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GUEST OPINION:  “Traveling for business or leisure?”This is a question commonly heard in the hospitality industry. People either travel for work-related purposes – to meet with remote collaborators in person, attend conferences, visit suppliers, sign deals, and conduct other professional activities – or they do it to explore the world's many wonders, relax, and have fun. At least, that’s how travel was once categorised. 

COMPANY NEWS:  Corporate Digital Identity (CDI) company Encompass Corporation has appointed Andrew Dunn to lead its engineering function.

Two teenagers have been found guilty of involvement in a number of attacks that included breahes of Uber, Nvidia and Rockstar Games, the BBC reported.

Berlin has been hailed as the smartest city in Europe in 2023 by market and research firm Juniper Research.

Finnish telecommunications vendor Nokia scored a three-year deal with British telecommunications company Virgin Media O2 to supply RAN equipment from its AirScale portfolio.

Police in the UK have charged two of the seven teenagers they arrested on 25 March on the charge of being connected to the Lapsus$ group that has been in the news recently over attacks on Samsung, Microsoft and Okta.

Advertising, marketing, and public relations agency Ogilvy Australia has appointed Mark Albert as Chief Data & Analytics Officer as part of the further enhancement of its data intelligence offering.

A court battle to decide who was the inventor of bitcoin has been given the go-ahead by the London High Court, a Reuters report says.

An Apple iPhone XR caught fire during a flight in October last year after it was shoved down the side of a passenger seat, according to a report from Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Branch made public on Tuesday.

Identity platform for application teams provider Auth0 has appointed international data privacy lawyer Lucy McGrath as its first Vice President of Privacy.

The raw audio of a 75-minute phone call between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Obama era State Department attorney Cliff Johnson in August 2011 gives credence to claims made by the whistleblower organisation that a rogue former employee was behind the leak of unredacted classified State Department cables.

Email and data security vendor Mimecast has acquired messaging security provider eTorch which operates as MessageControl for an undisclosed sum.

With Saudi Arabia allowing only a small number of pilgrims to perform the annual Haj pilgrimage this year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, software developers have moved to create a means whereby Muslims can experience the pilgrimage from a safe distance.

American cloud software firm Blackbaud has confessed to having been hit by ransomware and paying a ransom as it was unable to block the attack before its data was exfiltrated, though it managed to prevent the encryption taking place.

Cyber criminals have used the Ako ransomware to attack Windows systems at the Hamilton Brown creative design agency in the UK, and released data from the company on the dark web after a ransom note did not evoke any response.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was offered a deal by the US in 2017, with California Republican Dana Rohrabacher telling him that President Donald Trump would pardon him if he denied any material he had received from a 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee did not come from the Russians.

China Mobile International has officially opened its new data centre in the UK, its first data centre in Europe and what it says is an "important addition" to its growing global network.

Giant Japanese telecommunications carrier Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation has swallowed up its Dimension Data business in the merger of its communications and security businesses into one US$11 billion global unit to be headquartered in London.

British mobile operator EE, part of the BT Group, launched the country's first 5G service on Thursday, hosting a party with the artist Stormzy staging a concert near the Tower Bridge in London.

Online giant Amazon is leading a new US$575 million Series G preferred shared funding round in food delivery service Deliveroo, as the company embarks on further expansion of its services worldwide.