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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End of an era: Blackberry will no longer make its own phones

September 28, 2016

The once high-flying Blackberry has come crashing to the end of production of its own phones, saying it will outsource making any hardware to other companies. The struggling phone maker will instead focus on its software and services after failing to keep up with the rise of Apple and touch screen smartphones. The Canadian firm which [...]
Elon Musk’s totally nuts mission to Mars in nine crazy numbers

September 28, 2016

Not content with pushing the boundaries for transport on earth with Tesla, prolific entrepreneur Elon Musk is taking his work on SpaceX a step further out of this world… literally. His ambitious plan to colonise Mars were revealed in not only a highly anticipated event but also a highly detailed one in which Musk laid out ambitious estimates of [...]
London’s the best place in the world for fostering fintech as industry eyes new success measures

September 27, 2016

London is the best city in the world for fostering fintech, ahead of New York, Silicon Valley and Hong Kong – but it faces a run for its money from Singapore – as the industry pushes for better measures for assessing its contribution to the economy and the government's new industrial strategy. The two cities were ranked highest based [...]
Do you live in London’s happiest borough?

September 27, 2016

Looking to find a happy life in London? Then these are the places to move to… Residents of Redbridge, Richmond and Newham are the happiest Londoners, while those in Greenwich, Lambeth and Islington are the least content. Barnet, Kingston and Kensington also ranked highly for happiness, while Haringey, Camden and Croydon were among the lowest in the city. [...]
The US is looking to formalise policy around blockchain technology

September 26, 2016

The UK faces competition from across the pond in positioning itself as a world leader in blockchain technology. The fledgling technology that underpins bitcoin, but has far wider implications beyond digital currencies, is hitting the agenda of the US government with the creation of a cross-party working group to look at policies surrounding the technology as well as digital currencies such [...]
Forget Brexit, this startup is eyeing “Brentry” with London expansion plans

September 26, 2016

An innovative crowdfunding startup which helps people invest in up-and-coming tech startups alongside venture capitalists has unveiled plans to break into the UK, dismissing any concerns around the uncertainty of Brexit. OurCrowd, a three-year-old Israeli startup which last week landed $£72m (£56m) in funding, plans to open an office in London early next year where it will look to [...]
The surprising course that produces the highest earning grads

September 26, 2016

Business, economics, finance? These are some of the likely subjects from which you'd expect to earn a good salary after graduating, but there's one area of study which trumps them all, it turns out. Geology should be the subject of choice for anyone eyeing up a lucrative career, and specifically studying it at Imperial College will [...]
Flying cars? Uber’s working on it

September 26, 2016

And you thought driverless cars were the future? Not content with being one of the first companies to get the autonomous technology on to real-life roads, Uber's not stopping there and is already planning ahead for what the next big thing might be after that. The billion-dollar startup has revealed it's looking at technology which could produce [...]
Revealed: The nocturnal habits of 15m smartphone users

September 26, 2016

We may now be living in a world of peak smartphone but that doesn't mean we're still not totally obsessed by our devices – as this one chart shows. Astonishingly, a third of us check our phones if we wake up in the middle of the night according to new research doing everything from looking at emails and social media [...]
Netflix, Spotify and Instagram chase Apple’s coolest brand title

September 26, 2016

Apple's troubled year has failed to topple it from the top spot among the world's coolest brands, retaining its reputation as a must-have for the fifth year in a row. A half decade holding the title in the CoolBrands Index which is based on authenticity, desirability, innovation and originality comes as its tries to prove it can [...]

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