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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It’s totally fine for GCHQ and MI5 to spy on MPs’ communications like the rest of us, tribunal rules

October 14, 2015

MPs keep insisting they're just like the rest of us. But now judges have ruled they actually are – when it comes to spying, at least. A tribunal has ruled spy agencies such as GCHQ and MI5 are allowed to eavesdrop on the communications of MPs in the same way as they would anyone else. Read more: Web inventor Tim [...]
From the Big Bang to the Arab Spring, here are billions of years of history in one single, stunning visualisation

October 14, 2015

Prepare to lose hours of your day. As if a quick fact check on Wikipedia didn't already distract you enough, a new visualisation of billions of years of history distills every major event in time into one beautiful interactive timeline. Charting thousands of world-changing moments, from the big bang to the uprising in the middle [...]
World wealth rankings: Here’s where the world’s millionaires live (spoiler – the number of UK super-rich is about to double)

October 14, 2015

The UK is home to more of the world's millionaires than anywhere else in the world, apart from the US, and that number is only set to grow in the next five years. More than two million millionaires call the UK home, and rising numbers have caused the UK to jump two places ahead of Japan and [...]
Nine amazing facts about the world’s wealth right now according to Credit Suisse’s 2015 Global Wealth Report

October 13, 2015

Credit Suisse has published its annual Global Wealth Report, one of the most comprehensive tools analysing the changing face of wealth across the world over the last 15 years – and how that will change over the next five years. Here are the nine key things you need to know. 1. Global wealth has fallen [...]
Twitter confirms 336 jobs will go a week after Jack Dorsey joins flock permanently

October 13, 2015

Twitter has confirmed it's making job cuts just a week after founder Jack Dorsey made a permanent return to the flock as chief executive. Up to 336 staff will go – around eight per cent of the company's global workforce. "The restructuring is part of an overall plan to organise around the company’s top product [...]
These nine chief executives of British firms are the best performing bosses in the world for shareholder returns and environmental, social and governance performance

October 13, 2015

Nine chief executives of UK firms are the best in the world. The UK is home to the second largest number of top-performing bosses along with France, and second only to the US, according to a new comprehensive ranking based on company performance. WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell emerged as the fifth best chief in the world [...]
London Living Wage: The best and worst boroughs for paying living wages

October 12, 2015

Fewer jobs in London pay above the Living Wage than five years ago, but jobs in the capital are more likely to pay the wage than those outside. Between 2008 and 2010, jobs paying less than the £8.80 living wage in London accounted for 13 per cent of all jobs in the city. By 2014, [...]
10 crazy ideas for the future of London housing which just came a step closer to reality

October 12, 2015

Floating houses and homes on top of hospitals: these are just two radical ideas which are a step closer to becoming reality in London. They are just two of 10 concepts which have been chosen as winners in a search to find ideas for the future of housing in the capital and that help solve [...]
A 48-hour DLR strike will go ahead this Thursday

October 12, 2015

The DLR will be hit by a 48-hour strike on Thursday after members of the RMT union voted in favour of industrial action over pay and working conditions. The strike will begin at 5.30am on Thursday (15 October) and end at the same time on Saturday (17 October). Security and cleaning staff are striking over a [...]
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October 12, 2015

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