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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Shell share price up as Chad Holliday replaces Jorma Ollila as chairman and third quarter profit beats expectations

October 30, 2014

Shell has named former Bank of America chairman Chad Holliday as its new chairman, replacing Jorma Ollila who is set to exit in 2015 after a nine-year stint at the top. Shares in the oil giant spiked nearly one per cent in early trading. Despite lower oil prices, the company reported third quarter profits jumped [...]
WhatsApp in numbers: When will it make a profit and reach 1 billion users?

October 29, 2014

It may not be making any money yet, but newly Facebook-owned tech darling WhatsApp still has some pretty interesting numbers. Revealed yesterday by Facebook during its latest earnings, its the first time outsiders have been able to get an inside look at the app which Facebook paid a hefty sum for. So, we know Facebook [...]
Tesco share price rises as it confirms Serious Fraud Office has launched a criminal investigation

October 29, 2014

The Serious Fraud Office has launched a formal criminal investigation into accounting errors at Tesco which led to a £263m profit black hole. Despite that, shares rose 2.6 per cent in mid-afternoon trading. The SFO had previously said it was “following developments at Tesco with interest” after the supermarket’s profit overstatement was first revealed in [...]
How a single comment cost Royal Bank of Canada millions of dollars in fees from Alibaba’s IPO

October 29, 2014

One banker will be keeping his or her mouth shut for a while to come after, let’s say a slight snafu, ended up costing their employer millions of dollars. The loose-lipped, unnamed banker at Royal Bank of Canada apparently let slip a comment about Alibaba during a webinar. No biggie, surely – unless the bank [...]
Plasma TVs are officially dead as LG is the last major company to end production

October 28, 2014

LG is the latest, and last, major electronics maker to end production of the screen which was once the height of super-size TV technology – the plasma screen. This time last year LG, Samsung and Panasonic were the only major manufacturers still in the plasma market after seventeen years. Panasonic earlier this year stopped making [...]
Ex-Manchester United player Louis Saha creates Axis Stars, a social network for professional sports stars

October 28, 2014

The retired French football star and former Manchester United player Louis Saha isn’t taking his retirement lightly. In the vein of celebs-turned-tech aficionados, Saha has launched a social network, although its not a million miles away from his previous life on the pitch. Axis Stars is aimed at professional athletes and sports stars as well [...]
National Grid: Winter blackouts in Britain unlikely, but lowest energy supply in seven years is “slow motion train crash”

October 28, 2014

Falling energy supplies in the UK have been dubbed "a slow motion train crash" as it was revealed capacity has fallen to a seven-year low. The National Grid, the UK’s national energy operator, said spare capacity will be close to four per cent this winter compared to around five per cent last year and 17 [...]
Six of the world’s top performing chief executives are British

October 28, 2014

Six British business leaders have made a list of the worlds top performing chief executives, representing six per cent in the ranking of 100 bosses. Two of the six Brits made the top 10, not far behind Amazon chief Jeff Bezos who was rated number one according to Harvard Business Review research. David Pyott, head of [...]
Three ways tech is helping fight Ebola using SMS text messages, data and robots

October 24, 2014

More than one billion dollars is needed to fight the Ebola epidemic in Africa the UN has calculated. In West Africa where the worst affected countries are located the disease is proving difficult to tackle in the face of widespread poverty and a lack of healthcare. Beyond the emergency humanitarian aid, health workers and soldiers [...]
Pearson share price drops as finance chief Robin Freestone exits while full year guidance remains on track says John Fallon

October 24, 2014

Pearson's share price dropped two per cent this morning after it said it's losing its long-serving finance man, Robin Freestone, who is departing the publisher after 10 years. The Pearson board has already begun the search for a replacement for Freestone when he departs before the end of 2015, and is looking both internally and [...]

West Ham United relegation to cost London taxpayers millions

West Ham United relegation to cost London taxpayers millions

Jinkx Monsoon’s Judy Garland musical proves drag is serious art

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