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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. The most sought-after hires are computer programmers and interactive media developers. Websites such as 604jobs.ca

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

What are the drivers behind these figures and why Africa is so polarized when it comes to skills development and unemployment rates? Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. thanks to the well-developed tourism industry.

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Pay Your Payroll Tax With R&D Credits

YoungUpstarts

Starting in 2016, Research and Development (R&D) tax credits can be used to offset payroll taxes. The Federal R&D credit amounts to roughly 5% of the wages, materials, and outside contractor expenses in research activities related to product and software development, including: Product conceptualization and development.

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5 Agile Practices That Are Fueling Marketing Teams

ConversionXL

Agile for developers is not Agile for marketers. The differences between how agility manifests in a marketing team vs. a software team can be striking. While software developers prefer more prescriptive methods, like Scrum , marketers borrow heavily from the Kanban framework. Image source ). What will I do today?

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Developer Bootcamp Teaches Regular Folks To Code - and Maybe Get a Job at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

The Developer Bootcamp is designed to help anyone get started coding - and they might even get a job at a startup or tech heavyweight out of it as well. San Francisco-based Developer Boot Camp was an idea that started with a friend in need. You are a developer and you don't know it,'” Bishay said. So began Developer Boot Camp.

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#askadeveloper Your Web and Programming Questions

Up and Running

Are you wondering which web hosting service to use, or which programming language you need to learn, or what’s important to look for when hiring a software or web developer? About the developers. Lara Fields is the product architect at Palo Alto Software. Send a tweet! News Social Media'

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

June 5, 2012. Apple and Facebook are both platforms , in the sense that their software and user networks are utilized by countless software developers to build their own businesses. billion to developers and Apple paid out something like $2B or so. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets?

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