In the ice-cold cargo hold of a pirate tuna vessel in the Pacific, I have somehow lost my shoe. Frozen tuna fins slice my unshod foot as I fumble around on all fours, reaching into the gigantic, frigid pile. I had boarded the pirate ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, fish
Fugitive document leaker Edward Snowden has formally applied for political asylum in Russia after spending eight days in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. The Reuters news agency quoted an unnamed Russian immigration ...
Tags: NSA, Edward Snowden, Russia
Edward Snowden says he leaked information to show the extent to which citizens were spied on in the US. Picture: AP / The Guardian Source: AP The US Justice Department has charged former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden ...
Global insurance and reinsurance company XL Group has named Valérie Devaux - Piquer as the new casualty underwriting manager, Europe, Reinsurance, effective from 1 September 2013. Based in Paris, France, she will succeed Dieter ...
US internet retailer Amazon is opening a central London office, bringing 1,600 jobs to the capital. Amazon will move several hundred existing employees from the company's current offices in Slough to the new 12-storey, 210,000 sq ft ...
Tags: UK, Amazon, Computer Products
Google's rivals have been given one month to assess the search giant's proposed antitrust remedies, the European Commission announced Thursday. The Commission, the E.U.'s regulatory and executive body, has published Google's proposals to ...
Tags: EU Publishes, Google
AIM, the industry association and worldwide authority on bar code, RFID, RTLS and mobile computing, has selected Argonne National Laboratory to receive the 2013 Active RFID Award. This marks the inaugural year for the award, established by ...
Tags: RFID, Nuclear Facility, Textile
High unemployment and the continued slowdown in economic growth in the Southern European crisis countries in particular is still hampering economic development in the European Union (EU). While the countries moving towards recovery are ...
Tags: GFK Consumer Climate, unemployment
A GLOBAL rights group has launched a campaign to ban Terminator-style "killer robots" amid fears the rise of drone warfare could lead to machines with the power to make their own decisions about killing humans. Human Rights Watch said it ...
Tags: Robot, Electronics
Why WestHolland? With almost 500 million residents, and a purchasing power second to none, Europe is one of the world's most important business and consumer markets. Dutch know-how and expertise in international trade and commerce make ...
Tags: Service, Business cooperation
A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to punish Chinese Internet company Baidu for blocking pro-democracy works on its search engine. One legal expert said the case was more of a publicity stunt than an actual legal challenge to ...
Tags: U.S.Censorship, Baidu, Internet
Hong Kong reinsurer, Peak Reinsurance (Peak Re) has selected AIR Worldwide's catastrophe modeling solutions to manage its catastrophe risk in the Asia-Pacific market. Equipped with a comprehensive catalog of simulated storms, the ...
New legislation in Congress would establish a government task force to monitor domestic and overseas policy proposals that could threaten Internet freedom. The Global Free Internet Act, introduced Tuesday by Rep. Zoe Lofgren and three ...
Tags: Internet freedom, legislation, US
Romanian security company BitDefender today said it has traced the cyber-espionage malware "MiniDuke" back to June 2011, more than a year and a half before the campaign was uncovered. BitDefender found the malware by digging through its ...
Tags: BitDefender, MiniDuke, espionage malware
New York base reinsurer, Transatlantic Holdings (TransRe) has appointed Robert Saville as the new senior vice president and head of Underwriting for the Asia-Pacific region. Saville, who holds more than 22 years of reinsurance experience, ...
Tags: Underwriting Head, Singapore Operations, Transatlantic Holdings