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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The Bank of England’s chief economist has “sympathy for savers” after rate cut

August 14, 2016

One of the Bank of England's senior policy-makers has said he has "enormous" sympathy for savers, after the central bank slashed interest rates in the wake of the Brexit vote. Andy Haldane, one of nine members of the BoE's rate-setting monetary policy committee who voted in favour of cutting rates even further from their already historic low, said [...]
Microsoft splashes cash on video game streaming startup Beam

August 11, 2016

Microsoft is getting in on the live games streaming action with its latest acquisition. The tech giant – fresh from snapping up LinkedIn in a $26bn (£20.1bn) deal – has acquired Beam, a Seattle-based startup which live streams video games. Read more: YouTube has launched its own live gaming service It will be rolled into Microsoft's Xbox operations, and [...]
Digital challenger bank Mondo just got its banking licence

August 11, 2016

Another new challenger bank has been given the green light by the financial regulator in an attempt to give the big banks a run for their money. Digital challenger Mondo, a smartphone-only app, has been granted a banking licence which gives it free-reign to offer customers the full range of services offered by the traditional high street banks – although it [...]
Watch this stunning captain’s-eye view of landing a plane in London

August 11, 2016

Every time you think you've seen the capital from every possible angle – whether it's from space, or from the perspective of someone jumping from one of its skyscrapers – a new view comes along, putting London in an entirely new perspective. The latest comes in the form of a video which puts you in the cockpit [...]
Former business minister calls for BT Openreach split

August 11, 2016

BT is not doing enough to give customers access to high speed internet and should be split up, according to the former business minister Anna Soubry who has called for "radical action" to deliver super fast broadband across Britain. The telecoms firm last week dodged a bullet when the regulator, which pushed further reforms of Openreach [...]
A Leonardo DiCaprio-backed startup is bringing mattress innovation to the UK

August 11, 2016

Prepare for your sleep to be disrupted – but in a good way. A US startup with celebrity backing has launched in the UK and is hoping to shake up how Brits buy mattresses and the way we sleep. Casper, a two-year-old startup with multi-million dollar investment from Leonardo DiCaprio as well as venture capital [...]
These are the 20 richest billionaires in tech

August 10, 2016

The world's wealthiest tech billionaires have added another $50bn to their wealth over the past year, while titans Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Ma climbed the ranks. Bill Gates retained his long-standing title as the world's richest tech billionaire, the latest rich list compiled by Forbes reveals, despite a $1.6bn decline in his wealth since 2015. Read more: Meet [...]
This million dollar mattress startup wants to bed Brits

August 10, 2016

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UK corporate venture capital investment hits record high

August 10, 2016

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The Apple Watch 2 might be coming this year

August 9, 2016

An updated version of Apple's first ever wearable and its newest device, the Apple Watch, could be coming as soon as this year, one analyst predicts. The Apple Watch 2 is expected to hit wrists by the end of the year, said Ming-Chi Kuo, an analysts at KGI and known as one of the most well informed [...]

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