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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New York Times backs legalisation of marijuana in the US

July 27, 2014

US newspaper the New York Times has backed the legalisation of Marijuana in an opinion piece published today and further articles on the issue due to be published over the next week in a series its calling "High Time." The newspaper’s editorial board likened the ban on marijuana, which has been illegal in the country [...]
The price of a chocolate bar is about to rise. Here’s why

July 27, 2014

Two of the world’s largest chocolate companies have announced price hikes in response to rising cocoa prices which have hit a three-year high. Mars, the maker of M&Ms, Snickers and of course the namesake Mars bar, is the latest confectioner to raise prices in a bid to offset the rising costs of cocoa. Hershey, the [...]
Didcot demolition sees cooling towers disappear from Oxfordshire skyline after 40 years

July 27, 2014

The giant cooling towers of didcot power station have disappeared from the Oxfordshire skyline after 42 years of service helping generate the UK’s power. Three of the six 100 metre tall towers were demolished early this morning with the help of 180 kilograms of explosives, taking less than 10 seconds to vanish from the landscape. The [...]
World Cup 2018 should not be held in Russia says Clegg in call for tougher sanctions

July 27, 2014

Nick Clegg has called for Russia to be stripped of its right to host the World Cup in 2018, saying it would be “unthinkable” for the country to enjoy the prestige of hosting the event after the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. The deputy prime minister made the comments in an interview with the [...]
Sky Europe: What will BSkyB’s new TV empire look like?

July 25, 2014

Sky Europe, as BSkyB has now been dubbed after buying up its Italian and German counterparts for between £5bn and £7bn, will span six countries and reach 20 million customers. With the purchase, total revenue across the new company will exceed the £10bn mark, largely driven by UK operations, and “synergies” as they say (read [...]
BSkyB share price slides on £5.3bn deal for Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia

July 25, 2014

BSkyB's share price opened 3 per cent lower this morning after announcing a long-awaited £5.3bn deal to acquire European pay TV operators Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia from Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox, creating one of the biggest pay TV operators in Europe. BSkyB has offered £2.9bn in cash for 21st Century Fox’s 57.4 per [...]
Air Algerie flight AH5017 crashes in Mali with 116 passengers on board

July 24, 2014

Air Algiers has confirmed that flight AH5017 which vanished earlier today has crashed in Mali. The flight was carrying 110 passengers on board, 51 of them French nationals, and six crew. The plane disappeared after requesting to change route because of a storm in the area said Burkina Faso transport minister Jean Bertin Ouedrago. The airline [...]
Sony is spending £200m so you can take better selfies

July 24, 2014

Sony is planning to spend an additional £200m to increase production of the technology found in cameras and used for taking selfies. The Japanese electronics firm is upping production of its CMOS image sensor which is already found in the rear cameras of Apple’s iPhones and other smartphones. Device makers tend to make smartphones with [...]
Unipart Automotive collapses into administration as scale of rescue deemed “too risky”

July 24, 2014

Car parts business Unipart Automotive has gone into administration with the loss of more than a 1,000 jobs as a rescue bid from turnaround specialists R Capital, said to be interested in the business earlier this week, failed to emerge. The accountants in charge, KPMG, managed to offload 33 of the 200 branches to the Parts [...]
Daily Mail group revenue up from b2b business, media ad revenue continues fall

July 24, 2014

Revenue at Daily Mail owner DMGT is up two per cent for the three months to the end of June on the same period last year in line with expectations despite a lower return from the IPO of Zoopla in June. DMGT’s b2b business revenue grew by nine per cent with dmg information up 34 per [...]

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