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• Jack Dorsey asks users how to improve Twitter

  30-12-2016 19:43
  “Whats the most important thing you want to see Twitter improve or create in 2017?” Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey posed this question to the platform’s users on Thursday, and what followed was a lively discussion that lasted several hours and included thousands of suggestions. 
  Dorsey acknowledged in his tweet that he was following the lead of Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, who conducted a similar social media poll earlier in the week. But the stakes could be even higher for Twitter,
  
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• 5 New Year’s resolutions for small ecommerce businesses

  30-12-2016 15:47
  
  The beginning of the new year is a great time for the owners of small ecommerce businesses to take stock and note all they have accomplished the past 12 months. It’s also a great time to think about and set down in writing what they would like to accomplish in the next 6 to 12 months.[ Related: 8 keys to ecommerce success ]While most (if not all) proprietors of ecommerce businesses probably have “make more money” and/or “grow the business” on their to-do lists, we w
  
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• 10 biggest recruiting and hiring trends of 2016

  30-12-2016 14:58
  
  For IT recruiters, 2016 was a challenging year. With unemployment in the industry hovering near historic lows, an increased focus on passive recruiting, and on finding and retaining diverse talent, recruiters had to stretch the limits of their ingenuity to find the elite talent their clients needed.Recruiters have always grappled with an evolving job market, and IT recruiters, in particular, have to stay attuned to the latest-and-greatest technology, skills and experience and follow workplace ma
  
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• Tech outages of 2016 and how to prevent them in 2017

  30-12-2016 13:08
  
  DowntimeImage by Thinkstock2016 has seen major downtime events lead to lost revenue for a number of highly-recognizable brands and caused a severe knock to their reputation and consumer confidence. One of the most common causes of outages is unplanned configuration changes to a system, often when an immediate fix for a bug or potential system vulnerability unintentionally creates a much larger problem.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Outsourcing trends to watch in 2017

  30-12-2016 13:00
  
  This year, we saw outsourcing integration challenges multiply, production workloads and enterprise systems hit the cloud, and security hit the top of the agenda.So what’s ahead for 2017? Uncertainty for one thing. Industry watchers expect a number of shifts in the IT and business process services space — not least of which will be the initiation of more flexible outsourcing terms as the world watches and waits to see what happens once president elect Donald Trump takes office and Bre
  
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• 3 big leadership lessons learned from Trump’s win

  30-12-2016 13:00
  
  As we are getting ready to go back to work, and many of us are beginning to dread the trip to Las Vegas and CES, I’ll bet you are still discussing the election. There is a lot to discuss, like how did Obama do so well with analytics and Clinton do so poorly, how did Clinton spend her life in politics and yet not understand how classification actually worked, and why, after decades of manipulating elections in other countries was the U.S. so ill-prepared to have it happen to it? But I think
  
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• 2016 in review: The year in Android

  30-12-2016 13:00
  
  Android is in a very different place than it was when 2016 began. While the last 12 months were filled with much of the usual pomp and circumstance surrounding the release of new handsets, connected gadgets, and OS refreshes, the state of Android has never been more promising or less predictable. Google stepped out from behind the curtain and into the spotlight. Headsets took over smartwatches as the trend of the moment. And Samsung’s phablet woes opened the door for smaller players to ma
  
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• 2016: The tech year in cartoons

  30-12-2016 12:30
  
  January: Microsoft gets aggressive with Windows 10Image by John Klossner, © ComputerworldAs 2016 opened, Microsoft was trying to do something about a slowdown in the pace of Windows 10 upgrades that had started a few months earlier.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• 15 technologies that died in 2016

  30-12-2016 12:30
  
  Gone but not forgottenImage by Dat7 via Creative Commons2016 was brutal year in the tech business. Ambitious projects sputtered out, beloved niche products became unsustainable, and there was at least one colossal corporate embarrassment. Take a look back at all the technology that died this year—then console yourself by imagining it’s still being enjoyed by David Bowie and Prince.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• The 10 must-have utilities for macOS Sierra

  30-12-2016 12:00
  
  As Apple as tweaked and improved its Mac operating system, the need for third-party utilities just shifted—it never went away. A lot of the fiddly missing stuff we used to need an app for is built in, but Apple aims for the simplest experience for the most people, which leaves more advanced users or those that want a choice of how they carry out a task looking for alternatives.
  I’ve used many hundreds of Mac utilities over decades, and still rely on them to make my computing life be
  
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• The 10 best PC games of 2016

  30-12-2016 12:00
  
  The calm between the stormsImage by Adam Patrick MurrayThis is it. 2016 is over, and it’s time for us to take a long look back—all the way back to January, through 12 months of games. One will be crowned our “Game of the Year” and the remaining nine are all “First Runners Up” or “Second Place” or whatever you prefer.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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