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Best Buy almost succumbed to the pressure from online retailer Amazon and shut its doors. Instead of closing down, the business adapted and created a new strategy that saw it move into new areas of success.

If implemented correctly, webinars are extremely effective at bringing your business in front of a new audience. Alongside this, they are great at generating qualified leads.

A new advancement in the online world of game development means that in-game advertising can be removed. By utilising a block-chain based revenue stream in Unity games, players can still be incentivised without relying on advertisements.

There can be a lot of reasons why your wifi might not be performing how you need it to. Some of these include where it’s placed in your home, a congested signal, problems with firmware, hardware isn’t capable, or that the range is not large enough.

There are certain best practices that individuals and businesses can make use of to protect their employees and critical data. We will go into some strategies that should be used to keep your data safe, as well as some of the threats.

For those who have not learnt to code, the most common route to getting a website live involves a sitebuilder platform. A sitebuilder provides you with the tools to create a website and deploy it to the internet.

Are you able to improve your team’s output? There are always some improvements that can be made, particularly when looking at the tools and collaboration systems businesses utilise.

Research from CoinMarketCap suggests that there are an estimated 5,266 digital coins available, meaning that there is a huge number of currencies that could be a wasted investment.

Is your online store making money? You could put in hundreds of hours of work, countless sleepless nights, and have drunk gallons of coffee. But despite all this effort some people’s stores just don’t make a profit.

The networking and IT business from Japan will do this by launching a multi-million dollar satellite system, as well as hybrid Cloud technology. This will be done through new partnerships with Intermedia and Sumitomo Corporation.

Despite the huge shift in society’s current processes, there are many businesses that have adapted and are finding some success in this troubling time. We’ve compiled a list of the tactics businesses have been using to keep moving forward.

Recent analysis by the Synergy Research Group has brought to light that data center M&A had an extremely strong quarter in 2020. So much so that it’s already gone beyond 2019 levels.

There are more than 10,000 WordPress themes to choose from. For anyone building a site that’s a lot of options to filter through. To help with this, we’ve put together a short list of the top 5 WordPress themes available.

Both Apple Music and Spotify have a considerable share of the online music streaming market. They both offer more than 50 million songs at a high quality, for a relatively low price. But what sets them apart from each other?

200 billion yuan ($28 billion) will be invested by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. into the development of their cloud infrastructure. This will take place over a three year period in an attempt to push its services further into more countries and markets

The Nintendo Switch is a unique gaming device that wants to do it all. Advertised as a “hybrid” game console, the Switch can be used as a portable, handheld device like the Nintendo 3DS, but also as a console like the PS4 or Xbox One.

To help you figure out which fits you best, I compare cPanel and Plesk on various aspects of their service. It’s a close race, but Plesk does manage to come out on top in several areas. Read on to find out more.

But with these new companies, how do you know what ones are the best to use? Can you trust them with your money? This article will compare two of the most popular non bank money transfer companies, CurrencyFair and TransferWise.

Looking to use Zoom for the first time, but not yet sure how to get started? Use this step-by-step guide to set up your account and host or attend your first meeting today.

The majority of people working online in internet based services will have come across the name GoDaddy at some point. The company is the biggest domain registrar operating, with over 78 million customers registering domain names with them.

The internet is huge and there are millions of variations of domain names out there. With the huge number of variations out there, it is easy for someone new to the field to get lost and overwhelmed.

This article will compare Webflow and Wordpress, two of the biggest and most popular site builders in the market. They both have different strengths and weaknesses that will help you decide what one suits you best.

There are multiple types of hosting and hosting providers available for websites, each offering slightly different services which will match some sites’ needs more than others. This article will go into detail about the most prominent one, WP Engine.

Have you heard of the Winklevoss twins? It’s a story some may be very familiar with and others, not at all. This article will tell the story of how the Winklevoss twins bought their way to being bitcoin billionaires.

Even before the Coronavirus outbreak, there was a huge market of people looking to learn new skills from the comfort of their own home. Since populations around the world are being asked to self isolate wherever possible, the demand has skyrocketed.

Currently TikTok provides a strong advertising opportunity because it’s extremely popular and is not as overburdened by ads as some of the older social media platforms.

Plugins are very important to the functioning of Wordpress sites and are vital to getting your site to perform how you want it to. Just on the wordpress.org directory, there are more than 48,000 free plugins to choose from, with even more available on Github and ones that can be bought.

