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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Apple Watch launch event is happening 9 March

February 26, 2015

Apple has revealed it is holding an event on 9 March at which it is widely expected to launch the Apple Watch. The tech firm has sent out an invite for the "Spring Forward" event which will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Chief executive Tim Cook announced Apple [...]
RBS chairman Sir Philip Hampton will succeed Sir Christopher Gent at GSK earlier than expected

February 26, 2015

Outgoing RBS chairman Sir Philip Hampton is being parachuted into a new job at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) earlier than expected and will spend three months as chairman of both companies. The departure of the drugmaker’s current chairman Sir Christopher Gent was revealed last year, with Hampton due to take the reigns from 1 September. Hampton will [...]
Businesses including PwC, KPMG and Axa back four-week limit on unpaid internships proposed by campaign group Intern Aware

February 26, 2015

Some of the UK’s biggest businesses are backing a ban on internships which force young people to work for long periods of time without pay. Accountancy giants KPMG and PwC along with insurance firm Axa are putting their weight behind campaigner’s calls to place a four-week limit on internships which do not offer pay. Campaign [...]
Aston Martin’s Vulcan supercar is insane: An 800 horsepower V12 engine and a £1.5m price tag for this track-only car

February 26, 2015

Aston Martin’s new multi-million-pound supercar would definitely leave James Bond stirred. Move over McLaren, Ferrari and Lamborghini – here’s the Vulcan. Sports car fans eager to get their hands on one of these bad boys will need to be quick – only 24 are being made. They will also need to dig deep into their [...]
PMQs: MP Peter Tapsell thinks “obsessive crackpots” would fill parliament if second jobs were banned

February 25, 2015

An MP has said he believes parliament would be filled with “obsessive crackpots” if they were not allowed to take second jobs. Sir Peter Tapsell, the oldest member of parliament who has been an MP since 1966, said those with money or with rich partners and those unable to get a job elsewhere would fill [...]
UK property market: Number of mortgage-free homeowners now outstrips those with property loan

February 25, 2015

The number of people in the UK who own their home outright has surpassed the number of those with mortgages for the first time since the 1980s. Of the 14.3m who own their house, 7.4m owned outright, compared to 6.9m who bought with a mortgage. Last year these two types of owner were equal, according [...]
Royal Bank of Scotland suspends two staff in forex scandal probe

February 25, 2015

Shares in Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) edged one per cent lower today after it emerged it has suspended a further two employees amid an investigation into the rigging of foreign exchange markets. The bank, which is 81 per cent owned by the taxpayer, said: “We can confirm that two members of staff have been [...]
Barclays launches mobile payment via Twitter name using Pingit mobile payment app

February 25, 2015

Anyone in the UK can now send or receive money via Twitter, after Barclays announced a new partnership between with the social network. Using just a person’s Twitter handle, users can send or receive money with Barclays’ Pingit mobile payment app in a banking first in the UK. Pingit users can already make payments using [...]
Pebble Time and the three best smartwatches to buy right now

February 25, 2015

Before the hype of the still-to-be-released Apple Watch, the smartwatch revolution was kickstarted by Pebble. A scrappy upstart compared to the Leviathan that is Apple, this pioneer was crowdfunding its first smartwatch way back in 2012 and by the end of last year, had sold one million devices. Now it's back with its latest design, [...]
Austin and four other cities are better for tech businesses than London

February 24, 2015

Fresh from a string of reports saying London is the best place for tech – and who are we to disagree – the capital has a rival… or five. Austin in Texas is the top city in the world for tech businesses, along with five others across the globe leaving London in a lowly sixth [...]

Premier League growth rate swamped by American sports

Premier League growth rate swamped by American sports

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