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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Three parent babies: IVF type treatment which adds third persons DNA to embryos gets “yes” vote from MPs

February 3, 2015

The UK is on its way to becoming the first country in the world to allow three sets of DNA to be used to create babies. Politicians today voted in favour of allowing genes from a third woman to be added to a baby's through a form of IVF treatment to prevent genetic diseases being [...]
Boris Johnson backs Boots boss Stefano Pessina for speaking out on Labour business “catastrophe”

February 3, 2015

The London Mayor has weighed in on a row between Alliance Boots chairman Stefano Pessina and the Labour party, backing the business boss's decision to air his political views in public. Boris Johnson called Pessina’s outspoken comments “refreshing” after the businessman attacked Labour’s business policies as a “catastrophe”. “I think the head of Boots is [...]
London is home to Europe’s hottest FinTech startups as 24 of the FinTech50 come from the capital

February 2, 2015

London once again dominates in a new list of the hottest European FinTech startups as the capital continues to put its backing behind the sector’s growth. Businesses from the capital represent almost half of those chosen as the FinTech companies to watch in 2015 by a panel of senior executives from across the world of finance, [...]
Four things we know about China’s luxury consumers: Apple is most desirable but British brands rate among wealthy shoppers

February 2, 2015

Chinese spending on luxury goods may be faltering as the economy slows down and the government clamps down on gift-giving of luxury items, but consumer spending is still expected to help carry the country’s economy ahead of the US as the world’s largest over the next decade. The rise of the luxury brand in Asian [...]
Monopoly places real money in French sets of board game with euro notes worth €20,000

February 2, 2015

Do not pass Go, do not collect £200 – take €20,000 instead. The makers of classic board game Monopoly are giving wannabe property tycoons a treat. In celebration of the game’s 80th birthday in France, the paper money found in the set is being replaced with real euros to the tune of €20,580 (£15,526). Hasbro, the [...]
Super Bowl 2015 best adverts: Budweiser’s Lost Dog is a winner but Fast And Furious 7, Terminator Genisys, Ted 2 and Fifty Shades of Grey film trailers prove popular

February 2, 2015

The New England Patriots may have triumphed over the Seattle Seahawks in last night's football game, but there was a puppy that also came out a winner from the Super Bowl. For all the Super Bowl pre-buzz surrounding the adverts due to be screened- with million-dollar ad break spots, teaser trailers and social media campaigns [...]
Apple plans to issue $5bn worth of bonds

February 2, 2015

Apple is issuing new bonds thought to be worth $5bn (£3.3bn) to fund a host of “general corporate purchases,” including share repurchases, dividends, capital expenditures and acquisitions, and repayment of debt. Despite a record quarterly earnings of $18bn, the tech giant is making the most of the record-low costs of corporate borrowing. Seven, 10 and [...]
What does the UK think about other European countries? Russia has fallen in people’s estimations

February 1, 2015

People in the UK feel more favourably towards northern European countries than others in Europe, while Russia is the country we look upon least favourably. Russia was the country Brits also looked upon most unfavourably two years ago, but the country has fallen in esteem even further since then. More than half of respondents said [...]
Obama plans to tax US companies’ $2tn profits held overseas at 19 per cent closing loophole

February 1, 2015

US companies could face a larger than expected tax bill after Barack Obama revealed plans to tax the foreign profits they hold overseas at a rate of 19 per cent. In the US President’s budget, due to be announced this week, a new one-off 14 per cent rate of tax on the estimated $2tn of [...]
Dixons Carphone to launch mobile service for Internet of Things plans through Hutchison Whampoa’s Three

February 1, 2015

Dixons Carphone is the latest to jump into the mobile ring with plans to launch its own mobile service to customers. The retailer has made an agreement with Hutchison Whampoa, the owner of mobile network Three, to provide a mobile service to its customers who are increasingly buying connected devices. Dixons Carphone previously outlined its [...]

‘There’s a kind of romance to it’: Cubitts opens King’s Cross hub on site of Victorian stables

Brentford in talks to host Shakhtar Donetsk Champions League fixtures

New City venue rethinks competitive socialising… again

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