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

Transformify

Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages. Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL.

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Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don’t Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future

Both Sides of the Table

Costs of product on YouTube content is literally 99% cheaper than traditional TV and; Distribution of content can now go viral and can predictably distributed via social networks. Over time if you produce compelling content you can package it up and repurpose it to distribute through other channels. You know you want to.

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

Corporate America is pressured to decrease costs and improve customer interactions and every Fortune 500 is a technology company. There’s been lots of buzz for the need for a shared, distributed ledger but 2018 is the year we see production level use cases in the wild. Some call this “ambient AI” and I just call it software.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. What We Discovered About Blockchain The Afro-Tech approached blockchain and distributed ledger as how it will affect African-Americans in everyday living.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Of course, there are still caveats - can they pass data security audits, what is your downtime risk and cost of downtime, what's the risk of the platform vendor. PIM based on Java that would be up-to-date on all your devices. Server and client in Java. Java as a platform wasn't ready to deliver on client side.

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Building Workflows should be easy - and they will be.with Zenaton!

Cracking the Code

The Zenaton team have spent a lot of effort on this and have built a robust platform on top of the Erlang Virtual Machine, well known for running distributed and fault-tolerant systems (Erlang is a programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with high availability requirements).

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When You Should Still Use a Relational Database Instead of NoSQL

www.readwriteweb.com

You simply dont see a cost/benefit advantage to moving away from proven legacy technology. This plug-in reduces development time to integrate the AppUp SDKs and buildsthe MSI needed to submit your application for distribution and sales via the Intel® AppUpSM Center. startupcto