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Chartered Accountants Can Now Take Their Work On The Go With New Online Tools

Andrew RoughtonJuly 21, 2022June 13, 2024

The modern-day Chartered accountant is a highly sought-after professional, with a critical role to play in businesses and organizations around the globe. As the world of business becomes increasingly complex...

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eBay’s Mobile App: The Best and Worst

Phil ScottApril 10, 2018June 14, 2024

One of the biggest and oldest ecommerce giants is eBay. In order to compete with Amazon, it added the option for users to “buy instantly” instead of the traditional online...

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Encryption: Easy as abc123

Josh MooreJune 17, 2016

What is encryption anyway and why are millennials so scared? Except for the tech-minded millennials, most millennials who hear the word encryption run for the hills and leap into the...

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WordPress SEO By Yoast Tutorial

Phil ScottJune 15, 2016June 14, 2024

Of all the WordPress SEO plugins, one of the most successful and user friendly ones is WordPress SEO by Yoast. Although it is user friendly, there are some things which...

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The Majority of the World Still Not Online

Phil ScottMay 14, 2016June 14, 2024

The Internet has an incredible potential to make the world more equal. The Internet allows anyone, no matter what their background, an equal chance to share their opinions and get...

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Computers Predict Your Personality Using Your Facebook Likes

Phil ScottApril 3, 2016June 14, 2024

Us humans like to pride ourselves on being unique. We like to believe that our individual personalities are so varied that it's impossible to compartmentalise us. A study in PNAS...

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Security Hack Exposed 83 Million Households and Businesses

Phil ScottMarch 13, 2016June 14, 2024

A security hack at JPMorgan Chase & co is certain to go down in history. Seventy-six million households and seven million businesses had their names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses exposed. The breach is...

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Google Program Allows Users to Block Ads

Phil ScottMarch 3, 2016June 14, 2024

Google is trialing a cool new program for web trawlers sick of Google ads. Whether they're over repetitive ads, creepily relevant ads or just the bells and whistles of some...

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One Giant Leap For Drone-kind

Phil ScottFebruary 28, 2016June 14, 2024

The Federal Aviation Administration has finally provided a path forward for the legal use of drones in the United States. Finally. If you haven't already heard of these laws, here's a...

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23% of Online Video Ad Views Come from Robots

Phil ScottFebruary 23, 2016June 14, 2024

Marketers and techies have been suspicious for a while about how many of video ad views are from people. According to a study almost a quarter of views are from...