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Mobile Gaming Growing into Largest Ad Platform According to a panel of advertising experts at the Global Mobile Internet Conference, mobile gaming is trending toward becoming the largest advertising platform in the world. This particular industry is actually pulling a lot of advertising money out of other media. |
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The Changing Dynamics of Online Shopping for the Holidays Every time we gear up for a peak-load online shopping day, one of main things is the application’s performance. Was it available without any downtime? Was the response time acceptable? Did the pages load fine? While this information is the main focus, there is increasingly more finesse involved. |
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Google Contributor Is Removing Online Ads—for a Nominal Fee Ads are the financial backbone of so many popular websites, but the current system is broken. To combat this, a new program, Google Contributor, is allowing Internet users to pay a dollar or three dollars per month in order to remove ads from a handful of popular online destinations. |
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Jeff 'Cheezy' Morgan Presents The Future of Agile at ADC/BSC East Jeff Morgan—better known by his nickname, “Cheezy”—gave his keynote “The Future of Agile: Dilution, Calcification, or Evolution?” at the Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference East 2014. He talked about adaptation, why best practices aren't the best, and returning to agile roots. |
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Don’t Misinterpret the Absence of Customer Complaints Beware: The absence of customer complaints doesn’t necessarily mean customers are happy. Complaints are a critical indicator of the state of customer satisfaction, so an increase in the number, type, intensity, or urgency of complaints bears examination—but so does a decrease. Read on to learn why. |
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Singles’ Day Sets Global E-Commerce Record China’s biggest online sales day, Singles' Day, shattered previous records this year, bringing in 9.3 billion dollars. The undeniable winner was Alibaba, the e-commerce giant with 80 percent of China's online market share. As the retail marketplace changes, here are some things to keep in mind. |
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Unblurring Lines: Clarifying the Scope of Your Project Project and subproject boundaries can be challenging because people have different assumptions about exactly where the boundaries are. What, exactly, do your plan and budget include? Items on the boundary should be reviewed with project sponsors and documented as clearly in or out of project scope. |
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The Data Science of Big Data Big data is a science, and luckily, there are plenty of tips out there to help you become a better data scientist, which can also work to make you and your team become more adept at leveraging big data. Read on for some helpful data science takeaways. |
