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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Standard Life annutiues slip but profits are up

February 20, 2015

The figures Shares in Standard Life rose 3.4 per cent in early trading, after it posted figures showing pre-tax operating profit grew 19 per cent to £604m in 2014, as assets under management jumped 38 per cent to £296.6bn. The purchase of Ignis Asset Management helped fee-based revenue rise 14 per cent to £1.4bn, while the company [...]
25 years of Photoshop: A short history of the image editor which gave us Katy Perry’s left shark, Kim Kardashian breaking the internet and Ed Miliband eating a bacon sandwich

February 19, 2015

It’s created iconic images and can take responsibility for the most bizarre image fails ever seen, now Photoshop is celebrating its 25 year anniversary, a quarter of a century in which it changed our visual culture. The image editing software package which became a verb is so integrated into our lives and the way we [...]
Dell accepts Bitcoin in the UK and Canada becoming biggest in the world to take digital currency

February 19, 2015

Computer maker Dell has one of the first major businesses to accept Bitcoin in the UK, and the biggest retailer in the world to accept the digital currency. After success in the US, Dell will now accept payment by Bitcoin from UK customers, making it the largest retailer to do so in the UK, and [...]
Wonga ad agency cuts ties over lender’s bad behavior

February 19, 2015

The advertising agency which created the well known Wonga TV ad campaign featuring puppets of pensioners has said it will no longer work with the controversial payday lender. London ad agency Albion said it does not agree with some of Wonga’s practices which it had become aware of during its time working with the company. [...]
Burger King delivery service launches in the UK bringing Whoppers straight to your door

February 19, 2015

Burger King has just done something everyone has been hoping a fast food chain would do for years -launch a home delivery service. The US fast food giant is, for the very first time, offering to deliver burgers, fries (but not milkshakes) to homes across the UK in a new trial. Customers in selected areas [...]
FCA launches competition investigation into investment and corporate banking

February 19, 2015

The financial regulator has announced plans to launch a fresh probe into the investment and corporate banking sector. The Financial Conduct Authority will begin a full investigation of competition following a review which found price clarity and service quality was limited, making it difficult for clients to assess if they are getting value for money. [...]
Nestle growth slows in 2014 but dividend gets a hike

February 19, 2015

The figures Profits were up by 4.4bn Swiss francs (£3bn) to 14.5bn Swiss francs (£10bn), but sales growth slipped. Organic sales growth for 2014 came in at 4.5 per cent, just below targets of five to six per cent for the second year running, however, it's still targeting five per cent growth for 2015. Sales fell 0.6 [...]
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct on target but sales growth slows

February 19, 2015

The figures Shares in Sports Direct rose two per cent in early trading as it announced sales and gross profits had risen across the Christmas period – up 2.6 per cent to £771m and 7.6 per cent to £346.9m respectively. However, that was a slowdown compared to the same period last year, when sales grew 11 [...]
Air France KLM shares slide as profits hit by pilots’ strike and cost-cutting continues

February 19, 2015

The figures Air France KLM shares have fallen as much as six per cent in early trading to 713 cents per share on the . The owner of Air France and KLM airlines said group revenue fell 2.4 per cent to €24.91bn (£18.4bn) during 2014, despite a 1.3 per cent rise in passenger numbers for the full year. [...]
How much is Snapchat worth? Four charts showing just how big Snapchat’s $19bn valuation is

February 18, 2015

Everyone’s favourite disappearing messaging app, Snapchat, has raised a new round of funding which values the firm as high as $19bn (£12.3bn). It’s a vote of confidence for the four-year-old app, which has just introduced a host of content- driven advertising features in a bid to start generating some revenue. The app is looking to [...]

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