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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Twitter buys Indian mobile content marketing startup Zipdial as it eyes emerging markets

January 20, 2015

Twitter has confirmed speculation that it’s buying Zipdial, a mobile content marketing startup based in India which lets users connect through Twitter without being online. Zipdial provides a “missed call” feature allowing users to receive inbound marketing via text message, app notifications or voice calls after making a call to a free number. Users avoid [...]
Amazon Original Movies: Full-length feature films planned for cinema release will start production this year

January 19, 2015

Amazon is getting into the movie business with the launch of a new venture producing full-length feature films to be screened in cinemas. Hot on the heels of its Golden Globe win for TV series Transparent, an original TV series which aired on its streaming service Amazon Prime Instant Video, the retailer will begin producing [...]
Canary Wharf Group expands Level39 tech startup space for fintech, retail and smart city entrepreneurs

January 19, 2015

Canary Wharf’s tech startup space, Level 39, is taking on additional space at One Canada Square to house entrepreneurs focused on developing technology in the fintech, retail and smart city sector. Accenture’s 2015 Fintech Innovation Lab is the first to be housed in the new space and will be joined by another 36 companies taking [...]
Rangers considers two shareholder offers and could use Ibrox stadium as security

January 19, 2015

The board of Rangers football club is considering two offers from existing shareholders to help rescue the Scottish club from financial difficulties. The club has also admitted that its stadium, Ibrox, could potentially be used as security on any financing, despite previously insisting it would not be used on a loan. “At the current time [...]
Allied Irish Banks chief executive David Duffy quits to join Clydesdale Bank

January 19, 2015

Allied Irish Banks (AIB) chief executive David Duffy has resigned after just over three years in the top job at the state-owned Irish bank in order to join Clydesdale Bank as its new boss. Clydesdale, which is owned by National Australia Bank (NAB), announced the departure of current boss David Thorburn earlier this month. NAB [...]
Six UK cities, including Milton Keynes, Swindon and Aberdeen, grew faster than London in the last decade

January 19, 2015

The economies of five southern cities and one northern centre grew faster than London over the last decade, a new report has found. Think tank the Centre for Cities found Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Swindon, Luton, Cambridge and Aberdeen grew faster than London over the last 10 years on three key measures: population, number of new [...]
Long-term policies more than falling oil prices are needed for sustainable wage growth business groups tell Cameron

January 17, 2015

Long-term solutions rather than the short-term gains from falling oil prices are needed to boost wages, business groups have said. David Cameron urged businesses to pass on the benefits of falling oil prices to staff through higher wages on his visit to Washington yesterday. Business groups have responded saying lower oil prices are already creating [...]
Ed Miliband: Britain “choking on their cornflakes” over Cameron’s pay rise from oil price plea

January 17, 2015

Ed Miliband has slammed David Cameron for urging businesses to pass on savings from falling oil prices to staff in the form of higher wages. The Labour leader said the country were “choking on their cornflakes” after hearing Cameron’s plea, speaking at the Fabian Society conference. He accused the Prime Minister of years of “denial, [...]
Eurostar suspended: Lorry fire in Channel Tunnel causes train cancellations for rest of day

January 17, 2015

Eurostar trains have been suspended “until further notice” because of a lorry fire on the French side of the Channel Tunnel. Passengers planning to travel on the Eurostar today have been advised to postpone their journeys and told not to head to the station as no services will be running for the rest of the [...]
Pensioner bonds: George Osborne heralds over £1bn sold to over-65s as a “huge success”

January 17, 2015

More than 100,000 savvy silver-haired savers have jumped at the chance to buy the government's new pensioner bonds, netting the Treasury more than £1bn in just two days. Chancellor George Osborne called it "the biggest opening sales of any retail financial product in Britain's modern history” after the one and three-year bonds went on sale [...]

Two top flight clubs in same league to be owned by same firm after major sport decision

Premier League’s smallest stadium gets approval to begin £90m rebuild

This hotel on the Elizabeth Line is 30 minutes from London but feels totally remote

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