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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HP share price jumps after it splits into two businesses

October 6, 2014

Investors have welcomed HP’s move to split itself into two separate businesses with shares in the tech giant opening five per cent higher. HP confirmed the restructure, which will give shareholders a stake in both businesses – one housing its computer and printer business, the other its enterprise tech arm – today. Current chief executive [...]
Tesco chairman Sir Richard Broadbent could be considering his resignation

October 6, 2014

Is Tesco chairman Sir Richard Broadbent departing the supermarket? After overseeing probably the retailer’s worst period in history, Broadbent may finally be mulling an exit from the country’s biggest supermarket. The chairman would consider stepping down, the Wall Street Journal reports, after the investigation into a recently discovered £250m accounting blackhole is complete, After three [...]
Forget the Galaxy S5 and smartwatches, this is why Samsung is betting £10bn on the chips inside mobile devices

October 6, 2014

Samsung is making its biggest bet yet on the chip making side of its business with plans to spend £9.7bn on a new factory to increase production of semiconductors. The Korean giant is investing in the tech behind the tech, rather than its more well known mobile hardware business which makes the flagship Galaxy devices, [...]
Electra share price drops as shareholders fend off activist investor Edward Bramson and Sherborne Investors

October 6, 2014

Electra shareholders have fended off a bid by activist investor Edward Bramson to join the private equity fund’s board at its annual general meeting today. The move sent shares in Electra down almost two per cent this morning. Bramson’s Sherborne Investors had sought backing for reform of the group, with the elusive investor telling shareholders [...]
Even Her Majesty will have to pay mansion tax on Buckingham Palace, says Labour’s Ed Balls

October 5, 2014

THE QUEEN would be subject to the Labour party’s proposed mansion tax shadow chancellor Ed Balls said yesterday, along with other wealthy property owners. Buckingham Palace, Her Majesty’s London residence, is said to be worth more than £1bn what with a sought-after central location and a large amount of space. However, the monarch is not [...]
UK exposed to greater Ebola risk unless flights to west Africa cut

October 5, 2014

THE RISK of Ebola being imported into the UK before the end of October is as high as 50 per cent, scientists have predicted. Heathrow’s status as one of the world’s biggest travel hubs puts the UK at great risk of a traveller entering the country unknowingly carrying the virus. But scientists have calculated that [...]
Ebola in the UK, what’s the risk? By the end of the month it could be as high as 50pc

October 5, 2014

The risk of Ebola being imported into the UK before the end of October is as high as 50 per cent, scientists have predicted. Heathrow’s status as one of the world’ biggest travel hubs puts the UK at greater risk of a traveller passing into the country unknowingly carrying the virus. With an 80 per [...]
The Queen would pay Labour’s mansion tax, as would 2,724 of her Westminster neighbours but which London borough would pay the most?

October 5, 2014

The Queen would be subject to the Labour party’s proposed mansion tax shadow chancellor Ed Balls said today, along with other wealthy property owners. The Queen’s residence in London, Buckingham Palace, is said to be worth more than £1bn what with a sought after central location and let’s say, a comfortable amount of space. However, [...]
Liberal Democrat party conference 2014: Lib Dems in “fight of our lives” ahead of general election says Clegg in opening spech

October 5, 2014

Liberal Democrat leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has told his party it faces the the fight of its life ahead of the next general election. Speaking to party members at the Lib Dem party conference, Clegg said the party had once again been written off and were the underdogs in the lead up [...]
Twitter is investing $10m in MIT partnership to make sense of social data with a new Lab for Social Machines

October 1, 2014

Twitter is investing $10m in a partnership with US university MIT, renowned for its tech credentials, to make sense of the huge amount of social data shared by people across the world. The Lab for Social Machines (LSM) will focus on “the development of new technologies to make sense of semantic and social patterns across [...]

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