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What Goes into a Successful Recipe Site or App? While all of the shopping buzz and analysis is happening during the holidays, another niche that is steadily and silently picking up momentum is the online world of recipes—both recipe portals and applications. Rajini Padmanaban looks at the important aspects of a successful recipe site or app. |
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PayPal, Apple Are Pushing eCommerce to Mobile Platforms In the past ten years, online retail juggernauts like Amazon and eBay have loosened the grip on consumers' wallets traditionally held by brick-and-mortar stores. Read more to learn how Apple's and PayPal’s newest projects may really change the way people shop. |
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How Wearable Computing Impacts App Development Wearable computing requires that an app be designed to complement a user’s activities without creating a barrier between the user and the outside world. Finding the sweet spot between these two constraints is the challenge developers face. |
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President Asks Every American to Learn to Code Hoping to spark students’ interest in learning more about in-demand computer science and programming skills, nonprofit organization Code.org launched the Hour of Code to get people to learn the basics of computer coding through interactive lessons. Among its celebrity advocates is President Obama. |
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WorkSpaces—Amazon's Entry into Desktop as a Service Amazon continues to make ripples in the cloud computing technology market with the recent beta launch of Amazon WorkSpaces, a cloud-based desktop as a service (DaaS) solution. Anuj Magazine looks at what Amazon's somewhat late entry into the DaaS space says about its product strategy. |
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Using Big Data to Make Big Decisions on Hiring, Firing, and Retention Predictive analytics has primarily been used to determine the future of the market, consumer trends and demands, and how products might fare in the industry. Now companies could be turning predictive analytics on its axis, forcing the scope inward as they look to use big data in hiring and firing. |
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Handoffs Aren't Bad—Just Think of Cooks in the Kitchen Some people are confused by the word handoff. They think it means people have not done their jobs and other people had to cover for them. Sometimes that happens, but usually it's more like when one chef cooks his part of the meal, then hands off the plate to the next chef to finish the dish. |
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The Importance of Getting Enough Sleep (and What Happens If You Don’t) Too little sleep has consequences, including lapses of attention, delayed reaction time, and headaches. But sleep needs are individual; you and a coworker of the same age and gender may need different amounts to function at your best. (By the way, research shows an hour's nap can boost brain power!) |
