The French corporate world's needs with regard security and business intelligence have grown and changed in recent times. The needs form part of corporate thinking at the highest executive level. Faced with fresh demands, the first business intelligence firms established [.
This year is being marked by an infatuation of venture capital funds for Homeland Security technologies. Alongside the sector's a seed capital fund stands out for being exclusively financed by the Pentagon: its acronym is CCAT.
Formed to try cases of organized crime, money-laundering and terrorism, Switzerland's Federal Police Court opened its doors with extreme discretion [...]
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The uproar that greeted last week's announcement that John Scarlett, the man who got Tony Blair off the hook concerning [...]
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Published just before the forthcoming visit to Paris of Saudi Arabia's crown prince Abdallah bin Abdulaziz, a book entitled "La [...]
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After selling Lafayette-type frigates (King Ding class) to Taiwan in the 1990s, France's Thales is now partly equipping mainland China's Maanshan-class stealth frigates.
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Ten American companies shared 42% of all contracts awarded by the DHS in 2003.
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Increasingly involved in the fighting in Iraq, Iran has set up a "supervisory unit" to help organize support for the Mehdi Army.
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The boss of the Chinese Army's political department, general Xu Caihou, flew to Cuba in mid-April for talks with his counter-part in the Cuban army, Sixto Batista Santana.
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Following a terrorist assault that killed five Westerners in the port of Yanbu on May 1, the Saudi Arabian authorities are bracing for attacks against their oil installations.
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Named chairman last October of the prestigious Japan Foundation that [...]
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Present in Iraq since last October (IOL 464), Earthwind Holding [...]
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In a book to be published next month by Editions [...]
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For the first time the metropolitan Lavr, head of the [...]
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Ministers from France, the United Kingdom and Ireland submitted a [...]
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Greece will need to change its budgetary practices to include its arms purchases more accurately when presenting its deficit figures to the EU. Could this throw offset agreements out of kilter?
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Vivendi and the Recording industry Association of America (RIAA) have just hired a firm set up by former FBI investigators to conduct operations against piracy and the downloading of music files.
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The managing director of Carlyle Europe, Jean-Pierre Millet, has a tough row to hoe to burnish his firm's image in an unfavorable political climate.
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The no-holds-barred fight between French and Belgians for the control of Electrabel, the leading power producer in the Benelux countries, seems to have included destabilization campaigns and espionage.
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The organizers of the Olympic Games in Athens have contacted [...]
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Intelligence Online has learned that Jean-Yves Helmer, head of the [...]
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Twenty five engineers from the Iraqi oil minister are following [...]
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With a ban on non-Russians buying shares in Gazprom soon [...]
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The best story is certainly that of an intelligence and [...]
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The U.S. firm Kroll intends to open an office in [...]
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Two heavyweights from the intelligence and law enforcement world have just joined Salamandre, a discreet French firm that deals in [...]
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Facing a brace of investigations into its operations in Iraq, KBR Government, the branch of Halliburton that deals with all [...]
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The Club Informatique des Grandes Entreprises Francaises (CIGREF: Computer Club of Major French Corporations) displayed its intention of remaining a [...]
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Presently undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, a job that [...]
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Congratulated by king Abdallah of Jordan after preventing a chemical [...]
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Assistant director of the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire [...]
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Control Risks has just replaced John Conyngham, who had been [...]
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