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Pandemic Technology Transformations for Start-up Businesses

The Startup Magazine

Employing social distancing, new health and safety measures in the workplace and other commercial environments, and the imposition of travel restrictions have bought about this so-called “new normal” and new pandemic tech innovations as well. Many SMEs are now using Zoom as the primary pandemic tech tool. Integrating Zoom and Slack.

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Ecommerce: How to Survive its Troughs

ReadWriteStart

This new shift impacted as much as a 4% improvement in total sales of brands that had made the shift. Brands started working towards creating their online portals to push for sales online while continuing their brick and mortar operations. According to big stats, Amazon’s ecommerce portal had started pulling about 6.1

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Digital Transformation And The Evolution of Apps – What’s The Link?

YoungUpstarts

We are now in the midst of the Fourth, characterized by the fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between physical, digital, and biological worlds. However, it wasn’t until 1983 when the first commercially viable mobile phones went on sale in the U.S. It was launched in 1994, and had over 10 inbuilt apps.

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3 Ways Technology Is Changing Small Business Lending

YoungUpstarts

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. Online calculators provide instant loan estimates, loan applications can be completed and submitted in a matter of minutes, and sophisticated web-based technology helps accelerate the credit decision process.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com.

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

Austin Startup

By the time Silicon Valley white privilege culture, tech magazines that promote only white faces, Ethereum/Bitcoin fanboys, sellout black tech wannabees and globalists promoting their blockchain consortium get a hold of this article, it’s already too late and the game already ended a while ago.

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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

Don’t get focused on the tech or how to dominate the market, just identify a problem and set about solving it. Beth developed her own intensive curriculum and, with the help of seed money from a student, founded YogaFit® in 1994 to fill the niche. After that, she used a combination of high-tech and low-tech to develop her idea.

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