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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General Election 2015: Ed Miliband promises £5bn for 125,000 new homes funded by Help to Buy ISA

April 4, 2015

Ed Miliband has promised billions of pounds of funding to build 125,000 new homes over the next five years. The policy, due to be announced by the Labour party today, is based on the Help to Buy ISA revealed by Chancellor George Osborne in the latest Budget and aimed at getting first-time buyers on the [...]
General Election 2015: AstraZeneca boss Pascal Soriot distances himself from Conservative supporting Telegraph business leader letter

April 2, 2015

The boss of one of the biggest companies in Britain has said he is not backing the Conservatives, despite his name being included in a letter signed by 100 business leaders backing the party's economic policies. Pascal Soriot, chief executive of AstraZeneca, said his name should not have been included in the letter, which was [...]
General Election 2015: Ladbrokes chief Jim Mulllen slams business leaders over Telegraph letter including predecessor Richard Glynn

April 2, 2015

The newly appointed boss of Ladbrokes has slammed 100 business leaders, including his predecessor, for signing a letter in the Daily Telegraph warning of the risks of a Labour government,. Jim Mullen, who took over from long-standing chief Richard Glynn just yesterday, has said Ladbrokes business is in taking bets on the General Election and [...]
Funding Circle’s new funding round will value the London FinTech startup at $1bn

April 2, 2015

Funding Circle is on the verge of closing a new round of funding which would value the London FinTech startup at more than $1bn (£674m) and see it join just a handful of UK tech companies with billion-dollar valuations. The peer-to-peer lender could close funding of more than £50m within weeks, including backing from Blackrock and [...]
Airbnb Cuba: Now you can book a rental in Havana for the first time after lifting of 50-year trade embargo

April 2, 2015

Airbnb is the latest company to benefit from the end of a 50-year trade embargo between Cuba and the US. The San Francisco rental startup, which is valued at $10bn, has added Cuban rental properties to its website for the first time. It will add more than 1,000 properties across the Caribbean island to its [...]
UK construction growth slows more than expected ahead of General Election but outlook is most positive in nine years

April 2, 2015

The UK construction sector has disappointed, with official figures showing growth has slowed more than expected in the run-up to May's General Election. The latest data from Markit's purchasing managers index survey came in at 57.8 in March. Although that's still way above the 50 mark which denotes growth, it's significantly down from 60.1 in [...]
EE offers free phone charging on the go with portable power bars

April 2, 2015

EE is keeping smartphone addicts sweet with a new scheme that offers free phone charging. Putting an end to one of the biggest scourges of modern-life – limited battery life – and the panic felt by anyone whose mobile flashes the five per cent warning, the mobile network will rolling out its new EE Power service [...]
Investment in London’s tech startups hit record levels of $682m in 2015

April 2, 2015

Investment in London’s technology sector has hit a record high, once again proving the city’s attractiveness to investors as firms in the capital gained more than half-a-billion dollars in backing in 2015. In the first quarter of the year, in which established tech startups such as World Remit, Transferwise and Shazam received multi-million pound funding [...]
50 years of London boroughs: Capital celebrates anniversary of becoming Greater London in 1965

April 1, 2015

The city is always changing, but 50 years ago, London underwent one of its greatest changes in the modern era, as the 32 boroughs we know and love (or hate, perhaps) today were formed. Back in 1963, there were around 700,000 fewer people in London than there are today. But they knew what was coming [...]
UK productivity: Fourth quarter of 2014 worsened and absence of growth is “unprecedented”

April 1, 2015

The UK's productivity fell at the end of last year leaving rates of growth at "unprecedented levels" not seen since the end of the Second World War. Productivity fell 0.2 per cent in the last quarter of 2014 compared to the previous quarter, leaving annual growth at 0.3 per cent for the year. It left output [...]

OpenAI fails to hit growth targets ahead of IPO

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