YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

by Rob Wilson, CEO of Employco USA. When running an office, business owners face a range of challenges, including the risk of a lawsuit when office politics go awry. One way employers can minimize the risk of messy lawsuits is by outsourcing human resources tasks to ensure an established protocol is in place. No matter what size your business is, having a defined human resources department and code of conduct is necessary.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

by Halit Bozdogan. Smaller companies who are on the up, or just starting out, usually have a finite amount of resources. So finding ways to ensure that you get the best bang from your buck is crucial. There are things that every office is going to need. Desks, chairs and the like are common sense. From a technology standpoint, what can you afford to leave off the shopping list and what is right up there at the top?

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

by Louise Miller. Literacy is not an overwhelmingly big issue for Singaporeans. Instead, it’s taken as a fact; 96.6 percent of men and 88.6 percent of women are literate, according to the millennial census – though this data is of course nearly 15 years old. In fact, 92.5 percent of Singaporeans over the age of 15 can read and write. Some countries around the globe aren’t in such a fortunate position: Afghanistan, for example, has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world, with only 28.1 per

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

2012 – the year the online password broke. With leaks and dumps become all too common, that string of characters – no matter the combination of numbers, upper or lower case letters – you use as passwords for pretty much all your access to online services simply can’t protect you anymore. We’ve seen how 8.1 million people in the United States fall victim to identity theft every year, and a further 1.6 million households have had their bank accounts compromised.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Worldwide mobile data traffic is expected to increase 13-fold over the next five years and reach some 11.2 exabytes per month (or 134 exabytes annually) by 2017, according to he Cisco® Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017. “How much is 134 exabytes, exactly?”, you ask. That’s almost three million times the amount of information contained in all the books ever written.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Demo Day-type organized pitches in a large conference setting to an audience of investor types are a great way to expose aspiring startups to the world, but it’s still quite limiting – there’s only that many startups that can be showcased in a day, and not every investor will be interested in every single startup especially if they fall outside their preferred areas of interest.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

One of the biggest problems that us mobile warriors, digital natives and the like have is assessing and managing the multitudes of digital content that we’re likely to have scattered all over the place – on our phones, on our desktops, in our public cloud services, etc. But hope may be at hand – at least for iOS users. Moxtra ( www.moxtra.com ) Binder is a social collection and collaboration mobile application for iOS devices that allows users to collect, access, and collaborat

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