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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London bus bursts into flames at Liverpool Street station

October 2, 2016

A London bus burst into flames near Liverpool Street station on Sunday morning, blocking roads in the City. The fire ripped through the routemaster bus at around 10am this morning. London Fire Brigade attended the incident and the fire was extinguished, leaving the area cordoned off around the shell of the burnt out vehicle. It's understood [...]
Leaked documents hint at Donald Trump’s tax bill

October 2, 2016

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump may have avoided paying Federal taxes for nearly two decades, according to documents seen by the New York Times. The previously undisclosed documents leaked to the newspaper relate to 1995 when Trump reported a $916m (£706m) loss across some of his business interests. The revelations, which Trump's campaign did not confirm or deny, [...]
Brexit is go: May will turn clock back on EU laws

October 2, 2016

Theresa May has promised to turn back the clock on European laws with a new bill which will be introduced in Parliament next year. The Prime Minister will fire the starting gun on repealing EU laws first introduced more than four decades ago, with the bill expected to be announced in next year's Queen's Speech. Read [...]
LinkedIn warns of Brexit talent block (and these three sectors could be worst hit)

September 30, 2016

LinkedIn has warned that Brexit could stop UK business from accessing the best and the brightest talent from Europe, with professional services, technology and finance likely to be the hardest hit. Leaving the EU could put at risk access to top talent from across the region which accounts for 40 per cent of professional migration to the UK, [...]
London startup Lystable lands another Paypal mafia investor

September 29, 2016

London startup Lystable, fresh from raising millions from Paypal founder Peter Thiel's venture firm, has raised new cash from another member of the so-called Paypal mafia. Max Levchin's HVF, a data focused lab which is also the umbrella for two of his companies, has jumped on board adding to the $11m series A funding first revealed in [...]
Meet the five startups joining London’s newest corporate fintech lab

September 29, 2016

Five up-and-coming startups have been chosen by a London investment firm to join its newly created fintech lab. The new cohort joining Octopus Labs' 12 week programme include companies working on artificial intelligence powered financial news and financial management platforms aimed at investors and financial advisors. The director of the accelerator run by Octopus Investments, the group behind the venture capital firm [...]
Here’s how many people are using UberEats in London (and it’s expanding to zone 2)

September 29, 2016

Uber now boasts more than half a million users of UberEats in London as it expands the food delivery service further across the capital. The service which launched in June to rival homegrown Deliveroo will now be available in parts of zone 2 beyond its initial launch area of central London. In the three months since launching, the billion-dollar startup [...]
Top tech firms have formed an AI supergroup to make sure robots are good

September 29, 2016

The world's top tech firms, including Google's DeepMind, Facebook and Amazon, have formed the tech equivalent of a musical supergroup, joining forces to ensure the ethical development of artificial intelligence and "advance public understanding" of the technology which is increasingly working its way into our lives. The group, Partnership on AI, will connect academics, policy experts, and non-profits [...]
The majority of banks plan to use blockchain in the next three years

September 28, 2016

The majority of banks plan on using blockchain technology in the next three years, adopting it "dramatically faster than expected", but regulation was named as the biggest barrier by global institutions. Nearly two thirds expect to have blockchain solutions by 2019, while 15 per cent of the 200 banks surveyed by IBM and the Economist Intelligence Unit expect to have something up [...]
Bitcoin still “currency of choice” for cybercriminals… for now

September 28, 2016

Bitcoin remains the "currency of choice" for cyber criminals, but they may soon turn to newer digital currencies, Europe's top police agency has said, and even start targeting blockchain, the technology beneath it. The most well-known cryptocurrency is being used across a range of cybercrimes, including as payment on the darknet, and in DDos, phising and ransomware attacks, extorting money [...]

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