by Zach Capers | Sep 17, 2019 | Insights, Trends
On Aug. 29, Apple made headlines by announcing its big fall event, at which the hotly anticipated iPhone 11 was expected to be announced.
Later that evening, Google’s Project Zero research team posted an explosive report revealing it had found a severe glitch in the iPhone’s operating system. Google researchers detailed five distinct attack chains and described how countless Apple devices had been exposed to malware simply by visiting hacked websites.
The press pounced on the report.
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by Victoria Wilson | Aug 30, 2019 | Insights, Trends
4K movies. Seamless VR. Autonomous vehicles. They’re all in our future thanks to 5G wireless technology. Given the novelty of these innovations, it’s no surprise that searches for “5G” have more than doubled in the last year.
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by Lauren Maffeo | Aug 30, 2019 | Insights, Trends
Earlier this summer, I mentored a college student doing her first data science internship. She was thrilled to join a large government agency and put her classroom knowledge to work. But when I asked over coffee how it was going, she glumly admitted that it wasn’t what she hoped for.
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by Zach Capers | Aug 27, 2019 | Insights, Trends
By nearly any measure, $5 billion is a lot of money.
That is unless the measure is Facebook’s staggering $55.8 billion in revenue for 2018.
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by Lauren Maffeo | Aug 25, 2019 | Trends
Six in 10 U.S. employees didn’t negotiate their salaries during their last job offers and lost out on earning $7,500 more per year. When staffing firm Robert Half surveyed more than 2,700 workers across 27 major U.S. cities, a mere 39 percent said that they negotiated their last job offer’s salary. Subsequent research from Glassdoor found that the average U.S. employee could be earning 13.3 percent more per year than their current base salary if they had negotiated. (more…)
by Gitanjali Maria | Aug 12, 2019 | Security, Trends
When was the last time you heard that blockchain is the solution to the world’s myriad problems, that it could help end poverty and terrorism, reverse climate change, or improve data security?
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by Victoria Wilson | Aug 9, 2019 | Insights, Trends
Reality check: Your employee trainings are boring. While there is no consensus on how long our attention spans really are, we do know we retain little information from lectures, presentations, and video trainings. Even when we do pay attention we forget 50 percent of the information we received within the hour.
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by Zach Capers | Jul 31, 2019 | Insights, Trends
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) products might be based in the cloud, but that doesn’t mean their pricing should be foggy.
Software pricing models come in a bewildering array of structures with added fees that can be intimidating. This might be why a recent GetApp survey revealed that spending too much money is the most common concern that businesses face when selecting software, beating out features, security, and integrations. We’ll help you focus less on pricing and more on finding the right tool.
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by Chris Warnock | Jul 8, 2019 | Independent SaaS and SMB industry research, Trends
Software is omnipresent in the modern workplace; however, its rapid evolution has led businesses to grapple with its effectiveness. For example, seven years ago McKinsey predicted social technologies could raise worker productivity by 25%.
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by Lauren Maffeo | Jun 29, 2019 | Trends
QuickBooks Online took top honors in GetApp’s latest Category Leaders ranking of accounting software. The ranking helps software buyers shorten their selection process by quickly comparing top-rated tools.
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