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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SoftBank’s boss wants to be the Warren Buffett of tech

November 7, 2016

The boss of Japanese telecoms giant SoftBank, which snapped up UK chip maker ARM in a multi-billion pound deal earlier this year, has laid out ambitious plans for its new technology investment strategy. Chairman and founder Masayoshi Son said he wants to become the Warren Buffett of tech, handing over responsibility for the day to day [...]
Here’s how much less women in tech get paid compared with men

November 7, 2016

Women working in the technology industry in the UK are being short changed. They are earning nine per cent less on average than their male counterparts in the same job, losing out on around £5,000 per year. And women in the UK are losing out more than those working in tech in other top hubs [...]
IG Group boss joins fintech startup board

November 7, 2016

A top boss at spreadbetter IG Group has joined the board of a startup opening up high level investments to individual private investors. Ian Peacock, head of UK and Ireland at the FTSE 250 firm, will join the advisory board of CoInvestor, an alternative investment platform which lets investors put their cash into assets usually reserved for institutional investors. The six [...]
No ****: Scientists have identified the swearier sex

November 6, 2016

Swear like a sailor? You're not alone. But if you're effing and blinding, it's more likely that you're a woman. Scientists have found that females are flinging around the F word more than males, making women the swearier sex. And the way we swear has drastically changed in the past twenty years, in fact, with men dialling [...]
Watch out Siri? Samsung’s next phone will have an AI assistant

November 6, 2016

Samsung is following the lead of Apple and Google, revealing it will add a Siri-like personal assistant to its newest smartphone, the Galaxy S8. It's the first time a Samsung phone will have the feature and follows the tech company's acquisition of San-Francisco artificial intelligence startup Viv Labs last month. The open platform will let others [...]
Tesco Bank alerts thousands of customers to potential fraud

November 6, 2016

Tesco Bank has notified thousands of customers that they may have been targeted by fraudsters. The supermarket-owned bank said it has identified "suspicious activity" via its fraud prevention systems on Saturday and is taking action as a precautionary measure. "We are sorry for the inconvenience we know this causes, however we want to do everything we [...]
Nigel Farage warns of political anger “the likes of which we’ve never seen”

November 6, 2016

Nigel Farage has added fuel to the fire in the row over how Brexit will be triggered, warning that there would be unprecedented political anger among people who might feel "cheated" and "betrayed". "If the people in this country think they're going to be cheated, that they're going to be betrayed, we're going to see political [...]
MPs want to scrap the pensions triple lock to help millennials

November 6, 2016

A group of top MPs have called on the government to scrap the favourable triple lock on state pensions because it favours the baby boomer generation over struggling millennials. The MPs said the promise to guarantee the state pension with a yearly rise in line with either inflation, average earnings or 2.5 per cent, whichever [...]
Gina Miller condemns “shameful” and “disgraceful” media coverage of Article 50 case

November 6, 2016

Gina MIller, the woman who led the high profile legal challenge to Article 50, has insisted the case is about the way we leave Europe and not about changing the outcome of June's referendum. Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show on Sunday Morning, she hit back at the response of some media to the case, which [...]
Theresa May is promising Brexit “in full”

November 6, 2016

Theresa May has promised a full Brexit after the process of leaving the EU was thrown into doubt in the wake of a legal ruling over how Article 50 can be triggered, risking an unprecedented constitutional row. The Prime Minister has said it is the "responsibility of the government to get on with the job and to [...]

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