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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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‘Team Juncker’ ham for cameras to push EU digital market

May 6, 2015 admin 249-million, alastair, brussels, concerns, digital, europe, european, quarter-ended, really-get, rose-as-much, silicon-valley, wednesday, year-earlier

By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Can a bunch of graying politicians in Brussels really get with it and give Europe a revolutionary open market in digital technology? Jean-Claude Juncker and other EU executives poked fun at their own generation in an online video posted on Twitter on Wednesday to try and convince younger Europeans that they can.

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EU says Google hurt consumers and competitors in Internet search case

April 15, 2015 creative brussels, european-union, hazel-grace, houston, internet, named-the-girls, news-conference, olivia-marie, ounces-at-birth, search-engine, search-results, texas, vestager

The European Union accused Google Inc on Wednesday of cheating consumers and competitors by distorting Web search results to favor its own shopping service, after a five-year investigation that could change the rules for business online. Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said Google, which dominates Internet search engine markets worldwide, had been sent a Statement of Objections – effectively a charge sheet – to which it has 10 weeks to respond.

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Confidential FTC report found Google anticompetitive tactics: WSJ

March 19, 2015 creative agency-settled, antitrust-rules, brussels, bureau-argued, federal-trade, illegally-took, internet, local-bourses, make-it-easier, patriot, reserve, search-engine, search-page, shares-on-local, street

Key staff members at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission were in favor of suing Google Inc for violating antitrust rules before the agency settled its investigation in 2013, according a confidential report cited by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. The report by the staff of the FTC's competition bureau argued that the owner of the world's No

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BMW fixes security flaw in its in-car software

January 30, 2015 admin bmw, brussels, cars-equipped, impede-the-car, luxury-carmaker, other-services, problem, said-officials, said-on-friday, services, software-using

German luxury carmaker BMW has fixed a security flaw that could have allowed hackers to unlock the doors of up to 2.2 million Rolls-Royce, Mini and BMW vehicles, it said on Friday. BMW said officials at German motorist association ADAC had identified the problem, which affected cars equipped with the company's ConnectedDrive software using on-board SIM cards — the chips used to identify authorized users of mobile devices. BMW drivers can use the software and SIM cards to activate door locking mechanisms, as well as a range of other services including real-time traffic information, online entertainment and air conditioning.

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Google to change privacy policy after investigation by UK data watchdog

January 30, 2015 admin better-inform, bmw, brussels, further-steps, handles-their, luxury-carmaker, office, other-services, personal, photo, said-on-friday, services, software-using, steps

Search engine Google has agreed to better inform users about how it handles their personal information after an investigation by Britain's data protection regulator found its privacy policy was too vague. The Information Commissioner's Office said in a statement that it required Google to sign a “formal undertaking” that it would make the changes by June 30 and take further steps in the next two years. The ICO investigation stems from a privacy policy implemented by Google in March 2012 that consolidated some 70 existing privacy policies into one and pooled data collected on individual users across its services, including YouTube, Gmail and its social network Google+.