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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Friends Day: Facebook’s birthday is today – 12 years on, here’s three ways the social network has changed

February 4, 2016

Happy Friends Day friend! You might have noticed something different on you Facebook feed today – a personal video of your nearest and dearest (on Facebook, at least), all because the social network is turning 12. Yep, it's hard to believe it's entering its teenage years, and that just 12 short years ago, it didn't even exist. Seriously, [...]
Five things entrepreneurs and founders need to know before joining a growth business accelerator programme

February 4, 2016

British entrepreneurs have a lot to be excited about at the moment. With over half a million businesses started in the UK in 2013 alone – helped by a business environment with the fewest barriers to entrepreneurship in the world – and the number growing, it’s a good time to be a British-based business. Unsurprisingly [...]
Twitter’s testing a gif button

February 4, 2016

In Twitter's ongoing adventure to remain relevant, its latest potential product innovation will likely illicit this kind of reaction from the twitterverse: Several users have reported seeing a dedicated gif button on the Twitter mobile app, just like the picture and polls options users have when posting a tweet now. Read more: Twitter chapter and verse? Here's [...]
How one simple change could save the NHS millions: Nurses taking stairs instead of lifts could save £100m, startup StepJockey says

February 4, 2016

One simple change to an everyday habit in hospitals across the country could save the NHS millions of pounds, according to new research. More than £100m could be saved if even just 15 per cent of the country's 348,000 nurses took the stairs instead of the lift while on duty, research from health and wellbeing startup StepJockey [...]
Is this the biggest test yet for Google’s driverless cars? Testing roll out to Kirkland, Washington State will pose rain challenge

February 4, 2016

Google's driverless car testing has logged more than a million miles on the road, but there's one thing they may not have come across in all those hours of driving which could pose quite a big challenge, especially if they were to come to Britain's roads: rain. The self-driving cars will now hit the streets of a new [...]
Index Ventures has a new $550m VC investment fund and its eye on London tech startups

February 3, 2016

Europe's biggest venture capital investor and the backer of star startups such as Just Eat, Asos and Transferwise has raised millions of pounds in new funds to invest in tech startups across Europe, the US and Israel. Index Ventures has raised a new $550m (£377m) fund from its existing long-standing investor base which includes endowments, pensions and insurance funds, among [...]
Lloyds Banking Group is axing 1,755 more jobs and closing 29 branches of Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Halifax

February 3, 2016

More than a thousand jobs will go at Lloyds and 29 branches will close in its latest round of cuts designed to reduce its workforce by 10 per cent by 2017. The axe will fall on staff at Lloyds' retail businesses as well as commercial banking, consumer finance and legal departments. Around 1,000 jobs went at the end [...]
These 13 property developers will help TfL build its property empire – including British Land, Balfour Beatty, Land Securites, Berkeley, Redrow and Canary Wharf Group

February 3, 2016

Transport for London has chosen 13 companies to help it build thousands of new homes on its unused land and generate billions of pounds of new revenue. Canary Wharf Group, Land Securities, Balfour Beatty, Barrat Homes and Berkeley Group are among those chosen to develop 50 sites in to homes, offices and retail outlets across London. [...]
Night Tube: RMT union recommends new pay deal from TfL in major breakthrough for 24-hour service

February 3, 2016

The RMT union has recommended that Tube drivers accept a pay deal made by Transport for London which would end a long-running dispute between the two and get the Night Tube launch back on track. The deal, tabled last week to avert strike action, will be recommended to its 10,000 members in a vote that begins on [...]
Super Bowl 50 2016: Watch the best Super Bowl TV adverts of all time in this top 10 chart

February 3, 2016

The Super Bowl is nearly upon us and that means one thing – the world's biggest brands putting a lot of time, effort, and especially money, into creating the most hilarious/talked about/touching/viral (delete as appropriate) advert. The new round of ads are starting to be revealed, but they have some stiff competition from previous successes [...]

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