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APTelecom consultants at heart of US Indo-Pacific subsea cable strategy

Emerging markets consultancy APTelecom has become a specialist in raising risk awareness and advocating good practices in the subsea cables market, in line with Washington's geostrategic interests.

Ex-Mossad officer goes undercover in online political ad agency battles

A former Mossad agent has provided compromising information to targeted ad agency AIDIgital against two of its former employees.

Robotics hacking dispute with Chinese links ropes in domain companies

Robotics company Digital Dream Labs plans to subpoena hosting companies Ionos and GitHub to regain access to its websites. Embroiled in a complex case of hacking with alleged Chinese links, it has hired corporate investigators to help it.

Google set to clinch deal with SubCom over Indo-Pacific submarine cables

A new commercial agreement should secure Google's global investments in undersea cables, just as the United States and Australia step up their efforts and investments in Pacific connectivity.

Saudi defence R&D zooms in on Boston's innovation ecosystem

The General Authority for Defense Development, created to equip Riyadh with its own sovereign defence industry, is taking shape. In order to upscale, Saudi Arabia is attempting to closely align itself with Bostonian innovation.

OSINT specialist Social Links launches revamp

The open source intelligence specialist Social Links has a new chief executive as it seeks out fresh markets.

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Kimmel in Istanbul, McArdle leaves Wallbrook, former Lebanese intelligence veteran in Washington

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

IstanbulInvestigations veteran Stephen Kimmel joins law firm

LondonAsset recovery expert leaves Wallbrook

WashingtonLebanon's ex-military attaché in Washington becomes legal investigator

New CIA deputy digital innovation lead accelerates shift to AI

Given her background, the CIA's new deputy director for digital innovation is likely to see the agency rely even more on the private sector to get ahead in AI, a vital tool in processing open source data.

Intel agencies fret over Chinese migrants arriving in US via strange new routes

More and more Chinese nationals are turning up in countries where they can travel without a visa as a first step in their bid to settle illegally in the United States or in Europe. This is alarming intelligence services in both Washington and Beijing.

How Taipei slammed brakes on US-led private special forces project

A huge project revealed by Intelligence Online for private US military companies to train an elite unit of civilian "Green Berets" in Taiwan has been halted by the Taipei authorities.

New Space intelligence troubles worry Pentagon agencies

Difficulties facing the US's flagship New Space GEOINT actors illustrate the persistent fragility of the ecosystem, on which the Pentagon has at last just released a report.

Venezuela's PDVSA hires lobbying help as asset battle heats up

The Venezuelan state-run oil firm has hired The Daschle Group to forge a public affairs strategy over the sale of some of its assets in the United States, just as US sanctions against Caracas are poised to resume on 18 April.

Pentagon contractors return to Georgia, on the front line against Russia

With funding from the Pentagon, US defence services groups are gradually returning to Tbilisi, in line with the boosting of bilateral military cooperation. Georgia's reawakening could change the situation in the Caucasus vis-à-vis Russia.