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What to Know About Enterprise Travel Security

SecureWorld News

Travel can involve significant security risks. Organizations of all kinds have a responsibility to keep their employees safe while they're traveling. The security risks business travelers may face. These risks may threaten the health and security of a traveler. What effective travel policies can look like.

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Expedia’s Vrbo vacation rental business sees ‘significant’ growth as travel giant aims to cut costs

GeekWire

A surge in vacation rental bookings is helping boost revenue for Expedia Group as the travel giant continues to weather the ongoing COVID-19 storm. The company said “drive-to destinations” has been one of the first segments of travel to recover from the global health crisis that has restricted travel worldwide.

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Apple Maps will show COVID-19 travel guidances so you know what to expect at the airport

The Verge

To help make travel during the pandemic a little less stressful, Apple Maps will now display travel guidance information provided by the Airports Council International (ACI) so you know what to expect before you take off or land at your destination. Travel guidances in Apple Maps on iPhone. Image: MacStories.

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Who’s an astronaut? FAA weighs in on a murky issue for suborbital space travelers

GeekWire

The answer appears to be no, if you go by the Federal Aviation Administration’s newly issued guidelines for its commercial space astronaut wings program. Those guidelines suggest that astronaut wings can go only to crew members on a licensed spacecraft who contribute to flight safety and rise above the 50-mile altitude mark.

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Apple’s new App Store guidelines put scammers and bounty hunters on notice

The Verge

ix) Apps that provide services in highly-regulated fields (such as banking and financial services, healthcare, gambling, legal cannabis use , and air travel) or that require sensitive user information should be submitted by a legal entity that provides the services, and not by an individual developer. Illustration by William Joel / The Verge.

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US rescinds directive barring international students from online classes

The Verge

ICE will reinstate the guidelines it applied to the Spring 2020 semester, which allowed international students with F-1 visas to take fully online course loads while retaining their visa status. The agencies have reached an agreement with Harvard and MIT, who filed a lawsuit on July 8th over the policy. Burroughs announced.

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Newly public, Rover pays off $8M PPP loan that helped pet-sitting company survive pandemic

GeekWire

In March 2020, as the realities of the pandemic became clear, the shutdown in global travel and in-person work significantly reduced demand for the Seattle-based company’s marketplace, which connects pet owners with people who can host, walk, or care for their pets when they’re at the office or on a trip. million in April 2020.

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