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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Here’s how the government wants to use blockchain’s distributed ledger technology

January 19, 2016

Blockchain's distributed ledger technology (DLT) could save billions of pounds by preventing welfare fraud and benefit overpayment errors, according to the government's chief science adviser. The technology could provide a cheap and easy way of getting welfare claimants without bank accounts into the system as well as verifying their identities and would also provide a transparent account [...]
London and Europe are getting a new £500m tech startup VC fund as Chinese-backed Cocoon Networks launches

January 19, 2016

London's tech startups are set for a new injection of cash worth as much as half a billion pounds as a new Chinese-backed venture capital fund launches. Private equity firms China Equity Group and Hanxin Capital will launch Cocoon Networks with £500m to invest in UK and European tech companies which show potential for success in China. The wide-ranging fund will span fintech, biotech, medical devices [...]
Ocado share price jumps on Amazon tie-up rumours

January 19, 2016

Ocado shares jumped more than 18 per cent in early trading following reports of a tie-up with potential rival Amazon. The online grocery delivery company faces new competition from Amazon, which is expected to soon launch its own fully-fledged delivery service for fresh food. Amazon may now partner with the already well-established Ocado to fulfil those plans, according to the [...]
Tube strike 2016: Now TSSA union will join Aslef and RMT for January and February strike dates a day after Unite pulls out in light of TfL talks

January 19, 2016

A third union will join Aslef and RMT in taking part in Tube strikes, the first of which is due to take place next week if an agreement can't be reached over pay and working conditions connected to the Night Tube. TSSA has said it will also walkout if talks between the unions and Transport [...]
Stonewall top 100 employers: Lloyds Banking Group named most LGBT-friendly place to work in the City as MI5 tops list

January 19, 2016

Lloyds Banking Group has been named the best LGBT-friendly place to work in the City, and second in the UK behind spy agency MI5. The bank's director of operations, Karin Cook, has been named Stonewall's champion of the year, leading Lloyds' efforts on diversity and inclusion. JP Morgan, Bank of America Merill Lynch and Macquarie entered [...]
Friends Reunited is finally closing

January 18, 2016

Before Facebook, there was Friends Reunited. Dating all the way back to the pre-iPhone, dial-up internet, turn of the century, the British social network was born in the original dotcom boom and fared about as well. But finally, sixteen years later, the social network will shut for good, leaving a "handful" of users and its founders with a tear in their eye [...]
WhatsApp will drop subscriptions to go free and its new plan to monetise is identical to Facebook Messenger

January 18, 2016

WhatsApp is ditching its subscription fee for a new approach that sounds suspiciously familiar. In a blog post, the company announced: "…WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees. For many years, we've asked some people to pay a fee for using WhatsApp after their first year. As we've grown, we've found that this approach hasn't worked [...]
Tesco, Sainsbury’s and M&S are among most praised companies by NGOs but VW and Royal Dutch Shell make “naughty” list of most criticised

January 18, 2016

Tesco, Sainsbury's and M&S are certainly not having the best of times on the high street these days, but there's one place their winning at least. The three are among several of the biggest global companies to make a "nice" list of companies which pressure groups and campaigners across the world, from the likes of Which? to Greenpeace, have [...]
Forget peak oil, Ikea says we’ve hit “peak stuff”: It’s curtains for home furnishings says sustainability boss Steve Howard

January 18, 2016

Someone clearly got Marie Kondo's book for Christmas. Apparently we've reached "peak stuff", bringing to an and the era of cheap flat pack furniture frustration and a desire for the latest designer cushions, according to – of all people – an executive at furniture giant Ikea. "If we look on a global basis, in the west we [...]
Asda will axe jobs in the UK as supermarket struggles continue

January 18, 2016

Asda will axe jobs in the UK amid increasing pressure on British supermarkets. The redundancies will be at Walmart-owned supermarket's Leeds head office. The supermarket said in a statement: "It’s well documented that in recent years, customers have radically changed the way they shop. "We were the first of the “big four” to recognise this and [...]

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