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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MPs call for “urgent” decision on airport expansion

July 24, 2016

A final decision on expanding the UK's airport capacity needs to be made "urgently", a group of MPs have said, with further delay putting the economy at risk. A report from the British Infrastrucutre Group (BIG), a cross-party group led by Grant Shapps, urged Theresa May to make a decision "to show the new leadership's mettle". Read more: Heathrow [...]
More proof smartwatches are not a thing as Apple Watch sales stall

July 21, 2016

Is that the sound of the death of smartwatches we hear? 2015 may have been the year of the much-hyped device – 2016 is certainly not. Smartwatch shipments declined for the first time ever, according to new data from analyst firm IDC, down by more than a third year-on-year. Shipments in the second quarter of the year stood [...]
Banking fraud is the biggest cyber crime in Britain

July 21, 2016

Banking fraud is the biggest cyber crime in the UK, accounting for two in every five of the nearly six million online crime incidents recorded over the past year. There were 2.5m online crimes involving banking; and credit accounts, while one million involved other types of fraud such as online shopping, new figures reveal. There were a further two [...]
Another challenger bank just got its banking licence

July 21, 2016

The challenger bank race is hotting up as another startup is granted a banking licence. Germany’s Number 26 has been fully approved by authorities to operate as a bank across Europe, and plans to launch in the UK imminently. The three-year-old fintech startup backed by billionaire Paypal founder Peter Thiel now has the stamp of [...]
Mastercard snaps up Vocalink giving banks a £700m windfall

July 21, 2016

Mastercard has snapped up a majority stake in Vocalink, the payments processor that probably handles your salary payment, in a £700m deal giving the biggest UK banks a windfall. The deal comes after the UK regulator urged banks to sell their stake in Vocalink, the system which governs trillions of payments in the UK, from bacs salaries to [...]
ARM deal gives handy profit to Mr May’s City firm

July 20, 2016

The billion pound takeover deal for ARM by Softbank is a nice hand for the fund manager which employs the new Prime Minister's other half. Capital Group, where Theresa May's husband Philip works as a client manager (but doesn't manage any funds), is one of the largest shareholders in the British tech company which is being taken over by [...]
Facebook Messenger now has one billion users

July 20, 2016

Facebook has passed a seriously big milestone with Messenger, surpassing one billion users. The chat app launched in 2014 and had already hit 800m users in January this year. That means it signed up 200m in around seven months. "There's a lot more to do — and a lot more coming soon — but this is [...]
Peter Thiel’s just plunged more cash into this fintech startup

July 20, 2016

Renowned investor Peter Thiel is ploughing more cash into a fintech startup he first invested in earlier this year. Retail banking platform Deposit Solutions has raised €15m in a new funding round from top investors, valuing the firm at €110m. In addition to Thiel, the Hamburg-founded fintech firm landed investment from another prior investor, FinLab, [...]
VCs held off on startup investments because of Brexit

July 20, 2016

The figures are in: and they show that in the build up to the EU referendum, venture capital investors held off on putting their cash into startups. VC investment "plummeted" 40 per cent according to the latest report from CB Insights and KPMG. Some $2.8bn went into VC-backed firms in Europe, of which the UK grabs the biggest share, dipping below [...]
Brace yourself: Musk’s pulling all-nighter on top secret Tesla masterplan

July 20, 2016

Fans of Elon Musk and Tesla, prepare yourself – the top entrepreneur and visionary thinker will delight you with a new plan for the electric car company. Musk teased the "top secret masterplan, part two" on Twitter last week, but has kept everyone guessing about what it might contain. Working on Top Secret Tesla Masterplan, Part 2. Hoping to [...]

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