As a business owner, you need to do everything that you can to ensure that your business operates as efficiently as possible and that you can provide the best possible service to your clients. For many business owners, one of the major challenges of running their business is financial management. While managing your accounts might not be the most glamorous aspects of running a business, it is crucial to gain control of your finances for your company to succeed. With the right small business accounting software, you can instantly take control of your business finances. These powerful appli...

Google has officially announced the rollout of its mobile-first indexing. After a year and half of careful experimenting and testing. Google has begun to start a transition to websites that follow best practices for mobile optimization, to help the majority of people who use google search on their mobile devices (mobile users).Google says, its search algorithms use the mobile version of the web page to indexing and ranking, to better help 'primarily mobile' user-base. Google continues to have the single index that it uses to serve search results, there is no separate mobile-first index from it...

 As a manager, when your team isn’t completing as much work as they should be and you’re feeling the pressure from those higher up, it can be difficult to know what to do. The whole team is stressed and productivity is taking a huge drop. When this happens it’s time to take a step back and assess where the issue lies. Here’s how to increase the productivity of your IT team. Have clear goals and rolesAt the start of every project have a meeting with everyone involved. Explain the vision and the end goal. Then break down each stage, activity and task. Giving bac...

No matter where in the world you look, you will find that various government agencies spend enormous amounts of money to procure products and services from outside companies. And while most of us immediately think about construction projects and perhaps defense contractors, a huge portion of government projects over the last decade or so were in the IT sector. In essence, governments on all levels often require services that their existing employees cannot handle and they invite outside IT companies to bid for those contracts.The question that we are asking today is whether smaller IT companie...

Got some spare cash saved away, and want to start looking into building a financial portfolio and perhaps investing for your future? Putting your smartphone to good use every now and again, and spending your time on it productively rather than just for mindless social media scrolling and games, can actually help you to reach a better financial position before you’ve even noticed.For those interested, here are a few different tips on how you can learn to invest successfully using your smartphone.Getting generally financially savvyTo start with, the smartphone that you keep in your pocket ...

Microsoft's social platform LinkedIn announced on Wednesday, August 9th, that it would cease its operations in China, ending its nearly decade-long presence in the Chinese market. This move signifies the departure of a major Western social media platform from China.Currently, when accessing LinkedIn's domain within China, users are redirected to a page that provides services for corporate clients. The mobile app for "LinkedIn Workplace" displays a message stating, "Unable to load data."As one of the few successful social media platforms operated by a U.S. tech company in China, LinkedIn, as th...

When it comes to powerful tools, it is hard to beat the Internet. We can use it to access a huge variety of news, information, entertainment, products and more.When the Internet first became a thing, people pretty much had to be sitting at their computers to use it. But now, thanks to the advent of a wireless network known as WiFi, you can connect to the Internet through your smartphones, streaming devices, laptops and more from anywhere in the house.If you are in the market for some new tech or you want to be sure your system is optimal for your needs, it’s important to first take a num...

Time is money in the API industry, and everyone wants to be timely for the API’s milestone event: its eventual launch. Delays in this event can be very costly, so the sooner the API can be integrated, the better. Many developers start their work knowing quite well that the clock is ticking. But prioritizing a quick launch—at the cost of everything else—can do a lot of damage in the long run. A rushed launch may result in unstable integration, a host of errors and bugs, lower end-user satisfaction, and decreased trust in the API company. And that’s where the challen...