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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Twitter timeline change: This is Twitter’s new “best of” algorithmic timeline feature

February 10, 2016

Twitter has revealed the changes that are coming to people's timelines. Despite the outrage over reports of the introduction of a feed curated by an algorithm rather than simply appearing in chronological order, the feature will roll out from today – although it is optional. In a blog post, Twitter said: "Here's how it works. You flip on [...]
City supremo Rich Ricci is racing into fintech joining FreemarketFX as chairman

February 10, 2016

City supremo Rich Ricci, the former long-standing boss of Barclays' investment banking, is jumping on board the fintech revolution. The horse racing fan and former right-hand man of Bob Diamond will join the p2p currency exchange platform FreemarketFX, founded by former senior executive at Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank Alex Hunn, as non-executive chairman He has also invested an undisclosed sum in [...]
London fintech startup World Remit raises $45m from Triple Ventures Growth BDC and Silicon Valley Bank

February 10, 2016

Star London fintech startup World Remit has landed another multi-million pound round of funding from investors. Triple Ventures Growth BDC and Silicon Valley Bank have invested $45m (£31m) in the form of debt financing to fuel expansion plans. Read more: Index has a new $550m VC fund and its eye on London startups The remittances startup lets [...]
Financiers are the most generous philanthropists as Silicon Valley giving shrinks

February 10, 2016

People working in finance and investment are the most generous – when it comes to the richest investors and their philanthropic giving, at least. The generous donations to good causes of people such as Warren Buffett, Richard Mellon Scaife and John Paulson mean the world of finance and investment usurped technology as the most generous sector last year. According to [...]
London houses have missed out on huge price increases because of Night Tube delays

February 10, 2016

Delays to the launch of the 24-hour Night Tube could have stripped billions of pounds in potential increases from property values across London, new figures reveal. The Night Tube's arrival was expected to push up house prices along the route by as much as 10 per cent on top of growth in surrounding areas. In [...]
Nasa’s stunning space tourism posters will make you want to travel to Mars

February 10, 2016

Get your space suit on – these stunning pictures of future space travel will make you want to pack your suitcase and head for Mars, and beyond. The retro poster designs, commissioned by Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab, imagine a future where a mission to Mars is more of a day trip and a visit to Saturn's Enceladus is on the [...]
Insurance tech startup Lemonade backed by reinsurers Lloyd’s of London, Berkshire Hathaway’s National Indemnity, Hiscox and more

February 9, 2016

A soon-to-launch tech startup with millions in venture capital investment and plans to disrupt the insurance industry has been backed by leading insurers Lloyd's of London and Berkshire Hathaway's National Indemnity. Lemonade, a New York-based peer-to-peer insurance firm which recently picked up $13m from Sequoia Capital among others, will be reinsured by the firms, along with Hiscox, Everest, Munich, Transatlantic and [...]
London Fintech startup Digital Shadows raises $14m from Trinity Ventures, Paladin Capital and existing investors

February 9, 2016

One of London's up and coming fintech startups Digital Shadows has landed $14m of new funding from venture capital investors. The cyber security firm which counts the Bank of England among its clients, raised the series B round from Trinity Ventures and Paladin Capital as well as existing investors Storm Ventures, TenEleven and Passion Capital. "Given Trinity's long and [...]
The London commute is now busier than ever: Train ticket fares rise to £9.4bn and journeys hit 1.7bn in 2015

February 9, 2016

If you feel like your commute has got a lot more crowded, you're not mistaken. Passengers spent more than ever on rail fares last year, even as a string of troubles across the UK's rail networks left commuters fed up with services. Spending on tickets increased more than six per cent to £9.4bn while the number of journeys taken throughout 2015 hit a record [...]
Uber lets Londoners book black cabs without charging drivers as olive branch in regulation row, but industry and Hailo reject offer

February 9, 2016

Black cabs will be available to passengers through the Uber app in a significant move aimed at dispelling tensions between tradition and technology on London's roads. Uber will make the app available for black cab drivers to find fares with no commission fee for the first 12 months, allowing them to pick up passengers in the same way as Uber drivers [...]

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