Online password safety. Three Concordia book reviews. Backers for women in business. XS Labs and the global e-textiles industry.

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• Computer World (in Danish) references a Concordia study of online password meters, which were found to be highly inconsistent. The 2015 study was led by Mohammad Mannan, assistant professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) and Xavier de Carné de Carnavalet, doctoral candidate in the CIISE.
• Montreal Review of Books publishes reviews of three books by Concordia faculty: Arabic for Beginners (Linda Leith Publishing, 2017), fiction, written by Ariela Freedman, associate professor in the Liberal Arts College of the Faculty of Arts and Science. Freedman explores the complexities of politics and life in Israel; the short story collection,Tumbleweed (Véhicule Press), by Josip Novakovich, English professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science; Speaking Memory: How Translation Shapes City Life (McGill-Queen's University Press), a collection of scholarly writings about multilingual cities, edited and co-authored by Sherry Simon, professor in the Département d’études françaises of the Faculty of Arts and Science, with a contribution also from André Furlani, associate professor in and chair of the Department of English in the Faculty of Arts and Science.
• The Globe and Mail, writing about the particular challenges faced by female entrepreneurs when they go looking for investors to back their startups, focuses on the experiences of Marie-Philip Simard, founder of the online fashion strartup 'Chic Marie'. The paper reports that Simard is working with Concordia to develop an algorithm to strengthen the selection of fashion items customers can receive from 'Chic Marie'. The piece is reprised byNewsCaf.
• Money News, Broadcast Newsroom and Spoke carry a release announcing that Concordia's XS Labs is included in a report on the worldwide electronic textiles industry, being issued by the market study firm, Research and Markets. XS Labs, founded by Joanna Berzowska, associate professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts, is dedicated to research and development of electronic textiles and reactive garments.

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