Thomas Cook Britain’s largest travel group ceased all its operations on 23rd September this year and effectively went into liquidation. It has also been revealed that former boss Manny Fontenla-Novoa had been paid a bonus of 5 million GBP by its audit firm known as EY. It had been heavily criticized for its merger with…
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Mega Asia Pacific pact to be signed in 2020 says Thailand
According to Thailand, Southeast Nations are committed to signing a new trade pact by 2020. Under this pact, one third of the global GDP will be covered and big trade bloc in the world would emerge. A lot of people were in hope that a conclusive decision will be made on the long time negotiations…
LinkedIn And Uber Hackers Confess To Extortion And Hacking
The attackers who infiltrated LinkedIn-controlled Lynda.com’s and Uber’s Amazon web servers have confessed in federal court of California to charges of extortion conspiracy and computer hacking. Brandon Glover (Florida resident) and Vasile Mereacre (Canadian national) were indicted last year for pinching data from LinkedIn training website Lynda.com in a hack that impacted 55,000 accounts. It…
New Platform Of GoFundMe Is Just For Nonprofits And Charities
The GoFundMe service has been used to crowdfund everything from back payments of royalties for a typical early hip hop track to payments for employees of U.S. government at the time of the latest shutdown. Shortly, the website will support even more charitable offering, with a latest fundraising service for nonprofit agencies. The service, dubbed…
Los Angeles Fire Department Needs To Grow Its Drone Fleet 2 Times
It is not just law enforcement getting success using drones. The Battalion Chief Richard Field of Los Angeles Fire Department claimed to the media that he aimed to increase the drone fleet by 2 times just 5 Months after an association with DJI started. Besides the current 11 drones, the new ones might offer assistance…
Rocket startup Firefly joins hands with Aerojet Rocketdyne
Startup rocket firm Firefly announced on October 18, 2019 of entering into a partnership with Aerojet Rocketdyne. The official announcement mentioned the two are about to begin with their first joint project which is 3D printing in the Reaper engines of Firefly. Director at Firefly’s commercial business development, Eric Salwan enthusiastically said that the collaboration…
Libra Association might peg their cryptocurrencies to the national currencies
Willingness has been shown by the social media giant to reverse its course on the plans it has to tie their digital currency projects to synthetic currencies which are tied to a global currency basket. It has been reported that the head of the Libra project for Facebook, David Marcus had told a group of…
IAF gears up for the upcoming conference in Washington
International Astronautical Federation has been preparing for hosting one of the largest conferences ever happened. Organizers have however been dealing with several geopolitical as well as political issues regarding the event. This is the 70th year of International Astronautical Congress which would officially initiate on October 21, 2019. Above 6300 people have registered to be…
Viasat CEO discusses about ViaSat-4, says Boeing experience will help
During an event, one of the spokesperson of Viasat stated that co-building ViaSat-3 with Boeing has provided such an experience to the Company which can be leveraged to increase overall capacity with ViaSat-4 satellite. Mark Dankberg stated that it is the very first time that the satellite constellation will get integrated in that manner. He…
US tariff puts UK luxury brands at massive disadvantage over EU
In the recent event,a group which was representing 250 luxury brands from United Kingdom got in between US and EU’s trade spat and will launch offensive charm in the US. The trade mission by Walpole willstart on Monday. In comparison to initial US tariff, at present the stakes have increased tremendous amount. The tariff that…