A noticeable fall in the flow of EU nationals into the UK has coincided with a drop in the quantity and suitability of job applicants being reported by employers, the latest quarterly Labour Market Outlook from the CIPD and the Adecco Group has revealed. The data suggests that while the …
Welcome to Fat Bear Week at Mashable! Each fall, Katmai National Park holds a competition as Alaska’s brown bears finish fattening up for their long winter hibernation. This year, Mashable is getting in on the salmon-munching action. Check back with us all week as we follow the fat bear face-offs …
Mary Meeker, who revealed in September plans to leave Kleiner Perkins after an eight-year run with the venture firm, is reportedly looking to raise up to $1.25 billion for her debut fund. So says Business Insider, citing multiple sources. We’ve reached out to Meeker for more information. As Meeker told …
What started as an online bookstore has turned into one of the largest companies in the world covering businesses that range from transoceanic shipping to video streaming. It also empowers entrepreneurs to make a great deal of money by providing a powerful online shopping platform. There are many different ways …
Bots went through the hype cycle faster than a speeding roller coaster, as the promise of chatting with a computer quickly turned sour. Now, Twilio wants to take another stab at this market with the launch of Autopilot, a new developer service for building omnichannel bot experiences. “Omnichannel” is a …
Optimizely has grown to be one of the major A/B testing tools. It’s suitable for companies of all sizes — from startups and small businesses to major corporations. Optimizely’s tools and integrations allow anyone to quickly learn more about their audience and experiment with design and content changes non-destructively through …
This article was updated in November 2018 to reflect the most recent colors and fonts used by social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. For the first time this doesn’t include Google Plus, which is now defunct. Was it ever really alive anyway? Social login buttons, links to social …
Many of us are living longer than ever before. However, longer lives sometimes go hand-in-hand with longer periods of ill-health. As home business owners, planning is second nature, and having a plan for your future health and well-being is a smart move. As there is no way of knowing who …
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made a stunning acknowledgment last week in an all-hands meeting, a recording of which was heard by CNBC. With the company valued at just shy of $1 trillion and Bezos being the richest man in modern history, the Amazon CEO said his 24-year-old firm was far …
This article was originally published on the Okta developer blog. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. As mobile app usage is expected to continue to grow, now is as good a time as any to get into the market. Android is by far the most popular …
Congratulations! I’m assuming testing went well, and the QA process went through without a hitch, right? Then we’re good. Let’s go live! There are a couple of assumptions. I’m assuming that you guys used some type of staging environment, and if not, GoDaddy offers that and has some tutorials about it. I …
Website security needs to stop being viewed as an optional add-on and start being viewed as a critical element of website development, ownership and maintenance. No matter what your role, if you’re selling website services, it’s important to educate clients about website security basics. Waiting until the end of a …
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The events season is in full swing every May and this year is no exception. So much so that we’ll never do justice to how much is going on in one story. As the workplace sector becomes increasingly well defined in its own right and the world sets out to …
When projects slow down and the need for extra cash comes up, web pros have various options to make some additional income on the side using their skillset. I’m not just talking about going out and doing food deliveries. The skills of a web pro are invaluable and can have …
Traditional job roles are becoming more complex due to digital transformation initiatives a new poll claims, with UK businesses having to wait more than five months, on average, for new joiners to get up to speed in their jobs. In the research by Robert Half of almost 5,000 CFOs in 14 …
When I first started out in the wild world of freelancing, my main gig was writing. One day while working at my very first magazine, a photographer called in sick, and my editor assigned me to shoot an event I was writing about even though I had no experience and …
This article on cloud security tips was first published on May 5, 2015. It was updated on August 6, 2018. Have you read the news? Chances are there’s breaking coverage of a cloud security breach. Maybe it’s personal cloud storage from a celebrity. Maybe it’s a huge enterprise suffering a …
Abraham Maslow was the 20th-century American psychologist best-known for explaining motivation through his hierarchy of needs, which he represented in a pyramid. At the base, our physiological needs include food, water, warmth and rest. Moving up the ladder, Maslow mentions safety, love, and self-esteem and accomplishment. But after all those …
If you operate on the global stage, language is likely one of your biggest barriers. You need to communicate effectively across borders to convey your brand with the consistency, accuracy, and professionalism necessary to succeed. However, this is not as simple as translating word for word thanks to the many …
You would think that creating a championship culture is easy with athletes making multi-millions of dollars each season. But, in my experience, it is just as hard creating a championship culture in that environment as it is creating it in your company. Baseball managers have to deal with players that …
Years ago, when I started freelance writing, I talked to another writer friend, Cindy, about what my freelance quotes should be. “I’m worried people will think I’m too expensive,” I said. “How is $50 per hour?” Cindy said, “If you do that, I’ll kick your ass.” That was a bit …
A friend I know had been thinking about launching a small business for the last few months. Whenever we met, that’s all he had in mind and would talk about. And at some point in time, I finally had enough of listening to it. “What on earth are you waiting …
As a retail store owner, you’ll probably already be familiar with the delicate balancing act of balancing staffing and inventory needs against the need to cut costs and keep expenses down to a minimum. That’s why you handle most of your administrative tasks at home in your home office, and …
London is still the world’s top destination for investment in commercial real estate despite ongoing uncertainty about Brexit, well above both Manhattan and Paris, the next two biggest markets, new research claims. Around£16.2 billion was invested in central London’s commercial offices in 2018 compared with £14.3 billion in Manhattan, £12.1 …
Gifts aren’t the only thing to bust your budget this holiday season. Most major U.S. airlines have recently raised their checked bag fees, which means transporting presents home may cost a little bit more this year. American Airlines baggage fees, JetBlue Airlines baggage fees, United Airlines baggage fees, and Delta …
With the right analytics plugin, a WordPress ecommerce merchant can access extensive data to track visitors and discover what they like and what they don’t, to convert more visitors. Here is … The post 12 Analytics Plugins for WordPress appeared first on Practical Ecommerce. Source: Practical eCommerce Republished by Blog …
There’s a pretty well proven link between lack of sleep and negative emotion, but is catching 40 winks whilst at work a proven solution? Research from the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) suggests that lack of sleep can have a negative impact on emotion. Could naps of 20-30 minutes make for …
In this article, I’m going to show you how to use Beaver Builder to build a WordPress website. Beaver Builder is one of the most popular and versatile page builders for WordPress, a favorite among web designers and developers for its speed, responsiveness and intuitive interface. There are a lot …
You can’t judge an international marketplace by wandering around an exhibition of its products for a day or two. This is a simple fact overlooked by a new piece in Dezeen which declares that desks are finished. This notion is based on a trip to the Orgatec furniture fair in …
