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The Internet can be described as an iceberg: the websites and services most people use on a regular basis are the tip sticking out of the water, and there’s an entire other, much larger world submerged below. This underwater portion generally goes by two names – the deep web and the dark net.…

BIG data means big money, especially for telecoms and internet companies. However, the fact that they are holding, collating, processing and monetising so much data makes heavy weather for IT-based anti-fraud systems. As a result, the siren song of cloud-based anti-fraud programmes is becoming increasingly attractive as companies look to scale up their protection to take account of growing datasets.…

THE SPANISH book sector has declared that it is optimistic about growth in sales at its annual LIBER International Book Fair, which wrapped up on Friday (Oct 14). A statement from the organisers said that there was a “positive feeling about the sector’s upswing”.…

Indonesia’s personal care product sector is faring well at first glance, with domestic sales more than doubling in size in value terms over the past five years. Multinational companies see it as a lucrative market, while local firms also seem to hold their own.…

Earlier this year Italian pasta giant Barilla presented its latest technological innovation: a next generation 3D printer that swaps ink for pasta dough and is able to make unique pasta shapes in just minutes.

Barilla is among the world’s first food producers to leverage the latest digital technologies and apply them to food production.…

THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is helping its member states design safe operation rules for drones, even though many such aircraft and their systems operate domestically and are hence beyond ICAO’s usual cross-border remit.

“States are saying we all need help and want this to be harmonised,” said Leslie Cary, the ICAO air navigation bureau’s remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) programme manager.…

European Union (EU) lawmakers in a key European Parliament committee are split over how to amend proposed reforms to the 28 country bloc’s automotive type approval controls. These members of the parliament’s internal market and consumer protection committee discussed on Thursday (September 29) changes suggested by British Conservative MEP Dan Dalton on proposals from the EU executive, the European Commission, to overhaul EU type approval rules – its key goal is making them sufficiently tight to prevent a repeat of the Dieselgate scandal where emissions controls were circumvented.…

TURKEY’S carpet sector continues to thrive according to recent trade data, with the industry association saying the sector was not harmed by the recent attempted military coup against the elected government.

According to recent figures from the European Apparel and Textile Confederation, Euratex, Turkey was once again Europe’s leading supplier of carpets in 2015, with a 3.5% year-on-year increase in sales from 2014, to EUR378 million last year.…

The European Union’s (EU) executive, the European Commission, will next month file suit against EU member state governments over their failure to act on their response to the ‘dieselgate’ emissions cheating scandal. The EU internal market, industry, entrepreneurship and SMEs Commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska told the European Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector (EMIS) on Monday (September 12): “You will definitely see some infringement procedures next month.”…

Concerns about the US-European Union (EU) Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP) have abated, particularly regarding oversight and data-sharing issues. But the issue remains controversial, with a potential EU version of the system still being debated within the EU executive, the European Commission, whether to be standalone or complementary to the USA-promoted TFTP.…