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Continue readingThe US needs to move more of its women into tech jobs over the next decade, says a report. That’ll help the women, and it will also help the economy. Despite efforts to increase diversity in tech, women’s share of computing jobs in the US could be even smaller by 2025 than it is today. [...]
Continue readingBlockchain, augmented reality, Internet of Things (IoT), and voice interfaces will have big business implications. Augmented reality will become a shopping paradise, webpages will start to give way to screen-less voice interactions, blockchain technology will create a business worth $10 billion, and the Internet of Things will save $1 trillion a year by 2022. Those [...]
Continue readingAsk yourself a simple question. If it were an issue for you, what would you pay to get rid of stress, anxiety, loneliness, sadness, physical and mental pain, or depression? Or conversely, what would you pay to be happy, feel connected, feel understood, change bad habits into better ones, have a healthy brain as you [...]
Continue readingAndroid has grown in most markets with “increased demand for lower-cost” devices, while iPhone SE sales are “strong” in the UK. Kantar Worldpanel Comtech has released its latest smartphone OS data for the three months ending August 2016. Let’s start with the Australian stats first, courtesy of Tamsin Timpson, strategic insight director at Kantar Worldpanel [...]
Continue readingiPhone app development cost is a pretty hot subject. Every entrepreneur aims to optimize the app development budget because, as a rule, he creates a new product under conditions of uncertainty. A little while time ago we have already observed the problem of the app development cost estimation and the drivers of development price in [...]
Continue readingSince the emergence of Bitcoin in 2008, cryptocurrency and one of its underlying technologies, the blockchain, have already become buzzwords in the world of finance. If you look into the short history of cryptocurrency, starting from the year when Bitcoin was introduced, it took less than 10 years for this technology to integrate deeply into [...]
Continue readingThere is not a single aspect of business today that has remained untouched by digital technologies. A recent survey from Progress found that businesses are beginning to recognize the tremendous importance of implementing a digital strategy, with more than half of respondents reporting that data connectivity and integration are critical components for digital transformation. The [...]
Continue readingNew survey of more than 2,100 JVM developers finds at least half now embrace microservices to boost their speed and agility. In a world in which developers are expected to churn out solutions faster than the speed of sound, microservices are taking hold. Development teams working in continuous development and continuous integration pipelines and releasing [...]
Continue readingWe’re still in the early days of the hardware renaissance. Driven by decreased development costs, shorter times to market and a shift in hardware business models away from commoditized consumer electronics to recurring revenue and software services, VCs have poured money into hardware startups. Last year we published an overview of this explosion in funding. [...]
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