Local e-commerce industry can fast-track economic growth

Ecommerce Business Economic GrowthThe growing local e-commerce industry presents an exciting solution for fast-track growth in the SMME sector. “E-commerce represents a fundamental change in the way that trade is conducted, and offers up a new, more efficient way to connect producers and merchants directly to customers around the country and in fact the world, bridging the gap between demand and supply. This presents major potential for the expansion of small businesses, improved...

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What is UX and How Can it Help My Business?

UX for BusinessUX design is one of those topics you can’t ignore as a marketer because it has deep roots in everything you do for an online brand. It’s something you and everyone in your team must understand, even if you’re not experts in the field. So what exactly is UX and why is it important to every business? This is the question we’ll be answering today so there’s no more confusion about...

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Snapchat is losing twice as much money as it did last year

Snapchat Profit LossSnap reported its earnings for the first time since becoming a public company in March of this year. Its daily active user count clicked up to 166 million, a 5 percent increase over last quarter, up 36 percent from this time a year ago. That puts it behind Instagram Stories, a competitor launched by Facebook that copied heavily from Snapchat and has already passed 200 million users. It also means...

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The “Gig” Economy and How it Will Impact the Future Working Landscape

gig economy, digital staffing agency, eCommerce, FinTechMost people typically think of the working economy as employment that is divided between two groups: employed and self-employed. The latter provides more flexibility but does not come with any rights, while the prior establishes an abundance of rights, but limited flexibility. The "gig economy", as it is commonly referred,  examines the latter partition: comprising of the seemingly self-employed and highly flexible type of...

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How the IoT Drives Business Productivity

IoT's impact on Business ProductivityThe IoT's Enhancement of Business Productivity and Efficiency

Basically, the IoT sector is comprised of many online sensors that are being entrenched into an increasingly wide range of devices and other digital entities. Examples include in-transit wooden pallets, the HVAC systems of high-rise buildings, and many more. This shift has facilitated the massive generation of reams of crucial data for business analysis to improve their own efficiency. Additionally, production...

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FTC Head Wants The Internet of Things to Regulate Itself

Internet of Things Business RegulationThe acting head of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Maureen Ohlhausen, has said that she believes the Internet of Things industry should largely be left to regulate itself, rather than being subjected to external oversight. She also defended the use of data analytics to target consumers with different offers and pricing. As much as the tech industry likes to try and create new standards, it has often taken external...

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Shopify: The Invisible Selling Machine

Ecommerce Online Digital ShoppingFrom the ­unlikely setting of Ottawa, Shopify has ­quietly been powering an e-commerce revolution.

Shopify has done a pretty good job hiding itself from the world. The company’s e-commerce platform was involved in purchases by more than 100 million individual shoppers in 2016, yet it is invisible by design, enabling the end-to-end operation of its customers, some 400,000 individual retail shops and brands. It proudly operates not from San Francisco or...

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Google Targets Mobile Back-End Development

Google Mobile Back End DevelopmentWith front-end mobile coding taken care of in the recent release of Android Studio 2.3, Google targeted cloud-based back-end development at its recent Google Cloud Next '17 conference. While the show addressed cloud development in general, Google's mobile focus was exemplified by new serverless computing initiatives that provide back-end functionality for Android, iOS and Web apps. These include an update to Google App Engine -- its nine-year-old serverless runtime environment...

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