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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Five things we learned about the EU referendum from our Google searches

June 23, 2016

Soon, we may consciously uncouple from the rest of Europe. What's it all about? Here's what the oracle of all modern day information (Google) has to say about it. 1. It's the economy, stupid Immigration or the economy? When it comes to the referendum's effect on the country, it's apparently money that matters to us the most. Of [...]
Meet the tech foals to watch if you’re looking for growth

June 23, 2016

London is home to 14 billion-dollar valued tech firms, or unicorns. It is the digital capital of Europe, a hub unrivalled in Stockholm, Berlin, Paris or Tel Aviv. But long-term growth doesn’t come from high profile valuations, but the next generation of emerging businesses. In this year’s European Unicorn 2016 report, our analyst team has [...]
Forget unicorns, it’s all about gazelles

June 23, 2016

Investors, founders and journalists tend to become animated when discussing unicorns, those rare tech startups valued at over $1bn. Some consider these companies the pinnacle of success, while others claim they represent market froth and an impending correction. Research released this week by GP Bullhound found that in 2016 Europe as a whole has seven [...]
I’m a migrant and entrepreneur: We all deserve better than Brexit

June 23, 2016

I’m a Polish migrant and a successful entrepreneur, and I proudly call London home. Having lived in Krakow, Dublin and New York, it was London’s dynamic intersection of cultures from all over the world (and the EU in particular) that made me want to put down roots here. But sadly that dynamism has started to ebb away [...]
This unicorn is leaping on its IPO

June 23, 2016

Tech bubble? What tech bubble? Twilio shares have surged on its IPO, leaping as much as 70 per cent on its debut on the New York Stock Exchange. Shares surged as high as $25.50 after pricing at $15 per share, giving it a market capitalisation of more than $2bn Read more: These are the seven [...]
Especially for EU: The ultimate referendum playlist

June 23, 2016

What's that you hear? The sound of impending Brexit? No that'll be the rain and flooding… but to drown that out, we've asked Spotify to create the ultimate playlist to accompany polling day – and even results morning if you're still battling through. Of course, this is an exercise in puns rather than musical taste, and City [...]
Blackberry losses grow ahead of crunch year for smartphones

June 23, 2016

Blackberry revenue has slumped again as it turns towards software and away from the devices that made it a household name. The figures Blackberry's losses climbed to $670m for the first quarter, or $1.28 per share compared to a 10 cents per share loss in the same quarter last year and 15 cents per share on [...]
#DogsAtPollingStations is the referendum light relief we need

June 23, 2016

People are battling rain, lightning, flooding, train chaos and huge queues in some areas to make it to the polling stations to cast their vote in the EU referendum – and so are many a politically minded dog. If there's a vote, you can be sure there'll be dogs at polling stations, or #DogsAtPollingStations that dog owners (and dog lovers in [...]
Going, going, gone: Harris and Hoole sale marks end of Tesco ambitions

June 23, 2016

First Giraffe, then Dobbies, now it's Harris and Hoole which Tesco has sold off in its efforts to get back to what it's good at (being a supermarket). The sale marks the last of the major assets that are not part of its core retailing to go, and a curtailing of previous ambitions to expand beyond [...]
Quiz: How well do you know your EU referendum gaffes?

June 23, 2016

It's not a British political campaign without a few gaffes and the EU referendum has been no different. Amid the throwing around of speculative numbers from both sides of the camp – which frankly, no one knows the veracity of because there's a lot of guesstimating involved – there were some slip ups from both sides. [custom id="161"] [...]

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