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 things you need to know about Rex Tillerson

December 13, 2016

Rex Tillerson is officially President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of state, one of the top posts in his team. After one of the favourites for the job, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliana, ruled himself out, it's now Rex W Tillerson who has been named to the job, confirming widespread speculation. Trump himself even teased the speculation [...]
Nokia (and Snake) are back: Meet the mobile pioneer’s new phone

December 13, 2016

Nokia's back on the scene bringing with it features such as, um, an FM radio and, er, MP3 player. No, you haven't fallen through a wormhole in the space time continuum propelling you back into the 1990s. The brand is making a comeback with the type of phone we all used to play Snake on, going for a [...]
Ex-Barclays boss Antony Jenkins is joining bitcoin wallet startup Blockchain

December 13, 2016

The former boss of Barclays, Antony Jenkins, is getting deeper into the world of fintech, joining the board of the largest bitcoin wallet startup in the world, Blockchain. “Blockchain technology has the potential to reinvent the way we use money and contribute to a finance system that’s high quality, low cost, secure, fair and transparent,” said [...]
The number of Uber drivers fighting for workers rights has doubled

December 12, 2016

The number of Uber drivers claiming they are workers rather than self-employed has now doubled as a further 25 drivers joined as claimants in a legal case which ruled in favour of them in October. It brings the total number of drivers in the case seeking rights to holiday and sick pay along with other benefits to 50, [...]
UK video startup Newsflare lands £2.4m

December 12, 2016

Newsflare, a British media startup, has landed a multimillion pound cash injection from a young investment fund aimed at boosting the country's creative industries. The £2.4m fresh funding comes from Edge Investments' Creative Enterprise Fund and will help the three-year-old startup's expansion. Read more: The Memo proves investors still like media startups, with six-digit funding The Newsflare platform connects user [...]
Another British tech firm has been bought by a foreign company

December 12, 2016

Shares in e2v, the British tech firm which supplies imaging sensors that help the Hubble space telescope and the Mars Curiosity Rover take pictures, have jumped almost 50 per cent after agreeing a £620m sale to US-based Teledyne. In the latest example of a US firm being snapped up by a foreign company, the conglomerate [...]
The secret to happiness? Scientists have a new theory (and it’s not money)

December 12, 2016

Can money buy you happiness? It's a perennial question asked by exhausted shoppers and scientists, but new research has identified two other factors with greater influence on your life satisfaction than mere money. It's mental health and having a partner which determine your happiness more than income, or even education, London School of Economics researchers have discovered. Read more: Generation [...]
BT’s creating 500 new jobs to boost customer service

December 12, 2016

BT is creating 500 new jobs in the UK and Ireland to help improve its customer service, which has come under pressure in recent weeks from regulators. Most roles, which come in addition to 1,000 previously promised jobs, will be frontline consumer ones based in call centres in Swansea, Warrington, Doncaster and Accrington. Read more: BT boss [...]
Bill Gates and top investors want to fight climate change with $1bn cleantech fund

December 12, 2016

Bill Gates and several other top investors are planning to launch a billion dollar fund to plough into companies innovating in the energy space in the fight against climate change. The Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) fund is also backed by venture capitalists John Doerr and Vinod Khosla of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Khosla Ventures, respectively. Read more: [...]
The Memo proves investors still like media startups, landing six-digit funding

December 12, 2016

London-based media startup The Memo has landed a new round of funding for international expansion, proving investor appetite for media despite the well-documented struggles of established print media. The more than quarter of a million pounds in cash comes as the 18-month-old online tech publication turned a profit for the first time. Investors ploughing in £280,000 [...]

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