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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Businesses are stockpiling bitcoin to pay hacking ransoms

June 7, 2016

Businesses are preparing for the threat of a cyber attack by stocking up on digital currencies such as bitcoin to pay hackers' ransoms, new research reveals. A third of firms in the UK are stockpiling in the event of such a cyber attack and the country's largest firms are willing to pay more than £50,000 [...]
Deutsche Bank is ditching its plans for a digital bank

June 6, 2016

Digital challenger banks can breath a sigh of relief – competition just got a little less crowded. Deutsche Bank was moving with the times with its plans for a new digital bank, revealed late last year in a board reshuffle. Now, it's had a change of heart and has ditched plans for the new venture, a [...]
More money for proptech: HouseSimple raises £13m from Carphone Warehouse boss

June 6, 2016

More money is flowing into up and coming property technology (proptech) companies, with the founder of Carphone Warehouse leading a new multimillion pound investment in online estate agent HouseSimple. Sir Charles Dunstone lead the £13m funding in the firm which ditches the high cost of traditional agency fees, along with his business partner Roger Taylor. An institutional investor [...]
More people want to work at Goldman Sachs than live in these six countries

June 6, 2016

If you thought the market for jobs at top institutions was tough, take a moment to consider the prospects of any young student with hopes and dreams of working at Goldman Sachs. New figures reveal that an astonishing quarter of a million students have applied to the top investment bank for a position. And that's just this year [...]
An ex-Nasa chief has revealed a stealth startup that’s built “military-grade” Apple Siri voice recognition technology

June 6, 2016

A startup founded by a former top boss at Nasa has emerged from so-called stealth mode with technology that claims to beat Apple, Google and Microsoft's voice recognition technology. Dan Goldin, who spent nearly all of the 1990s leading Nasa, has revealed KnuEdge, a machine learning company that already boasts Fortune 500 clients and $100m in private funding despite its under the radar nature [...]
Stressed out Brits want robots and virtual assistants to pick up the slack

June 6, 2016

Overloaded Brits are increasingly willing to let technology pick up the slack of modern life, with more than half of us happy to hand over control to robots and virtual assistants. Making appointments and getting a smart coffee machine to order refills are just some of the tasks which people said they were willing to give up to technology, according to a global survey [...]
Gove slams investment banks over EU relationship

June 5, 2016

Michael Gove has fired shots at investment banks and big business in the midst of EU referendum campaigning, saying the EU is rigged in their favour. One of the most high profile campaigners for leaving the EU alongside Boris Johnson, Gove said that big banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley calling the shots in [...]
It’s unlikely Switzerland will be paying every citizen a basic income

June 5, 2016

You might be surprised to find Britain isn't the only country in Europe that's in the throes of a referendum. Switzerland is having its own vote on whether it should pay everyone in the country a basic income rather than running a complicated welfare system – and the initial results are in, according to the pollsters. The wealthy [...]
Brexit odds cut again as Leave confidence grows

June 5, 2016

Odds of Brexit have been shortened again as confidence in a vote to leave Europe grows. The likelihood of Britain leaving the EU has increased to 29 per cent, or odds of 9/4, according to Ladbrokes. Remaining a part of the bloc is still the most likely outcome in the 23 June referendum, however, that has shrunk, with [...]
Sir John Major is very angry at the Brexit campaign

June 5, 2016

Former Prime Minister Sir John Major has launched a scathing attack on the Leave campaign accusing it of misleading people. A supporter of remaining in Europe, Major accused the Leave campaign of being "dishonest" and "verging on the squalid". "I'm not prepared to give the benefit of the doubt [to the Leave campaign]… this is a deceitful campaign," [...]

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