For those who don’t know, Apple has brought out a new iPad pro this year. The new model has promised a lot of new features and is much more powerful. When the first generation was released, some people within the design industry heralded it as a new revolutionary tool for designers.

Within the first 10 months of Fortnite being released in July 2017, there were 125 million registered players and the game had taken $1.2 billion in net revenue. In April 2018, the game was launched on iPhone, where it reportedly made $2 million a day. This resulted in a revenue of $2.4 billion in 2018.

Intercom is the biggest customer messaging platform currently on the market, as well as one of the best designed. How do I know this?

As long as people have been on this earth, they have tried to find solutions to problems that save time and are less complicated. ‘Productivity’ is a term that goes hand in hand with work. It is about completing the most amount of work possible within your contracted hours. This has led to many different techniques and schemes designed to maximise a worker’s output.

N26 is a fully licensed Berlin based digital bank, part of a wave of new challengers in the industry that are taking on the traditional institutions. It has no bricks and mortar branches and is 100% online.

Twitch is an online streaming service, where viewers can watch live and pre recorded videos of people playing video games. The person broadcasting is often on screen, alongside the ingame footage. They provide a commentary to what’s happening and there is also a chat function for viewers to interact with the broadcaster by asking questions and commenting.

Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have all deployed containment strategies, meaning that their workforce in high risk areas should not go into the office if they are able to telecommute.

Education doesn’t have to take place in schools or universities. Don’t get me wrong, formal education and degrees are important. Yet, many successful professionals admit that true skill takes time, requires practice (lots of it… and then some), and will often occur in environments not designed for instruction to begin with.

How do you know who is working on a task? Can people communicate effectively about the work? Are there any holdups in the usual workflow? These are all questions that can easily emerge when a team grows. What at one point might have been simple because you were in the same room as everybody on a project becomes a lot more difficult on a larger scale. Particularly if teams are based in multiple locations.

The interface of TikTok makes video editing extremely simple. So much so that millions of its users are capable of doing it. These users are based all over the world, not just in Western markets. China and India also have a large amount of users, meaning that TikTok was the 4th most downloaded app in the world in 2018, across all platforms.

Google Ads and Facebook ads are two of the biggest platforms in the Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising world. Both Google and Facebook have access to unparalleled audience sizes. If implemented correctly, they can bring a lot of new clients to a business. In an ideal world, a company would be able to market across both of these platforms.

Crunchbase is an online platform for professionals and investors to research and find up and coming companies. Data on startups, SMEs and larger organizations are held for professionals to research and analyse. This data includes investment, funding information, founding members, people in leadership, mergers and acquisitions, news, and related industry trends.

At a glance, Revolut and bunq propose similar services, but if you dig a little deeper, you begin to see the difference. Both providers offer cards that you can use to make and receive payments online and in-person. In addition, they both come with advantageous exchange rates and plenty of extra features that make them ideal travel companions. However, each works with distinct fees, which ultimately sets them apart from one another.

Every company is looking for the next big deal, the next big opportunity that lets them grow and hit all their targets. But is every company utilising all lead generation channels? Quora can be an extremely powerful B2B lead generation platform, if used correctly. Read on below to find out how.

How can you bring in more customers for a lower acquisition? How can you reach out to a wider audience while also tailoring your messaging to specific users? Every marketing specialist will give you their own take on this.

The landing page has one specific goal and that is what the entire page is designed around. Other webpages might have several reasons for being created, but a landing page is trying to direct the user to the CTA, or call to action. Some common CTAs are purchases, signups, and registrations.

Chatbots come as a broader trend of AI and automation begins to revolutionise our everyday processes. This has led many in the industry to decry they are the future and every company should be using an automated conversation system.

Webflow is a tool to design, build, and run a website. Like many other site builders on the market, it tries to bridge the gap between actual web development and drag and drop visual editors. It does this extremely well.

Dropshipping is a way that shops fulfill their purchases. Essentially, they don’t stock their products in the store or at a warehouse. Their inventory is bought from a third party who sends the purchase straight to the customer. This means that the seller never physically possesses the product. A wholesaler or producer fulfills the orders on behalf of the vendor.

The importance of the UK market for the Alibaba Cloud was pivotal in the decision to build these data centers in London. It was one of the fastest growing European markets for the business with clients across key sectors. The services to be rolled out from these data centers includes elastic computing, which will help to mitigate times of heavy usage within the network, as well as application services, big data analytics, and storage - alongside others.