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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It’s official: Twitter’s getting Gifs with search support for web, iOS and Android from Giphy and Riffsy

February 17, 2016

Twitter is adding a new feature which will likely please most of the internet this time: gif support. Users will be able to search for and add gifs to their tweets directly in Twitter. "Whenever you're composing a tweet or direct message, you can search and browse the gif library. So if you're looking for the [...]
RAF Typhoons scrambled to intercept Russian Tupolev TU 160 fighter jets near UK air space

February 17, 2016

RAF jets have been scrambled to intercept Russian fighter jets near UK airspace, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) has said. Russian Tupolev TU 160 aircraft are near the UK but not in UK airspace. The RAF is now escorting the fighter jets across the North Sea. The British planes were deployed from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire this afternoon. [...]
Why Tim Cook is totally right on encryption and “backdoors” in his letter opposing FBI court request for access to iPhone of San Bernadino shooter

February 17, 2016

FBI investigators investigating the San Berdanino terrorist attack have hit a stumbling block: Syed Farook, who killed 14 people, used an iPhone to communicate. The FBI believes that valuable information is stored on the Farook’s phone. Yet they can’t get at it. Putting the wrong password into an iPhone a few times wipes the phone, [...]
Trinity Mirror’s launching a new daily tabloid called New Day within the next fortnight

February 17, 2016

Trinity Mirror is preparing to launch a new daily newspaper slated to be called New Day just days after the Independent's run in print came to an end after three decades. New Day could launch in less than a fortnight, with plans due to be unveiled at the same time as its annual results on 29 [...]
Ferrari share price rises on George Soros stake disclosure

February 17, 2016

Shares in Ferrari have gone into overdrive, rising more than five per cent after it was revealed George Soros owns a stake in the luxury car maker. The billionaire's fund disclosed a €28m (£21.8m) stake which places him among Ferrari's top 10 shareholders, according to Bloomberg analysis. The biggest shareholders in Ferrari are the Agnelli family and Piero Ferrari, the [...]
Google Ideas think tank becomes Jigsaw in latest Alphabet renaming

February 17, 2016

First Google surprised us with a name change to Alphabet, now, it's taken further inspiration from the kids' playroom with its latest renaming. Google Ideas, the search giant's think tank, will be called Jigsaw from now on and will expand its focus to become a technology incubator. "The team’s mission is to use technology to tackle [...]
Is your city most or least at risk from robots taking jobs?

February 17, 2016

The robot overlords are taking your jobs, so we've been told time and time again. But there are some places in Britain where that's more likely to happen than others. Exeter, Crawley and Norwich have the highest number of job vacancies which are at the greatest risk of automation in the future, according to new research. It [...]
Tim Cook: Apple won’t unlock San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone with “backdoor”, responding to FBI court ruling, and warns of weakened encryption risks

February 17, 2016

Apple boss Tim Cook has said the company will contest a US court ruling forcing it to break the encryption on the iPhone of one of the San Bernadino shooters. "The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far [...]
Google for gifs startup Giphy raises $55m valuing search platform and gif creator tool at $300m

February 16, 2016

Time to start investing in gifs? The popularity of the animated pictures used everywhere online has helped the gif search engine and gif creator tool Giphy raise $55m (£38m) from venture capital investors. The cash follows a $17m round of funding just over a year ago which valued the firm at $80m, as well as crowdfunding some investment in the [...]
Giftastic! Giphy raises $17m valuing gif search platform at $80m

February 16, 2016

Who knew gifs could be such a money-spinner? Giphy, a platform dedicated to creating and distributing animated gif images, has raised $17m (£11.3m) in a series B funding round that values the firm at $80m (£53m). The two-year-old New York-based company raised the funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst and other previous investors (Betaworks, CAA [...]

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