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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This job at Port Lockroy in Antarctica is the perfect way to escape it all… and it has penguins

February 17, 2015

If you’ve ever fancied giving it all up, leaving the city and abandoning the trappings of technology for something a little simpler, this might just be the perfect job for you. Britain’s most remote post office is looking for new assistants. It might not sound exciting, but there is a twist – it just happens [...]
This job at Port Lockroy in Antarctica is the perfect way to escape it all… and it has penguins

February 17, 2015

If you’ve ever fancied giving it all up, leaving the city and abandoning the trappings of technology for something a little simpler, this might just be the perfect job for you. Britain’s most remote post office wants a new assistant. It might not sound exciting, but there is a twist – it just happens to [...]
Revolutions Bars intends to float amid rush of pre-election IPOs

February 17, 2015

Revolution Bars Group, the owner of a string of drinking dens familiar to UK high streets, has become the latest to jump on the IPO bandwagon. The group, which owns 58 bars in towns and cities across the country, has announced its intention to float on the London Stock Exchange, amid a flurry of pre-election [...]
Monitise share price leaps, despite a tripling of losses amid buyer interest

February 17, 2015

The figures Monitise shares opened eight per cent higher this morning, despite the fact the British tech firm reported a revenues fell to £42.4m in the six months to 31 December, from £46.5m in the same period a year earlier. Pre-tax losses grew 150 per cent to £58.4m, however, compared with £23.3m a year earlier. It added [...]
Ukip The First 100 Days: Channel 4’s Farage “what if” TV documentary has already attracted 19 complaints to Ofcom

February 16, 2015

Can you imagine a Ukip future? Now you don’t have to. In what’s being called a "fictional docudrama" – aka a "mocumentary" – a new television show will take the hypothetical situation of Ukip sweeping to power in the next election and run with it. The show, due to air at 9pm on Monday night [...]
Mars One mission: Five British applicants chosen for a one-way trip to the red planet to establish human colony on Mars

February 16, 2015

Five Britons have been chosen as potential candidates to fly a mission to the planet Mars, which will never return to Earth. Four women and one man from the UK have been shortlisted to be on the Mars One mission, along with 100 others from around the world, from an initial 200,000 applicants. They include [...]
Balfour Beatty sells £40m Thanet wind farm stake to Equitix

February 16, 2015

Balfour Beatty has sold a £40m stake in its Kent wind farm business to infrastructure fund Equitix. The struggling firm has sold an 80 per cent stake in the Thanet Offshore Transmission Project it bought just two months ago for £164m. The wind farm, off the coast of Kent, is part of Balfour’s lucrative infrastructure [...]
Chinese names for British landmarks: Shard could be called “star plucking tower” and 100 other attractions christened with Mandarin monikers

February 16, 2015

The Shard could soon be christened with a new name which means “A tower allowing us to pluck stars from the sky”. Zhai Xing Ta, which translates literally as the star plucking tower in Mandarin, is one of the suggestions made by the Chinese public to give London’s tallest building a Chinese name. The home [...]
General Election 2015: Three things we learned about Ed Miliband from his Obama strategist David Axelrod in his interview with the Guardian

February 16, 2015

The man who helped get Obama elected and invented what’s probably the most famous political slogan of our times – “Yes We Can” – is on the campaign trail (sort of) with Ed Miliband as the Labour leader’s hot-shot election strategist. Miliband hired the political heavyweight David Axelrod as an adviser in a bid to [...]
Rail travel: Do you get the most delayed trains in Britain?

February 16, 2015

More than a quarter of train travellers in Britain are hit by delays, with passengers on Southern services experiencing the worst holdups to their journey, new research reveals. The train company which runs major commuter routes into the capital, including the 7.29am Brighton to Victoria “train of shame” which was late every day last year, [...]

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