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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London transport crime falls – except for these two serious offences

August 19, 2015

Londoners can feel slightly safer in the city, after new figures revealed crime on the capital's Tubes, trains and buses has fallen 12 per cent. There were 1,300 fewer crimes in 2104/15 compared with the previous year – in fact, crime in London fell at a faster rate than the rest of the UK, which [...]
Prosecco vs champagne: Italian sparkling wine sales overtake champagne as Brits quaff £339m

August 19, 2015

Sales of prosecco have overtaken champagne for the first time as Brits knocked back a third of a billion pounds worth of the Italian sparkling wine. The value of prosecco sales has rocketed by £142m, or 72 per cent in the last year, hitting £339m – fizzing ahead of its French rival. Champagne sales were flat, up [...]
Meet the Gartner Hype Cycle for 2015: It’s all about self-driving cars and smart dust in emerging tech trends

August 18, 2015

You've probably heard of the self-driving car, but smart dust probably isn't on your radar just yet. That's because the autonomous vehicle trend has hit what's known as the peak of inflated expectation. Smart dust on the other hand, is at the earliest stage of innovation, as defined by Gartner in its annual research on [...]
OMG! LOL! NBCUniversal invests $200m in Buzzfeed

August 18, 2015

US media company NBCUniversal has made a $200m (£127m) investment in digital media upstart Buzzfeed, valuing it at more than $1bn. In addition to the widely rumoured injection of cash, the pair will work together on content for television, movies and the Olympics. They'll also work on advertising content with brands – although neither side expanded [...]
Rail strike by First Great Western: Talks continue to avert bank holiday chaos for those travelling to West Country, Wales and the Cotswolds

August 18, 2015

It's not just the London Underground which is hitting the buffers due to strike action. First Great Western rail staff are scheduled to hold two strikes – one of them taking place over the bank holiday weekend – causing misery for travellers looking to escape the city for a sunny spot in the West Country, [...]
Four secrets of the happiest Londoners: The perfect salary, commute time, hours of sleep and morning alarm time

August 18, 2015

Londoners may be accused of being a miserable bunch (and tourists standing on the wrong side of the escalator are often blamed), but there are a few things that will perk us right up. Surprisingly, getting up at 5am is one of them. Or that's according to findings of research into the habits of 12,000 [...]
Train fare rises 2016: Here’s how much train ticket prices and your season ticket will go up by

August 18, 2015

The cost of commuting will rise next year, but in a rare bit of good news for anyone who catches the train to work, that increase will be at the second-lowest rate in nearly two decades. The price of rail travel will go up by just one per cent in 2016, in line with the RPI [...]
What’s it really like to work at Amazon? Jeff Bezos says it’s not a bad place, the NYT says it’s hell – here’s what the employee data says

August 17, 2015

What's it like working at one of the leading technology companies in the world which pioneers new business models and is disrupting traditional industries left, right and centre, from books to groceries? Exciting? Dynamic? A fun working day filled with office slides, nap pods and free food? Hellish more like. That's according to the New [...]
FTSE chief executive pay: How long would it take you to earn as much as these top 10 highest earners?

August 17, 2015

The pay packets of the FTSE 100's top bosses has fallen in real terms, with chief executives taking home around £80,000 less than previous years, adjusting for inflation. You probably won't see any of them cutting back, though. That's a drop in the ocean of their annual income from salaries, bonuses, share awards and other remuneration, which [...]
TfL Tube strike August 2015: “Constructive” talks resume between RMT, TSSA, Aslef, Unite and London Underground as clock ticks on strike action

August 17, 2015

Talks between Tube drivers and London Underground bosses have resumed today, in a bid to avert the strike action which will bring much of London's transport network grinding to a halt for a third time. The two sides returned to the negotiating table today following a break over the weekend and three days of continuous [...]

‘Relentless pressures’: More hospitality firms forced to shut even before Iran war

Manchester City: Sheikh Mansour faces calls for ban from English football over UAE links to genocide

In the watch world, exposed movements usurp the vintage revival

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