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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Investors are pleased with TalkTalk’s decent start to the year

July 20, 2016

TalkTalk shares jumped more than four per cent in early trading as it reported a solid start to the year. The figures First quarter revenue for the three months to the end of June were flat year-on-year It lost 9,000 broadband customers and 23,000 TV customers, but added 48,000 mobile users and 36,000 Fibre consumers. Its [...]
Uber’s heading to the UK courts over workers’ rights

July 20, 2016

Uber and its drivers will head to court today to battle it out in a legal case over workers' rights. The hearing at an employment tribunal is due to begin in London and is expected to rule on the status of some Uber drivers in the first case of its kind in the UK. The action [...]
Liberty Global remains committed to Virgin broadband investment post-Brexit

July 20, 2016

Virgin Media owner Liberty Global remains committed to investing in the UK following the vote for Brexit and will begin the next stage of a multi-billion pound investment in the UK's broadband infrastructure network. Nearly half a million new premises in London will get superfast broadband by 2018, creating 500 new jobs by the end of this [...]
Article 50 won’t be invoked this year

July 19, 2016

The official signal of Britain leaving the EU will not be given this year, the government has said. Article 50 will not be triggered in 2016, lawyers acting on behalf of the government told the high court this morning at the start of a legal battle over the matter. Read more: Why lawyers are in [...]
X damning things MPs said about BT’s broadband

July 19, 2016

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“Snoopers’ Charter” data collection rules ok if proportionate, says European court

July 19, 2016

A UK law requiring companies to keep up to a years worth of data on people's emails, phone calls and web activities is okay – as long as it "satisfies strict requirements" – according to a preliminary ruling from the European courts . The legal case, which has implications for the future legislation on monitoring communications, was brought by Labour deputy leader Tom Watson and [...]
If you go down to the woods today… you might find a Google robot

July 19, 2016

A woman walking her dog was in for a surprise when she came across something a little more unusual also out for a stroll. It's not every day that you stumble across one of the biggest companies in the world testing out their robot technology, but that's exactly what happened – and she caught it [...]
MPs slam BT: “Put house in order or face split”

July 19, 2016

BT has been told to put its "house in order" or face a split by a leading group of MPs. The telecoms firm has been accused of "significantly under investing" in its Openreach broadband, potentially to the tune of millions of pounds a year and of favouring "interests and priorities" of shareholders over customers. An investigation [...]
Cheers! Now Deliveroo’s delivering wine, beer and cocktails

July 19, 2016

Drinkers rejoice: food delivery startup Deliveroo is expanding beyond the simple delivery of food and into into takeaway alcohol, including wine, craft beer and cocktails. The startup backed by top investors has inked new deals with Majestic Wines and Brewdog among others to bring the tipples straight to people's doors after testing out the drinks-only and [...]
Barclays chief warns of UK digital deficit

July 19, 2016

The UK is beating its rivals when it comes to embracing digital technology but risks being usurped by smaller countries, putting the country’s economic growth and productivity at risk, Barclays’ top boss in Britain has warned. “We urgently need to secure London and the UK as the world’s pre-eminent powerhouse of tech innovation as well [...]

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