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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Dyson promotes Jim Rowan to chief executive, succeeding Max Conze, amid electric car plans

October 10, 2017

Dyson has installed a new boss in the driving seat as it embarks on ambitious plans to build its own electric car. Operations chief Jim Rowan has been promoted to chief executive, replacing Max Conze who had led the British firm since 2011. Sir James Dyson, founder of the technology empire of vacuums, hairdryers and [...]
Paper train tickets will be a thing of the past by the end of 2018 as UK rolls out £80m Oyster-style smart card plans

October 3, 2017

The orange train ticket familiar to anyone who travels by rail across the UK will be a thing of the past by the end of next year. Ambitious plans to introduce a smart ticketing system that lets travellers use a mobile phone or Oyster-style smartcard to "almost all of the rail network by the end [...]
London’s newest way to travel is Gett and Citymapper’s taxi-bus hybrid combining black cab carpooling and a bus-like route

September 21, 2017

An innovative new way to travel that’s part bus, part taxi, is launching in London to help commuters get to and from work on routes that are currently tricky to navigate. Gett, the app for ordering black cabs on demand, will now offer shared taxis on a dedicated route between Waterloo and Islington for the [...]
The cost of Uber’s licence to operate in London has quietly been increased by Transport for London

September 18, 2017

Uber's cost of operating in London is set to rise even further after the transport regulator pushed forward with new plans that are set to add nearly £1m to its bill. Transport for London is now planning to charge a maximum fee of £2.9m for the largest mincab firms to operate in the capital, it [...]
Is a UK house price crash coming? The majority of people think so, survey finds

September 17, 2017

The majority of people are expecting house prices to crash as concern grows around the property market. A new survey by YouGov for the Sunday Times reveals more than half think prices will crash within the next five years. And almost a quarter say the same, but within just a two year time frame. House [...]
Goldman Sachs backs UK fintech startup Neyber with massive £100m

September 12, 2017

Leading investment bank Goldman Sachs has backed a UK fintech startup to the tune of £100m. The huge new £115m round of funding for London startup Neyber comes in the form of debt and equity financing and an additional £15m comes from existing investors Gael de Boissard and Henry Ritchotte, former top executives at Credit [...]
Ofo and Urbo are the latest dockless bike-sharing startups to hit London’s streets after oBike and Mobike

September 5, 2017

Mobike, obike, o not another bike… cycle-sharing is about to get even more crowded in London. Ofo is the latest bike-sharing startup to launch in the capital, bringing 200 cycles to the streets of Hackney without the need for docking like the capital's Boris Bikes (or Santander Cycles as they're officially known). It follows a [...]
Proptech startup Habito lands £18.5m to make mortgages digital

September 3, 2017

A fintech startup focused on making mortgage applications easier has bagged millions more in funding from top investors. Atomico, the venture fund set up by Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom, led the £18.5m series B round with existing investors Ribbit Capital, Mosaic Ventures and Revolutionary (ad)Ventures also participating. It brings total funding for the startup – [...]
This group of pro-Brexit economists says leaving the EU will add £135bn to economy

August 20, 2017

A group of economists who backed Brexit have predicted that leaving Europe could add £135bn a year to Britain’s economy. Economists for Free Trade (EFT), formerly known as Economists for Brexit, calculate that a so-called hard Brexit would lead to a surge in national output worth around £5,000 a year for every household on average. [...]
How to get ahead in fintech: Four courses for studying banking disruption

August 13, 2017

There’s one word on everyone’s lips in the Square Mile and beyond these days… fintech. For the uninitiated, the portmanteau of financial technology threatens to bring the disruptive innovation felt already in industries such as retail by the likes of Amazon to the traditional world of banking. And for those looking to stay ahead of [...]

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