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1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Alberto Nardelli |Andrew Martin

(Bloomberg) -- Group of Seven leaders may discuss North Korea’s malicious cyber activities and crypto hacks at a summit in Canada next month, according to people familiar with the plans, reflecting mounting global concerns over Pyongyang’s growing online thefts. The people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations, said North Korea’s nefarious cyber operations are alarming as the stolen proceeds have become a key funding source for the regime and its programs.

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Andrew Martin

Harrods luxury department store in London. (Bloomberg) -- London’s luxury department store Harrods Ltd. reported hacking attempts Thursday, just days after two other UK retailers said they were attacked. “We recently experienced attempts to gain unauthorized access to some of our systems,” a Harrods spokesperson said in an email.

3 weeks ago | mondaq.com | Jeffrey E Liskov |Andrew Martin |Michael E. Neminski

The members of BakerHostetler's Antitrust and CompetitionTeam are pleased to present these brief updates from the conferencesessions at this week's ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting inWashington, D.C.At a panel hosted by BakerHostetler's Julian Perlman, stateenforcers emphasized that antitrust enforcement continues despitethe changing landscape at the federal level. The state enforcersmade clear that they are not afraid to pursue actions and citednumerous examples of doing so.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Andrew Martin

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3 weeks ago | ca.style.yahoo.com | Andrew Martin

Gridlock on the A1 in Newcastle.Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PAMost people know the North Road of this book’s title as the London-to-Edinburgh A1. But, as Rob Cowen writes, A1 is a cipher for a 400-mile multiplicity of roads – a historically diverse bundle that includes ancient trackways, a Roman road, the “Old North Road” and the “Great North Road” (the name generally applied to what became the A1 in the road-numbering scheme of the 1920s).