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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Elon Musk: Apple car is an “open secret” reveals Tesla entrepreneur as he talks rivals and driverless cars

January 12, 2016

Entrepreneur Elon Musk has said it's an open secret that Apple is working on making an electric car which would rival his own company Tesla. Speaking to the BBC in an exclusive interview, Musk said that Apple and another new rival Faraday Future had been hiring Tesla engineers over recent months. "It's pretty hard to [...]
Tube strikes 2016: When are they, how long are they for, who is striking and why? Everything you need to know

January 11, 2016

When are the strikes and how long will they last? London will be brought to a halt once again by 24-hour strikes on the Tube, and they're coming pretty soon. The dates to stick in your diary are at the end of January and middle of February. 1. Tuesday 26 January – Wednesday 27 January. 2. Monday [...]
Tube strikes 2016 dates: RMT and Aslef confirm three days of strikes over the Night Tube pay row with TfL

January 11, 2016

RMT and Aslef unions have confirmed they will stage three 24-hour strikes in a long running row over driver pay and conditions with the proposed launch of the Night Tube. RMT member drivers will walkout from 6.30pm on the following dates for 24 hours, disrupting thousands of Londoners' journeys. Tuesday 26 January Monday 15 February Wednesday 17 February Other non-driver [...]
How you can live in a £3m London mansion for free: SpareRoom founder Rupert Hunt’s lucky flatmates will pay only what they can afford for rent

January 11, 2016

One property entrepreneur is giving someone the opportunity to live in a £3m mansion in the heart of the city – for free. Rupert Hunt, the founder of letting website SpareRoom, is looking for a new flatmate for his swanky pad in Spitalfields which boasts six bedrooms over five floors and grade two listed status, but is making it [...]
London house prices: Rethinking high rise estate regeneration could create 360,000 more new homes

January 11, 2016

We may have been doing regeneration wrong this whole time. There's a much better way to redevelop London's high rise housing estates that would increase the number of homes in the capital by several hundred thousand, a new report has found – all but solving the housing crisis. More than a quarter of a million extra homes [...]
Apple News app numbers? Eddy Cue says its been underestimating reader traffic to publisher’s content on iPhone and iPad

January 11, 2016

Apple has admitted it has been counting readers of its News app wrong and that the number of people using it has been underestimated since launching in September. The mistake was blamed on an unspecified glitch and means some of the world's biggest media companies, which publish their content through the app, have incorrect figures. Eddy Cue, Apple's senior [...]
CES 2016 trends: Five things we learned from the biggest tech show on earth – from VR to voice controlled smart homes

January 11, 2016

Unlike previous years, where much of the focus was on smartphones and tablets, the “bell of the ball” at this year’s CES in Las Vegas was virtual reality and the intelligent home. Virtual reality steps into the spotlight While virtual reality still has hurdles to overcome, including developing a sustainable content creation model and reliable way to monetise [...]
If we all budge up, we can house a growing London

January 10, 2016

Londoners now take for granted the facilities, amenities and urban buzz of which they are a part. With that comes a rising population and urgent need for more housing. It’s hard to imagine that there were five decades before 1984 when London, along with cities across the western world, were depopulating. This depopulation coincided with [...]
Fixing the sink estate we’re in: Institutional cash is already building homes in London

January 10, 2016

Despite London’s status as a safe haven for investors, for many living on crumbling housing estates it’s anything but. For decades politicians have ignored the link between poor housing are various social ills. While Tony Blair did much to help cities, he did little for housing. Today’s plans to redevelop sink estates by harvesting institutional capital should therefore be [...]
These are London’s startup hotspots: More new businesses were created in Westminster, Hackney and Camden than any other part of the UK

January 10, 2016

London continues to attract more startups than anywhere else in Britain, easing fears that rising rents could scare entrepreneurs away from the capital. Westminster was home to more new businesses than any spot across the country with almost 20,000 new ventures set up in the borough last year alone. Hackney and Camden were ranked second and third [...]

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