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Mobile technology and targeted marketing barge in on holidays

November 2, 2015 publisher 12-5-percent, brussels, decorated-yard, devices, euromonitor, global-online, global-trends, mobile, mobile-travel, sarah-young, shopping-tips, take-break, through-guide, travel, travel-sales

By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) – Thumbing through guide books for restaurant and shopping tips while on holiday could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to mobile travel technology that knows where you are and what you like and can ping you personalized recommendations. People are increasingly turning to their mobile phones to book flights, hotels and make other travel-related purchases, with $96 billion, or 12.5 percent of global online travel sales, made via the devices in 2014, according to a report by Euromonitor International. Using data from those purchases, travel providers will soon be pushing personalized options for hotels and restaurants via mobile devices, Euromonitor's WTM Global Trends Report 2015 forecast

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U.S. and UK to test financial cyber-security later this month

November 2, 2015 admin attack-on-their, brussels, global-trends, its-regulators, london, minister-david, responses, said-on-monday, sarah-young, take-break, their-financial, their-responses, travel, united-states

The United States and Britain will test later this month how its regulators would respond if their financial sectors suffered a major cyber-attack or broader IT problems, a British official said on Monday. The test, for which no date has yet been set, will focus on how regulators for the world's two biggest financial centers in New York and London communicate in an emergency, a spokesman for British government cyber-security body CERT-UK said.

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Optimal Payments says investigating data breach allegations

October 29, 2015 publisher breaches-had, british, brussels, data, global-trends, london, optimal, the-allegations, the-data, the-public, their-responses

(Reuters) – British mobile payments company Optimal Payments Plc said it was investigating allegations that personal data belonging to some of its customers had been compromised and was available in the public domain. The company said the allegations were that the data breaches had occurred at two of its units in 2012 or earlier.

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