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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Amazon Restaurants’ food delivery expands to more London locations

November 15, 2016

Tech giant Amazon is ramping up its battle with Deliveroo and UberEats, extending its food delivery service to more locations in London. Amazon Restaurant has added more than 20 new areas to the list of locations it delivers food to, from restaurants such as Strada and Pod. Read more: Black Friday: Four pairs of wireless [...]
Google just promised everyone in the UK free digital skills training

November 15, 2016

The boss of Google has promised every single person in the UK free digital skills training. In a speech in London today, Sundar Pichai will say: “No matter where you live, no matter where you’re from, no matter what your job is – you deserve access to all the information, education, and opportunity the web has [...]
Facebook and Google have finally taken some action on fake news

November 15, 2016

Facebook and Google have both responded to a firestorm around the proliferation of fake news during the US Presidential race by promising to crackdown on advertising against such content. Google has said it will restrict advertising on pages "that misrepresent, misstate or conceal information about the publisher, the publisher's content, or the primary purpose of the [...]
Metro Bank, Deloitte and Setl are testing a blockchain-based contactless card

November 15, 2016

Metro Bank, Deloitte and blockchain startup Setl have created a card for making simple contactless payments such as buying a morning coffee, using the distributed ledger technology (DLT) in a trial that's understood to be the first of its kind. The card has been tested by 100 people as part of the City watchdog's fintech sandbox [...]
An activist investor has disclosed a stake in Twitter

November 14, 2016

Twitter's share price received a much-needed bump on Monday after an activist investor disclosed a stake in the struggling social network. Hedge fund Jana Partners has bought up nearly three millions shares, sending stock as much as two per cent higher in early trading in New York. The stake was revealed in a filing by Jana [...]
These 15 UK smart city startups are heading on a trade mission to Barcelona

November 14, 2016

City Hall will seek to reassure business and investors abroad that London is open for business after the Brexit vote when top startups head on a trade mission to Barcelona. Some 15 of the top startups creating technology that seeks to make cities smarter and more connected, as well as solving problems such as pollution, population and [...]
Are iPhones about to become a bargaining chip in Trump’s China trade talks?

November 14, 2016

"Making things difficult for China politically will do him no good." That was the gist of an op-ed column in a state run newspaper in China yesterday, which amounted to a threat to take action against any measures on trade with China put forward by Trump: "China will take a tit-for-tat approach then." And iPhones could [...]
Arm’s former chairman is back, and this time at a startup

November 14, 2016

The former chairman of ARM, who led its sale to SoftBank for billions of pounds in one of the biggest deals of the year, has joined a startup. Stuart Chambers will join London-based adtech startup Ve Interactive as non-executive chairman just weeks after the Arm-SoftBank deal closed. "I have rarely come across a company which is as rich [...]
Samsung splashes $8bn on connected cars company

November 14, 2016

Samsung is stepping up its drive into the world of connected cars, splashing billions of dollars on a company specialising in the technology. The $8bn deal for US firm Harman International Industries, an offer of $112 per share, is a 28 per cent premium on the firm's Friday closing price on the New York Stock Exchange. Harman, which [...]
Eight very cool ways Amazon Echo can make your life easier

November 14, 2016

It's a speaker, it's a personal assistant, it's activated by just your voice and it's promising to make your life easier – meet the Amazon Echo. Many people are already raving about the device across the pond where it's been available for some time while many others not in the US have been hacking the device to get [...]

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