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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Tweet money transfer: Twitter and French bank BPCE will let users transfer cash via twitter

October 13, 2014

Twitter is partnering with French bank BPCE to launch a new service that lets people transfer money between them by simply tweeting. Details of the plans are due to be unveiled tomorrow by BPCE’s mobile payment off-shoot S-Money. The French bank said those using the free peer-to-peer transfer service would need just a bank card and [...]
Amazon jobs: Online retailer plans to create 1,000 new positions in the UK

October 13, 2014

Amazon is planning to hire 1,000 more staff to work at its distribution centres across the UK in the coming months. The permanent staff will be based at Amazon’s centres in Doncaster, Dunfermline, Gourock, Hemel Hempstead, Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Rugeley and Swansea Bay. The hiring spree will add to the 6,000 existing staff working at [...]
Quindell share price rises on third quarter revenue increase

October 13, 2014

Quindell revenue soared 115 per cent in the third quarter to nearly £200m, sending its share price up almost six per cent when markets opened this morning. It’s another boost for the Aim-listed firm in the face of detractors and short sellers and after having to issue a statement saying it knew of no reason [...]
UK’s Eurostar stake up for sale as George Osborne looks to raise £300m

October 13, 2014

The government is looking for a buyer for its 40 per cent stake in the cross-channel Eurostar to raise up to £300m. Chancellor George Osborne has invited bidders for the train operator, which is also owned by the French state-owned rail operator SNCF and the Belgian state-owned SNCB, and hopes to finalise the sale during [...]
iPad Air 2: UK price, release date, spec and rumours about Apple’s 16 October launch event

October 9, 2014

Apple may only just have released the iPhone 6 into the wild but already Tim Cook is moving on to the next thing with a launch event next week. It's all top secret of course. An invite has been sent out to the press for 16 October teasing "It's been way too long" and revealing [...]
Blood moon 2014: Pictures of the October lunar eclipse as UK misses out on sky spectacle

October 9, 2014

A lunar eclipse wowed skywatchers yesterday as it turned the moon dramatic shades of red and orange. The so-called “blood moon” appeared in the skies across North America, western parts of South America, Australia, and parts of South East Asia, The spectacular event was the second lunar eclipse of the year, but the UK missed [...]
Carl Icahn tells Tim Cook: Apple share price dramatically undervalued

October 9, 2014

Infamous activist investor Carl Icahn has published in full a letter to Apple urging Chief Tim Cook and board executives to buyback shares. Icahn tweeted yesterday about the letter to Cook hinting "Believe it will be interesting." In the letter, Icahn said Apple was "dramatically undervalued in today's market" and that "the more shares repurchased [...]
Google “Camel View”: The Arabian version of the Street View car used for mapping the UAE’s Liwa desert

October 9, 2014

Forget the Google Street View car zooming around London and the rest of the country mapping its streets. If you're trying to take pictures of the desert, it’s a whole other ball game. It’s a bit dusty and you're likely to get sand in, well, everywhere, but camels are pretty much built for it. This makes them [...]
In pictures: London Underground reveals new driverless Tube train designs for 2022

October 9, 2014

A new design for Tube trains across the London Underground network has been revealed. Passengers will be able to ride the new trains from 2022 when they arrive on the Piccadilly Line, followed by the Bakerloo, Central and Waterloo & City lines. Commuters will no doubt welcome a new “air-cooling” system on the carriages. It’s [...]
Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and Question Time maker Tinopolis up for sale as independent production company sell off continues

October 9, 2014

Tinopolis, the independent production company behind Question Time, BT’s premier league football and TV hit Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, is considering a sale with a price tag of up to £300m, it's estimated. The Welsh production company has approached a number of media companies and private equity firms with a range of options which include [...]

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