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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Drone sighting grounds Manchester airport flights but police find “nothing”

April 20, 2015

Flights to Manchester Airport were halted for a short time after reports of a drone aircraft flying nearby with police called in to investigate. A small number of flights have been diverted to other airports and other flights have been delayed after a potential drone sighting in airspace near the airport closed the airport for [...]
Uber’s increasing fares in the UK for UberExec and UberLux customers

April 20, 2015

The price of taking an Uber taxi is going up from today – but only for anyone travelling in its executive cars. Fares for two of its services aimed at corporate users – UberExec and UberLux – are increasing, calculated by the per mile and per minute costs of journeys. The cost of taking an executive [...]
Five things to expect from Tesco’s results this week: Billion-pound losses, a pension blackhole, property writedown and more

April 20, 2015

If Tesco thought the worst was over, Wednesday is likely to take Dave Lewis and co screaming back to last year’s blackhole debacle as the supermarket reports full-year results that are expected to be the worst in its 96-year history. LATEST: Tesco racks up worse than expected £6.38bn loss in worst year in supermarket's history With [...]
Liberty Global’s Telenet snaps up Belgian telecoms firm Base from KPN in €1bn deal

April 20, 2015

Liberty Global has snapped up a Belgian rival for €1.3bn (£938.5m). The US cable owner's Belgian subsidiary Telenet will buy Base, Belgium's third-largest mobile operator, to expand its mobile and fixed line business in the country. The all-cash buyout will end a deal for network capacity with the country's second largest mobile network Mobistar, but [...]
Rio Tinto

April 20, 2015

The figures xxx Why it's interesting The FTSE giant was the target of a failed takeover bid by rival Glencore and with the six month cooling period for offers having just come to an end, investors will be eager to see what kind of shape the miner is in with speculation that a new offer [...]
Bye-bye Tech City? Spiralling office rents in Shoreditch’s Silicon Roundabout will push tech startups out of London

April 17, 2015

Technology firms are being forced to consider relocating outside of London by the spiralling costs of renting office space in the capital and the home of tech in Shoreditch. A quarter of London’s tech firms have considered a move away from the capital entirely, while more than two in five lack confidence in the city’s [...]
Time’s 100 most influential people: This is the most important age

April 17, 2015

You won't see Janet Yellen or Alexis Tsipras running in the same circles together with Kimye (that's celeb power couple Kim Kardashian and Kanye West), but they have one thing in common – influence. Along with head honchos like Apple boss Tim Cook, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, politicians Angela Merkel and Putin, and comedians John Oliver [...]
BBC debate: The leaders’ debate had a surpise winner… according to social media

April 17, 2015

Twitter exploded during the BBC challengers’ debate (Source: Twitter) The five party leaders battled it out yesterday evening in a hotly contested debate designed to rouse support ahead of the General Election – now just 19 days away. Labour leader Ed Miliband emerged triumphant from the debate according to the polling data immediately after, with SNP [...]
Clipper Wharf: Luxury flats at former News International HQ and offices of News of the World in Wapping go on sale with million pound price tags

April 16, 2015

Flats on the site of "fortress Wapping", the former headquarters of Rupert Murdoch's News International, which was home to newspapers the Sun, Times and the now-defunct News of The World, are about to go on the market. Developers are preparing to put the million-pound flats at Clipper Wharf up for sale, three years after the media [...]
General Election 2015: Tax is a bigger policy concern than red tape for entrepreneurs – but Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem manifestos failed to address any

April 16, 2015

British entrepreneurs are more concerned about how the next government will address the issue of tax than they are about red tape and regulation. Research by Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) found reforming tax was the biggest policy concern for a quarter of entrepreneurs. Just four per cent called for the government to simplify regulations and decrease [...]

‘National scandal’: Record-high shoplifting driven by repeat offenders

Italy and UK risk driving Formula 1 away with misguided tax raids

Why the Norwegian Arctic is the best place to see the Northern Lights

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