. Sure, every other pollster got it wrong, too. But YouGov has become the face of the industry, and now there’s egg on it. This matters to readers of this [...]
General Election 2015: Cameron says he’s “bloody lively” – but does he need to be? April 27, 2015 David Cameron was in the City this morning, trying to convince small business owners he's on their side, and trying to convince the broader electorate he's passionate about what his party has to offer. The PM has been under pressure in recent days for not showing enough fire on the campaign trail, as the [...]
2015 London Marathon: The gear you need, from trainers to shades April 8, 2015 The London Marathon: 26.2 miles of physical and mental agony. And yet, come Sunday 26 April, nearly 40,000 of us will line up to compete, including hundreds of City workers. The pain, of course, can be mitigated by proper training and making sure you have the right gear. The training is up to you: we’re [...]
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General Election 2015: Haynes Publishing Group chairman John Haynes wants a focus on education and a commitment on corporation tax May 5, 2015 ELECTION COUNTDOWN: 2 DAYS TO GO Every day of the election campaign, we have been asking a business leader to say what policies would entice them to vote for a particular party. Here is our penultimate item. JOHN (J) HAYNES: GROUP CHAIRMAN, HAYNES PUBLISHING GROUP On a Sunday evening it’s not unusual for [...]
Tesla share price jumps after Elon Musk teases new product line March 30, 2015 Elon Musk tweets, markets react. Tesla Motors saw its share price rise by over three per cent today after its founder, billionaire investor and inventor Elon Musk, tweeted that the company would be unveiling a "major new product line" next month. Musk added that the product would diverge from Tesla's main business of designing, manufacturing and selling electric [...]
C4X Discovery IPO: Healthcare firm set to debut £31m City listing October 20, 2014 University of Manchester spin-out C4X Discovery will this morning announce its intention to raise £11m through listing nearly 36 per cent of the business on London’s Alternative Investment Market on Thursday. The float will give the Manchester-based business, which develops technologies to improve the discovery process for small molecule drugs for diabetes and substance [...]