Facebook has long been working to reduce the number of people who don’t have access to the internet, and have announced the creation of a new platform called OpenCellular.
The OpenCellular is an open source, "wireless access platform" designed to drive down the cost of setting up cellular networks in places where it has been traditionally difficult...
Understanding UX design is part science and part psychology. The approach to UX design is broad and usually depends on the education or job history of the person involved in it. Someone in product management will approach UX design differently than a interaction designer, and so forth. But no matter how diverse someone’s background is,...
Far from being an economic disaster, a British exit from Europe could be the best thing that's ever happened to UK fintech, says Michael Jackson, partner at Mangrove Capital and former COO at Skype. Great entrepreneurs feed off of disruption - whether geopolitical or technological.
As a venture capital investor, I back entrepreneurs who take advantage of change to create transformational businesses. So I was struck...
As the tech industry expands, women are missing out on equal job opportunities for iot staffing, mobile development, ux/ui design work and digital staffing in general. Since women account for nearly 50% of college graduates, why are only 30% of them staffed within the tech industry? More often than not, you’ll find a woman receptionist operating as the...
The future looks grim for payday lenders. Comedian John Oliver has had them in his crosshairs since 2014, attracting millions of viewers and stirring up plenty of outrage. President Obama began expressing concerns about their exploitative lending practices last spring. Google announced last month that it would no longer allow payday lenders to...
Establishing a new process or product is hard work. It becomes even more complicated when there are multiple parties needed to complete the task. With the rise of UX, product managers are now having to look more closely at user experience, how it functions, techniques associated with the domain and other key factors. When UX designers and product managers need to work...
Mobile development staffing companies are aggressively seeking product managers to fill a diverse set of roles in technologically focused businesses as the mobile and tech industry grows. But what do product managers actually do and what are their daily tasks? There are many layers to this answer. Within the tech industry, product managers can take on...