By: Lynsey Barber

I'm City A.M.'s award-winning technology editor, covering everything from happenings at Apple and Google to the latest London startup. In particular fintech, blockchain, artifical intelligence, driverless cars, virtual reality and the sharing economy get me out of bed in the morning. I'm always trying to illustrate stories with pictures of dogs. Sometimes with some success. I was named technology journalist of the year at the UK Tech Awards.

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These are the most right-swiped jobs on Tinder: Pilots, physical therapists and teachers more popular than models

February 25, 2016

When looking for love, a person's job can make all the difference – and some apparently more than others, according to Tinder. The dating app has revealed the careers which people are most likely to swipe right on. When picking a partner, women prefer men who are pilots, entrepreneurs, firefighters or doctors. Meanwhile men are more likely to go [...]
Foxconn delays $4.3bn takeover of Sharp which would unite major Apple iPhone suppliers

February 25, 2016

A billion dollar deal that would create a merger between two of Apple's biggest suppliers has already hit a road block just hours after the takeover was confirmed. Foxconn has put the $4.3bn (£3.08bn) deal to takeover Sharp on hold, according to several reports, after receiving new information regarding financial risks. The struggling Japanese electronics maker earlier gave [...]
The 10 locations where homes earn more than you because house price growth is higher than wages

February 25, 2016

Time to give up the day job? If you live in some of these locations, that might just be a possibility because your home is earning more than you. Three Rivers, Harrow and Greenwich are the three locations where rising property prices outstripped average earnings more than anywhere else. The spots in Hertfordshire and north west London earned almost [...]
Shell shakes up shale gas and oil operations as US chairman Marvin Odum exits

February 24, 2016

Shell's US boss Marvin Odum is leaving the company after more than three decades at the firm, spurring the oil firm to shutter its "unconventional resources" division, of which he was director. Odum's exit along with Shell's withdrawal from Alaska and Carmon Creek in Canada has sparked a shake up of the unit which covered shale gas and heavy oil operations and which [...]
Blackberry acquires British cybersecurity company Encription and launches business security consultancy

February 24, 2016

Former smartphone king Blackberry is doubling down on its security credentials revealing that it has acquired UK-based cybersecurity consultancy. Midlands-based Encription has been snapped up for an undisclosed sum by the struggling smartphone maker which once dominated the market. Encription counts the government and local authorities among its clients, conducting testing that emulates the way a hacker would work in order [...]
Canary Wharf’s tech startup space Level 39 names Ben Brabyn new boss

February 24, 2016

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Business is the most accessible high powered professionion with fewer privately educated leaders than politics, law, the civil service and medicine

February 24, 2016

It's easier to rise to the pinnacle of your career in business than in any other profession. The top ranks of business are filled by the fewest privately educated people among 10 of the country's most high profile professions. Just over a third of the business elite were educated at private school, compared to more than half of those in politics, law, [...]
Mars recalls chocolate bars in UK and 54 countries, including Snickers, Celebrations, Mars bars and Milky Way

February 23, 2016

Chocolate maker Mars has been forced to recall chocolate bars including best-selling Mars and Snickers from more than 50 countries, including the UK after they were found to potentially contain bits of plastic. The US company said the popular sweets are being recalled in 55 countries across Europe, including the UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands in Europe as well [...]
Bill Gates backtracks on Apple versus FBI comments on iPhone encryption and “backdoors” stance

February 23, 2016

Bill Gates has backtracked on earlier comments he made suggesting that he sided with the FBI in its request for Apple to break encryption on the iPhone of a mass shooter who killed 14 people in San Bernadino. Apple has argued against complying with the order, saying that it amounts to weakening encryption with a so-called [...]
999 emergency phone number down in parts of Cambridgeshire and Suffolk in south east england

February 23, 2016

The emergency 999 number is down for some people in parts of the UK, according to several reports. Cambridgeshire and Suffolk are understood to be affected with people unable to make calls to police, ambulance or fire brigade on the emergency line. Cambridgeshire fire and rescue tweeted that phone lines were down in the south east of the [...]

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