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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TfL Tube strike 2015: Uber is profiteering from London’s Tube strike misery with surge pricing

July 9, 2015

A London tube strike is pretty much guaranteed to spoil your day. But when Uber follows it up by announcing it is tripling its cab prices for the day, a difficult day can become a truly miserable one. We were genuinely shocked by the cynicism shown by our new US rival for its customers. Uber’s [...]
ViralNova bought by ITV-backed Zealot Networks in $100m deal

July 9, 2015

ViralNova, a website which publishes shareable content with titles such as "You probably didn't know that raccoons getting baths would be this cute", has been bought up by the US publishing startup which picked up $5m (£3.2m) backing from ITV last year. Zealot Networks has bought the website in a deal understood to be worth around [...]
Cisco is making $1bn investment in UK tech including $150m IoT startup venture backing

July 9, 2015

Cisco is making a major long-term investment in UK tech with $1bn of investment and the creation of hundreds of jobs. The tech company which already employs 7,000 people in the UK – its biggest market – is also eyeing up acquisitions here, continuing a spree that has seen the company buy up five tech [...]
TfL Tube strike 2015: Uber surge pricing triples fares as travellers face transport chaos

July 9, 2015

The price of getting an Uber has rocketed as London's Tube network was brought to a standstill by strike action. The ride-booking app introduces surge pricing during times of high demand, and the basic fare increased as much as 2.9 times the cost on an average day after the strike began during yesterday evening's rush [...]
Tube strike 2015: Travel advice for Thursday – No Tube, but DLR, London Overground, trams, rail and 200 extra buses will run

July 9, 2015

The Tube strike is on, and that means you're likely to run into problems if you're travelling in London on Thursday. Here's everything you need to know to prepare and plan for your journey. When? No services will run on Thursday at all after the 24-hour strike began on Wednesday evening. There may still be [...]
Microsft cuts thousands more jobs and takes $7.6bn writedown on Nokia phone business acquisition

July 8, 2015

Microsoft chief Satya Nadella has made another round of job cuts as the business took a multi-billion dollar writedown on its purchase of Nokia. The struggling PC business will lay off 7,800 staff, the majority of whom work in the phone side of the business. It will also take a writedown of $7.6bn on the Nokia [...]
July Budget 2015: Here’s what Twitter said about George Osborne’s speech

July 8, 2015

Before George Osborne even posed for the cameras with Budget box in hand, the pre-Budget buzz on Twitter had already reached 200 tweets per minute – then when he stepped up to the despatch box, that rocketed to more than 1,000 tweets per minute. The biggest talking point of the day was the student maintenance [...]
July Budget 2015: George Osborne biggest Budget winner as chancellor becomes favourite for next Tory leader

July 8, 2015

George Osborne was the biggest winner of today's Budget, becoming the favourite to replace David Cameron as the next Tory leader. Odds on the chancellor becoming the next party leader fell to 5/2, overtaking London mayor Boris Johnson on the list of potential contenders, according to Ladbrokes. Read more: The Budget as it happened – [...]
Greece debt crisis: Alexis Tsipras promises reform as Greece makes third bailout request

July 8, 2015

Greece has made a formal request for its third bailout and will implement tax and pension reforms as early as next week. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras promised "credible reforms" will be put forward in proposals to creditors on Thursday in return for a three-year bailout fund. "[Greece will] file new concrete proposals, credible reforms, [...]
July Budget 2015: Odds on George Osborne to talk Greece, BBC, Long Term Economic Plan… and maybe some Balls

July 8, 2015

Will George Osborne be talking Balls in the Budget? Ed Balls that it is. The chancellor name-checking the ousted MP and former shadow chancellor in his Budget address is a 10/1 bet. It's more likely Osborne will give a mention to #MinisterOfAwesome Yanis Varoufakis at 5/1, while Greece is the word topping the Budget buzzword [...]

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