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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Jeremy Corbyn considers Clause Four and Labour’s public ownership commitments

August 9, 2015

Jeremy Corbyn, the frontrunner to become the next Labour leader, has indicated that he may bring back Clause Four, the party's commitment to public ownership scrapped by Tony Blair in the New Labour era two decades ago. “I think we should talk about what the objectives of the party are, whether that’s restoring Clause Four [...]
Twitter share price swoops lower and edges closer towards IPO price

August 6, 2015

Twitter shares have closed 3.27 per cent down at $27.55 after having fallen more than four per cent, touching a new record intraday low of $27.29 per share in Thursday trading, hot on the heels of record low close of $28.48 per share yesterday. The social network's share price is edging ever closer towards its [...]
TfL Tube strike 2015: Bus, Boris bike, Overground, roads and London travel without the Underground in astonishing numbers

August 6, 2015

Millions of commuters have struggled to make their way around the capital during today's strike, which has forced many passengers to discover various other forms of transport other than the Tube. Now attempting to make their journeys home by bus, bike, rail, road, Overground and on foot, here's how the transport network has fared today. [...]
These cities are the biggest tech lovers in the UK: Exeter, Cheltenham and Loughborough buy the most, while London fails to rank

August 6, 2015

Londoners may like to think they are ahead of the curve on most things – fashion, food, and the latest trends – but there's one area in which the capital's residents are left trailing. Where technology is concerned, it's the residents of Exeter who are buying more gadgets than anywhere else in the country. Cheltenham, [...]
Tube strike August 2015: Roads snarled by 428 traffic jams and 197 miles of tailbacks

August 6, 2015

At the height of the Tube strike, at what would usually be peak morning rush hour, the roads of London were snarled with 428 separate traffic jams causing 197 miles of tailbacks. While that's twice as much as the average Thursday when the Tube is running as usual, it's not quite as bad as it [...]
UK housing crisis: How deregulated “slums” can solve the shortage of homes and high prices for renters

August 6, 2015

A blog recently posted on the ASI website seems to have driven some angry reaction. “Britain needs more slums” proclaimed Theo Clifford, the winner of our 18-21 category of our Young Writer on Liberty Competition. While the ASI has a policy of publishing a whole range of opinions (views expressed on the blog are those [...]
Britain’s now a smartphone and selfie nation, Ofcom report finds

August 6, 2015

If you feel like smartphones are taking over, you're not wrong. The nation is now using smartphones to get online more than any other device for the first time in history. The smartphone has snatched the crown from laptops as the device people said was the most important for getting online – 33 per cent [...]
Tube strike August 2015: Night Tube odds-on for delayed launch

August 6, 2015

Odds are the Night Tube's intended launch date of 12 September – the day pencilled in by TfL and more than a few partygoers – will be missed, according to bookies. The fate of the long-awaited service hangs in the balance as unions representing London Underground drivers remain at loggerheads with Transport for London and [...]
Quindell faces criminal investigation by Serious Fraud Office

August 5, 2015

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has launched a criminal investigation into the Aim-listed tech company Quindell. Quindell said in a market update that it was informed of the probe this afternoon and the SFO is investigating its business and accounting practices. The investigation comes after the troubled company reported £238m annual losses and restated previous [...]
Tube strike August 2015: London needs to call in retired drivers as a contingency plan to keep the capital running

August 5, 2015

When the RMT leadership branded the mayor’s Night Tube plan as a “vanity project” that should be shelved, we reached a crunch point. The militant rail unions have inflicted misery on London commuters and have caused untold damage to the capital’s economy through disruptive strikes in recent years, the latest due this evening over the [...]

Starmer not told Mandelson was denied security clearance

Trump-hating Fifa World Cup fans should have costs paid if denied visa

The golden boy: What we can learn from the late Henry Kelly

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