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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Mobile World Congress 2016: What to expect – biometrics, virtual and augmented reality and Chinese smartphone brands

February 16, 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016 always brings with it a flurry of new mobile gadget announcements – here are some of the trends to expect. The smartphone is quickly becoming an integral part of a bigger continuum of devices and smart objects as users increasingly live their lives in a "device mesh." This is an environment, [...]
Agenda-setting and amusing: Why Buzzfeed is a real innovator

February 16, 2016

I don't even have to tell people anymore that Buzzfeed are no longer just about kittens. This is a company that has recently hired some of the brightest and best journalist talent in the UK, including hard-nosed investigative reporters, clever data visualisers and hot political correspondents. Buzzfeed in the UK is built on the hugely [...]
Fast Company’s most innovative companies 2016:OMG! Buzzfeed tops list ahead of Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Uber

February 16, 2016

Move over Zuckerberg and step aside Bezos – there's a new innovator in town, and it might just surprise you to find out who. Beating both Facebook and Amazon, as well as Uber, Apple and Alphabet, it's media darling and animal listicle inventor Buzzfeed which has been named the most innovative company in the world. Putting a nail in [...]
Yahoo will live stream Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting

February 16, 2016

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway will for the first time ever live stream its annual shareholder meeting. The meeting, due to take place 30 April with around 40,000 shareholders in Omaha, will be broadcast as a live stream online on Yahoo. “Over the past 50 years, we’ve seen a tremendous increase in the interest around our [...]
Raising a kid now costs the same as a house: Here’s five properties you could buy for the same price as having a child

February 16, 2016

We all know raising a kid's expensive, but it's now more expensive than ever. More than a third of parents' income goes on kids each year, and the cost has gone up by £2,500, or one per cent, on the previous year. The total cost has risen an astonishing 65 per cent since 2003, according to [...]
James Bond Spectre auction: Aston Martin DB10 under the hammer at Christie’s with £1m price tag

February 16, 2016

If you've ever wished you could own James Bond's car, now's your chance. The Aston Martin DB10, Bond's car of choice in Spectre – which was specially created for the movie – will go under the hammer on Thursday, giving you the only opportunity to own one. Just 10 of the cars were created and only three survived [...]
Finally: UK living standards are now as high as they were before the recession

February 16, 2016

Time to pop open that prosecco: We're finally living as well as we were before the financial crisis hit. After nearly a decade, the standard of living across the UK has finally returned to the levels found before the recession, however, that recovery could slow over the coming years. The average household income now stands at £24,300, surpassing its [...]
Ordnance Survey map of Mars is an intergalactic guide for ramblers

February 15, 2016

Never get lost again with this handy map of, er, Mars. The bastion of British mapping, Ordnance Survey, has created a new guide for ramblers, hikers and drivers to use for future journeys around the red planet. You can stroll past the canyons of Hydraotes Chaos and Aureum Chaos or the Martian crater Schiaparelli with the guidance from [...]
Airbnb reveals all about how people stay in London: Tourists prefer outer boroughs over central

February 15, 2016

Visitors staying at Airbnbs in the capital prefer the outer boroughs rather than central London locations in the heart of the city. The increase in nights stayed in places around the outskirts is nearly 20 per cent higher than areas in the centre of the city, research from the global rental startup found. Visitors are flocking towards the [...]
Kanye West versus Mark Zuckerberg’s wealth in charts: Net worth, income, property and where their money comes from

February 15, 2016

Why on earth does superstar musician and designer Kanye West need to turn to Mark Zuckerberg for help? West has tweeted that he is $53m in personal debt and called on Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg to lend him a few bob. Really. He asked for one billion dollars to invest in "Kanye West ideas", though did not say exactly what [...]

JP Morgan chief threatens to pull £3bn investment if Labour becomes ‘hostile to banks’

Arsenal in talks with architects Populous over Emirates expansion

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