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Using Technology to Decrease Operating Costs for a Startup Company

Thanks to a broad range of specialized solutions designed to simplify business operations, small companies can do serious work with a limited number of employees. The role of technology in business isn’t to replace people, but rather to make them more productive. If you accept this axiom, it becomes clear that cost-efficient technological solutions are […]

Social Media vs. Personal Life: Take Care What You Share

It is uncanny how many people, and not exclusively giddy-headed school kids, happily spill sundry details of their lives on social media. And while too caustic a remark about a movie, a pop star or a sports team might drag you in a heated flame-fest with their fans, indiscriminate posting of personal photos and videos […]

Amazon Drones Take Flight

Amazon’s Flying Delivery System Successfully Delivers On First Run As if Amazon needed to brag about anything, CEO Jeff Bezos released a statement on Wednesday that the company’s air trial service had finally delivered its first package to a partner company. The drone practice flight took place in London’s Cambridge region and lasted 13 minutes, […]

How Millennials Changed The Home, Workplace And Economy

  We Millennials are ruling the world these days. Seriously. As the generation that has grown up with connective, advanced technology and access to more information than ever before, we’ve shaped all aspects of life, from the home and the workplace to the economy. Smart technology is our technology. We grew up in the information […]

Can You Become a Business Expert Through Social Media?

Expert may be stretching it somewhat, but there are many things you can learn about the world of business from social media alone. There are currently over two billion social media users in the world, almost one third of the planet, with all the different platforms full of information covering everything imaginable. It’s therefore no […]

Snapchat Introduces Groups

Snapchat Prayers Answered The wish that Snapchatters have prayed about for so long has finally come true. The social media outlet has introduced Groups, a new way to chat with up to 16 friends at once. You can make a group by pressing the icon  in the upper left hand corner of a chat screen […]

Social Media as an Online Educational Research Tool

According to comedian Bo Burnham, “social media is just the market’s answer to a generation that demanded to perform” was hungry to show off to others that need of being heard.   Well, thankfully social media itself has shown us it is.  It´s pretty meta, huh? Social media and teenagers Now we see how our classmates […]

Facebook Seeks Head Of News

Facebook Looking To Hire News Executive It seems as though Facebook is looking to clean up their fake news problem. In a recent job posting, the social network giant is looking to hire “an experienced news executive” to add to the Global News Partnerships team. The company seeks to combat fake news on its network […]

Understanding Online Presence: Web Hosting

Laura is a small business owner in Nottingham whose business is really thriving. Her business is small scale with her services being for residents of Nottingham. Since she started her business 2 years ago, she has gotten most of her customers from word of mouth referrals of satisfied customers. Other customers she had were gotten […]

What To Do to Start A Successful Tourism Business

As internet continues to make the world look smaller and smaller, the tourism industry benefits from it. Tourists are the people traveling out of their homes to stay in other places for recreational or business purposes only for a short time. Tourism industry comprises of many different sectors such as transportation, accommodation, dining, etc. When […]