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Chartered Accountants Can Now Take Their Work On The Go With New Online Tools

The modern-day Chartered accountant is a highly sought-after professional, with a critical role to play in businesses and organizations around the globe. As the world of business becomes increasingly complex and globalized, the demand for qualified Chartered accountants is only set to grow. However, as the business landscape evolves, so too must the skills and […]

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eBay’s Mobile App: The Best and Worst

One of the biggest and oldest ecommerce giants is eBay. In order to compete with Amazon, it added the option for users to “buy instantly” instead of the traditional online bidding. And it changed how users can rate sellers just as Amazon does. It’s not a surprise that eBay also came out with its own […]

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Encryption: Easy as abc123

What is encryption anyway and why are millennials so scared? Except for the tech-minded millennials, most millennials who hear the word encryption run for the hills and leap into the comforting arms of their outdated passwords. Encryption is a scary, technical sounding word. Which I think is a shame because you don’t need to be […]

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The Majority of the World Still Not Online

The Internet has an incredible potential to make the world more equal. The Internet allows anyone, no matter what their background, an equal chance to share their opinions and get educated. However unfortunately, even in 2014, the majority of the world is still not online. To date, 4 billion people are not online. Although the […]

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Security Hack Exposed 83 Million Households and Businesses

A security hack at JPMorgan Chase & co is certain to go down in history. Seventy-six million households and seven million businesses had their names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses exposed. The breach is said to have exposed personal information of former account holders and people who entered contact information at the bank’s online and mobile sites as well as […]

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Google Program Allows Users to Block Ads

Google is trialing a cool new program for web trawlers sick of Google ads. Whether they’re over repetitive ads, creepily relevant ads or just the bells and whistles of some video ads, any reason is suffice to block ads. But there is a catch. Websites and Google for that matter still need to make a […]

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One Giant Leap For Drone-kind

The Federal Aviation Administration has finally provided a path forward for the legal use of drones in the United States. Finally. If you haven’t already heard of these laws, here’s a quick summary: Commercial drones must stay within line of sight of the operator They can only fly during daylight hours They must stay below speeds of […]

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23% of Online Video Ad Views Come from Robots

Marketers and techies have been suspicious for a while about how many of video ad views are from people. According to a study almost a quarter of views are from robots. Computers operated remotely by hackers have been costing the advertising industry through this. It’s estimated their absent views will cost advertisers $6.3 billion next […]

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