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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“Paypal of renting” proptech startup Goodlord just landed millions more from investors Ribbit Capital, LocalGlobal and Global Founders Capital

March 15, 2017

A startup aiming to be the Paypal of renting, making lettings easier for tenants, landlords and agents, has landed millions more in funding from top investors. Goodlord has landed £7.2m from Silicon Valley's Ribbit Capital and existing investors: Robin Klein's LocalGlobal and Global Founders Capital, the fund founded by Rocket Internet's Samwer brothers, following on from £2m raised in May [...]
Google, Facebook and Twitter won’t tell MPs how many staff moderate content in a major grilling by the Home Affairs Select Committee

March 14, 2017

Several of the world's biggest tech companies faced a major grilling from MPs over their efforts to tackle online abuse and hate crime as German authorities pushed further, threatening them with multimillion pound fines over failures. Top executives from Google, Facebook and Twitter faced a lashing from MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee for failing to do enough [...]
Now fintech startup Revolut is getting into loans

March 14, 2017

Fintech startup Revolut has partnered with a peer-to-peer lender to offer loans to users, its newest product in addition to a current account and money transfers. With Lending Works, it will offer loans of up to £5,000 at a rate of 9.9 per cent APR over 12 months. The credit facility is instant, if approved, with [...]
Facebook, Twitter and Google could face €50m fines for fake news and hate speech under German law proposals

March 14, 2017

German lawmakers have slammed Facebook and Twitter for their failure to tackle content which breaks the law, hate speech posted on the sites, and so-called fake news that's defamatory, warning of financial penalties for companies which do not tackle the problem. Draft laws proposed today would bring in fines of up to €50m (£44m) for the companies failing [...]
Gin is in, dumb phones are out: Meet the new ONS basket of goods for measuring inflation

March 14, 2017

Poor old Nokia… no sooner has it made a comeback with the surprisingly popular 3310 than bean counters decide such "dumb phones" should be ditched from the shopping basket used to measure how prices are rising in the UK. The Office for National Statistics has revealed its annual update to its basket of goods for measuring inflation, which can be [...]
Innovation never stops: What’s next for the tech startups in Bird & Bird’s Digital Innovators showcase pushing boundaries?

March 14, 2017

When Bird & Bird and City A.M. sought to unearth, and then celebrate, the most innovative digital companies shaking up the worlds of finance, health, education, media and security, we knew the collective 20 companies we found were an outstanding demonstration of the UK’s leadership in cutting edge technology. Now, just four months on, the visionary founders [...]
Businesses must put more cash into commercialising top tech R&D from universities, say MPs

March 13, 2017

Businesses have been told to increase their investment in the world-class research and development which goes on in UK universities by MPs, to bring innovations to market and bring it in line with other countries. Members of the science and technology committee have called for a greater focus on the demands of business rather than the supply of [...]
Mobileye share price soars as Intel’s $15.3bn acquisition confirmed

March 13, 2017

Intel has snapped up an Isreali technology firm specialising in driverless car tech in a multi-billion dollar deal to accelerate its automotive plans. Shares of Mobileye shot up more than 30 per cent in pre-market trading on the New York Stock Exchange after reports of the deal initially serviced. Mobileye, which works on technology for driverless cars, has [...]
Lloyds Banking Group is about to outsource nearly 2,000 tech jobs to IBM

March 13, 2017

Lloyds is about to outsource nearly 2,000 tech jobs to IBM, according to the union representing the bank's workers, in a billion pound deal that will save cash in the long term. The bank and the tech giant are on the verge of agreeing a seven year deal worth £1.3bn that would see 1,900 IT staff [...]
SSE is hiking electricity prices as energy firm follows Npower, EDF, Eon and Scottish Power

March 13, 2017

Customers of SSE can expect a rise in their electricity bill as the energy company announces its first price rise in three years. A rise of 14.9 per cent will kick in from 28 April due to the increasing price of wholesale electricity across the market. On average, it expects customers' electric bills on a [...]

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