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Virtual Reality Pioneer Founds Tech Startup To Patrol Borders
Palmer Luckey’s new venture uses technology to police borders and large events. Considered as ‘disgraced’ by many in Silicon Valley, for his political leanings, Luckey is still the founder of Oculus, the VR firm bought out by Facebook in 2014 for $3 billion. Leaving Facebook earlier this year in... Read more
Top 5 Helpdesk Apps
Smash your next CSAT scores with these great solutions. Gaining customers is hard work. Keeping them is vital. Aid customer retention and satisfaction with this selection of great helpdesk apps. A smart ticketing system that filters all incoming tickets and organizes, prioritizes and sorts client requests and assigns them... Read more
Uber CEO Takes Indefinite Leave Of Absence
Travis Kalanick to take time out following bereavement and release of a damning report. Uber CEO, Travis Kalanick has announced that he is to take an indefinite leave of absence, to grieve for his recently deceased mother and, to take time away from the company following the release of... Read more
Bitcoin Mining Scheme Results In $12M Fine
Homero Joshua Garza is being sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission, following fraud allegation.  GAW Miners and ZenMiner’s founder Homero Joshua Garza is being sued by the SEC, following a civil complaint alleging that the Bitcoin mining companies run by Garza and his brother, Carlos Garza, committed $19 million worth... Read more
Uber Exec Fired For Allegedly Obtaining Rape Victim’s Medical Records
Incident said to relate to Uber driver in India. In early December 2014, an Uber driver took a woman to an isolated area and raped her, a Delhi court found. Shiv Kumar Yadav, the Uber driver, was convicted in October 2015 for rape and kidnapping, and was sentenced to... Read more
Top 5 HR And Employee Management Apps
Take the stress out of human resources and employee management. From advertising jobs and candidate recruitment, through to time-management, training, and reward and recognition, human resources and employee management are time-consuming, often complex, elements of running a business. So, wouldn’t it be great to have a choice of quality... Read more
Top 5 Finance and Accounting Apps
Keep on top of invoicing, expenses, transfers and more with these must-have business solutions.  Wouldn’t it be nice to have powerful, yet easy-to-use, app that helped you with invoicing, accounting, and your general business finances? Of course it would! So we’ve complied our Top 5 Finance and Accounting Apps,... Read more
Top 5 CRM Software
Track leads, convert prospects, and retain customers with these great CRM solutions. Running a successful business isn’t easy, so a quality customer relationship management (CRM) tool is vital. They allow you to manage and analyse customer interactions and data throughout the customer lifecycle, helping to improve business relationships, assist... Read more
Top 5 Email Marketing Apps
Create successful campaigns. Attract, convert and retain loyal customers. Turn customers into loyal fans and brand ambassadors with personalised email campaigns and automated customer journeys. Email is perfect for keeping your brand top-of-mind and staying connected with those who make a purchase, read your blog or meet you in... Read more
Top 10 Project Management And Collaboration Apps
Organise teams, deliver great projects and nail work flows with these brilliant apps.  Whether you work on your own, in a small team, or as part of a large organisation, project management and collaboration apps can make a massive difference in helping to make things run smoothly, efficiently, and on time.... Read more
Top 5 Productivity Apps
The best software to help you be more productive. With winter finally behind us and the promise of summer in the air, it’s the perfect time to ‘Spring clean’ your life, kick start those projects and be more productive… finally! To help you take the first steps towards being more effective... Read more
Lack Of Software Talent Costing US Businesses
Report by Trilogy Education points to high price for talent drain.  The need for quality software engineers has plagued US tech companies for some time. The issue has even become highly politicized due to the recent attempts at banning travel by individuals from certain regions, regardless of their legal... Read more
Yahoo and Verizon Agree $350,000,000 Price Cut
US telecoms giant Verizon has reached a deal with Yahoo to buy the company’s core internet business for $350m less than originally agreed. Verizon announced on Tuesday that it had agreed to buy Yahoo’s core internet business for a final figure of $4.48 billion. This is lower than the... Read more
Ford Pledges $1bn For AI Start-Up
Investment in Argo hopes to see autonomous vehicles on the road by 2021. The Ford motor company has  announced that it’s to invest $1 billion in the next five years to artificial intelligence (A.I.) startup Argo. The company was created by former Google and Uber employees. Ford is hoping to... Read more
Elon Musk: PayPal Then SpaceX, Now A Tunnel Under LA
Is the tech entrepreneur serious about his solution to traffic congestion? While necessity is the mother of invention, sometimes the greatest inventions are borne out of pure irritation and access to Twitter. Famed game-changer Elon Musk, frustrated at sitting in dead standstill Los Angeles traffic, tweeted an innocuous and humorous... Read more
US Judge Rules Google Must Hand Over Foreign Emails
A top U.S. judge has ruled that Google, unlike Microsoft, must comply with FBI search warrants for emails held on its servers outside the United States. The decision diverges from a federal appeals court that came to an opposite conclusion in a similar case involving Microsoft. The law that... Read more
Uber CEO Quits Trump Advisory Board After Public Pressure
Travis Kalanick leaves advisory economic council after intense criticism and viral online boycott of Uber. In an email to staff that was subsequently leaked to several news agencies, Kalanick said: “Joining the group was not meant to be an endorsement of the president or his agenda but unfortunately it... Read more
Facebook Loses $500m Oculus Virtual Reality Case
A court the US has ordered Facebook to pay $500m to ZeniMax Media Inc after ruling the social media giant unlawfully used the firm’s virtual reality technology. The virtual reality headset maker that Facebook bought in 2014 for $2 billion was found to have used stolen computer code acquired from ZeniMax... Read more