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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Trump just tweetstormed a 35pc tax on businesses moving jobs away from US

December 4, 2016

Donald Trump has warned US companies that they can not move production out of the US and then sell goods back to the country without "retribution or consequence" as he threatened to impose a 35 per cent tax on any companies that do. The President-elect tweeted that he would impose a "35 per cent tax [...]
The comeback Clegg? Ex-Lib Dem leader is confident of party’s return

December 4, 2016

Riding high on his party winning the Richmond Park by-election, former Liberal Democrat leader and deputy PM Nick Clegg has expressed his confidence that it is recovering from nearly being wiped out at last year's disastrous General Election. "It's in many different parts of the country where the Liberal Democrat fortunes appear – appear – to [...]
BT boss on Ofcom: “I don’t think they are trying to break the company up”

December 4, 2016

BT has played down damning action by the telecoms watchdog to split up the company for failing to address competition concerns. Chairman Sir Mike Rake has insisted that Ofcom is not trying to break-up the telecoms firm, just days after the regulator said it was pushing forward with plans to legally separate its Openreach broadband infrastructure division. Rake denied that Ofcom was calling [...]
These are the professions we trust the most (and least) in a “post-truth” world

December 4, 2016

Doctors are no longer the most trusted profession in Britain, but politicians shouldn't get their hopes up just yet – they still don't have the confidence of the nation in an era now labelled "post-truth". Nurses have been named as the experts people believe will tell the truth more than any other, knocking doctors into second [...]
Top Tory MPs warn hard Brexit could cost party the next election

December 4, 2016

A group of senior Conservative MPs have warned that the party risks losing the next election if it goes for a hard Brexit, urging the Prime Minister Theresa May to publish the government's plans for negotiations. The warning comes after the surprise result in the Richmond by-election where the Lib Dem's overturned a Tory majority "with [...]
The Royal Mint is putting gold bullion on the blockchain

November 29, 2016

It’s not just currency that’s going digital – £1bn of the Royal Mint’s gold will soon be on the blockchain. The 1,000-year-old government-owned institution is working with exchange giant CME Group create a new digital trading platform for investors to buy and sell gold using blockchain’s distributed ledger technology (DLT) to track ownership. Why use [...]
The EU court will start trying to answer an incredibly existensial question about Uber

November 28, 2016

The battle between Uber and taxi drivers in Europe is ramping up as they pull up at the European court on Tuesday over a rather existential question: what exactly is Uber? The first hearing in what is expected to be a landmark case that will decide its fate in key European markets will take place in the [...]
VC firm Draper Esprit’s IPO at the height of Brexit has paid off with pre-tax profits of £26.5m

November 28, 2016

Venture capital firm Draper Esprit, the backer of successful startups Lovefilm, Lyst and Graze, defied the EU referendum jitters to float a week before polling day in June; now that appears to have paid off. It reported pre-tax profits of £26.5m for the six months to the end of September in its maiden interim results as a public company. The [...]
The UK is a massive digital loser in business, apparently

November 28, 2016

Just one per cent of businesses in the UK are considered "digital winners", with the majority failing to embrace its transformational effects. The UK lags behind the rest of the world and is considerably less digital than several of its European counterparts, according to a new study of more than 4,000 executives and employees in more than 21 [...]
The surprise London areas where disposable income’s rising fastest

November 28, 2016

Did someone say gentrification? Any resident of south London knows the area's on the rise, but now new figures reveal just how much that's happening: disposable incomes in some of the hottest areas south of the Thames are rising more than 10 times faster than the rest of the UK. Lewisham and Southwark experienced a 5.3 per cent rise in cash in [...]

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