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Tech news in less than 5 minutes – October 2021 - THE EDGE SINGAPORE

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Tech news in less than 5 minutes – October 2021

Bite-sized news on acquiring talent, tech support scam, podcasts to listen to and simplifying app development.

Cybersecurity

Watch out! Your next travel booking might turn out to be a fraud

SINGPORE (June 12): Cybercriminals are capitalising on consumers’ risky holiday booking habits for their favourite destinations, according to McAfee.

1MDB Watch

Insolvent 1MDB unable to repay debt as director warns of scam

(May 24): Troubles at Malaysia’s state investment company 1MDB deepened as its officials told the government the fund is insolvent and unable to repay debts that could amount to almost US$7 billion ($9.40 billion) over the next five years.

In print this week

How Trump consultants exploited the Facebook data of millions

(Mar 26): As the upstart voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica prepared to wade into the 2014 American midterm elections, it had a problem. The firm had secured a US$15 million investment from Robert Mercer, the wealthy Republican donor, and wooed h
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Callers for dollars: Inside India's scam call centres

MUMBAI (Nov 30): In late September, a woman in National City, California, received a voice message on her phone saying she was in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over "tax evasion or tax fraud".
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