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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Tesco share price up on CEO exit despite profit warning

July 21, 2014

Shares in Tesco rallied almost two per cent this morning on the news that boss Philip Clarke is standing down, despite the retailer saying sales and profits would fall below expectations. Tesco's share price jumped 1.8 per cent as investors responded positively to Clarke's departure and his replacement, Unilever's Dave Lewis, the first outsider to take [...]
Tesco chief exec Philip Clarke relieved to be out as supermarket issues profit warning

July 21, 2014

Tesco boss Philip Clarke has said he is relieved to be leaving the struggling supermarket as the retailer issued a profit warning. Britain's largest retailer said sales and profit in the first half of the year are below expectations. Clarke oversaw Tesco's attempt at repositioning in the face of tough market conditions and increasing competition [...]
The first-time buyer boom in two charts: Number gaining property ladder foothold hits seven-year high

July 19, 2014

The number of first-time buyers purchasing their own home is now at its highest since pre-crisis 2007 with 144,500 first-time buyers jumping on to the property ladder in the first half of the year- a 25 per cent rise on the same period in 2013. The figures from Halifax point to a boom in the [...]
TSB could be planning to buy the mortgage portfolio of taxpayer-owned “bad bank”

July 19, 2014

TSB has expressed an interest in buying the mortgage portfolio from Britain’s so-called bad bank, made up of the remains of Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingley, for £1.4bn according to Sky News. A TSB spokesperson said the bank “did not comment on rumour and speculation” but the boss of the newly-listed bank Paul Pester [...]
MH17 passenger list names 298 killed in Malaysia Airlines plane crash

July 19, 2014

Malaysia Airlines has named the 283 passengers and 15 flight crew who were travelling on the flight which was downed in the Ukraine, in an attempt to contact family members or friends of those killed. The airline said despite attempts to track down family members with the help of foreign embassies, it had not managed [...]
Miliband outlines Labour Party’s economic plans: No big spending, more banks, 200,000 new homes a year

July 19, 2014

Ed Miliband has told Labour there will be no return to the high spending of the previous Labour government and that the party will commit to "balancing the books" at the Party’s national policy forum in Milton Keynes today. The Labour leader outlined economic plans to party activists in a speech ahead of next year’s [...]
Starbucks: Mobile ordering of coffee via app to be trialled in one secret location

July 19, 2014

Coffee lovers in one lucky city will get to test out a new service from Starbucks which lets you place an order from wherever you are for pick up in store using a smartphone app as the coffee chain begins trialing mobile ordering. It’s a major step for Starbucks in its plans to introduce the mobile [...]
Russia and Ukraine political row over MH17 moves online to wikipedia edits

July 19, 2014

Russia and Ukraine’s political row over who is responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 has surfaced on wikipedia after a Russian state broadcaster was caught changing a wikipedia page about the disaster. A change was made to the Russian language wikipedia page on flight disasters by a user with the IP address for [...]
Tesco plans to build 4,000 new homes on vacant land it no longer wants for supermarkets

July 18, 2014

Tesco is planning to build 4,000 homes across the UK on land it had previously bought to expand its supermarket locations but will no longer use. The Telegraph reports the UK’s largest supermarket is working on plans to either build the houses itself or sell off the land to property developers. Tesco is scaling back its [...]
Amazon Kindle Unlimited: £6 a month “Netflix for books” ebook subscription service launches

July 18, 2014

Amazon has officially launched its new book subscription service Kindle Unlimited after details of the new offering leaked earlier in the week. Dubbed the “Netflix for books”, Amazon Unlimited will offer customers unlimited access to selected books and audiobooks, including best sellers such as Harry Potter and the Hunger Games, for a monthly fee of [...]

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