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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We’re a nation of “digital detoxers”

August 4, 2016

Feel like you're suffering online overload? You're not alone. Some 15m Britons – a third of the country – say they have gone on a so-called digital detox to escape their connected devices, according to a comprehensive new survey of the nation's digital habits. A quarter of digital detoxers said they did it for a day, while [...]
This Olympic athlete racked up a huge bill because of Pokemon Go

August 3, 2016

Athletes might be limbering up for the biggest sporting event of the year in Rio, but that's not stopping them from playing the biggest (non-sporting) game of the year in their down time. And one Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast has been so enamoured with Pokemon Go that he completely forgot the extra cost he might incur [...]
Boxer David Haye is the latest famous face investing in a startup

August 3, 2016

The boxer David Haye is the latest famous face to get into the venture business, investing in recruitment startup Syft. Heavyweight Haye has joined VC firm Profounders Capital, Lord Young – David Cameron's former enterprise adviser – and other entrepreneurs, to invest seed stage cash of £2.65m in the startup. Syft is aimed at making it easier to recruit temporary staff [...]
Saatchi ad boss Kevin Roberts resigns after gender row

August 3, 2016

One of advertising's top bosses has resigned after a storm surrounding comments he made about women working in the industry. Saatchi and Saatchi chairman Kevin Roberts, who had been put on a "leave of absence" by the agency's owner Publicis Groupe, has said he will leave the company at the start of September. He had planned to retire in May [...]
Here’s the windfall City advisers are in for from the ARM Softbank mega-deal

August 3, 2016

A handful of top City firms will land a windfall share of the multi-million pound pot of cash being splashed on advisers to one of the biggest tech deals of the year. More than £100m is being spent on advisers to Softbank's acquisition of ARM in a £24.3bn mega-deal agreed in June. Big name banks such as Goldman Sachs and Lazard are [...]
Move over iPhone fingerprint tech, the latest Samsung scans eyes

August 2, 2016

It's time for Apple's iPhone fingerprint technology to move over – at least that's what Samsung is hoping. The rival Korean smartphone maker has unveiled its latest device – the Galaxy Note 7 – which has trumped its rival's use of biometrics with eye-scanning technology. Read more: Passwords are passe: Nationwide is testing behavioural biometrics The Note [...]
Meet the most influential British innovator in the world

August 2, 2016

Demis Hassabis, the man who founded the multi-million pound artificial intelligence company acquired by Google, has been named the most influential British innovator in the world. DeepMind hit headlines in 2014 when it was bought by Google for £400m and this year did it again when its machine learning technology beat the world-leading player of the [...]
Nine up-and-coming fintech startups to watch (and Lloyds thinks so too)

August 2, 2016

A handful of startups from around the world are hoping to disrupt the big banks with new innovations after being chosen as ones to watch in the world of fintech by one of London's top accelerators and top global businesses. Startupbootcamp's fintech programme, backed by the likes of Lloyds and PwC, have chosen nine new up-and-coming early stage fintech [...]
This blockchain startup just hired a top chief from RBS’s investment bank

August 2, 2016

The blockchain startup founded by a well known former JP Morgan executive has hired another top financier, the latest in a string of hires as the company expands. Carol Mathis, the chief operating officer of Royal Bank of Scotland's investment banking arm has joined Blythe Masters' Digital Asset Holdings, the fintech firm backed by Santander, JP Morgan [...]
Just Eat bins Benelux business for millions

August 2, 2016

Just Eat has conceded defeat to a rival takeaway business in two European markets – but netting itself millions in the process. The food delivery company, which last week upgraded its earnings guidance for the second time this year, has sold off its business in Belgium and the Netherlands to rival Takeaway.com for €22.5m (£19m). Read more: Just Eat [...]

Why investors will be keeping a close eye on rugby’s Nations Championship

Why investors will be keeping a close eye on rugby’s Nations Championship

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