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Moodle • Open Source Software for Online Learning

Moodle is a free and open-source learning management system (LMS) that allows educators to create online courses and learning environments. It was created in 2002 by Martin Dougiamas, a computer scientist and educator who wanted to create a platform that would facilitate collaborative learning and improve the quality of education for...

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What is an investment scam? And how to protect yourself.

An investment scam is a fraudulent scheme in which individuals or companies deceive investors with the promise of high returns on their investment, but in reality, the promised returns do not materialize, and the investors end up losing their money. Investment scams can take various forms, including Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes,...

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GOTO Conference 22-24 May 2023 AARHUS

GOTO Conference is a software development conference designed for developers, team leads, architects, and project managers. GOTO Conference is designed for learning, sharing, networking and meeting the best in the software development communities. You will meet and learn from software innovators and thought leaders.  

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Most common cybersecurity technologies

Cybersecurity technologies are tools and techniques designed to protect computer systems, networks, and data from unauthorized access, theft, and damage. Some of the most common cybersecurity technologies include: Firewalls: These are software or hardware devices that control access to a network by blocking unauthorized traffic while allowing authorized traffic to pass...

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Top 7 Data Warehouse Software and Services

A data warehouse is a centralized repository of integrated data from one or more disparate sources, organized in a way that facilitates reporting, analysis, and decision-making. The purpose of a data warehouse is to provide a unified and comprehensive view of an organization's data, which can be used to support business...

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Bitcoin rewards and NFTs may help grow the blockchain

From TechCrunch: Welcome back to Chain Reaction, a podcast diving deep into the stories, backgrounds and latest news with the biggest names in crypto. For this week’s episode, I interviewed Alex Adelman, the co-founder and CEO of Lolli. Founded in 2018, Lolli is a bitcoin rewards app that lets people earn...

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Domino's Pizza Enterprises spends $23m-plus on digital

From Itnews: Domino’s Pizza Enterprises' digital investment slowed in the back half of 2022, but still came in at more than $23 million. Its spend comprised a “digital capex” of $23.3 million, along with back-of-house systems upgrades reported as part of $5.5 million in other capital expenditure, which CFO Richard Coney...

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World AI Week

The world’s leading and largest AI summit gathers the global AI ecosystem of Enterprise, Big Tech, Startups, Investors and Science, the brightest brains in AI as speakers every October in Amsterdam to tackle head-on the most burning AI issues and set the global AI agenda.  Get ready for two-day of mind-boggling...

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Rebooting the Brain

The digital health sector has an increasing number of startups are targeting the brain. One of them is Kernel, a company who is developing advanced neural interfaces to improve, evolve and extend human cognition. Check out the speech from the CEO of Kernal Bryan Johnson. Video source: youtube; Cover image source:...

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Digital Economy Compass - Part 2 Social Media

Only a decade ago, social media was little more than a budding trend. Although social sites like Friendster and MySpace that had a decent level of adoption, the population as a whole and businesses had not realised the potential of social media. Facebook was founded at 2004, Twitter appeared around 2005,...

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Do you really save on Airbnb than booking a hotel room?

Airbnb tries to provide you "Unique homes and experiences all over the world". People from all over the world list their their properties on the platform. Each listing allows hosts to promote properties through titles, descriptions, photos with captions. A profile about your host is included as well as previous guests...

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The Pandemic impact to Airbnb

Airbnb's IPO has now completed. Shares were originally priced from US$45-US$50 per share it went up to US$55-US$60 the day before listing. By the time of the listing, the final price was US$68. Airbnb is a holiday rental marketplace. Users can book homestys and tourism experiences or become a host by...

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Why Netflix could be your best companion in the living room

Netflix is an American entertainment company founded on August, 1997 It specializes in and provides streaming media and video-on-demand online and DVD by mail. In 2013, Netflix expanded into film and television production, as well as online distribution. By July 2017, Netflix had 100+ million subscribers worldwide. Let's have a look...

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Tesla Came Out on Top

Do you drive a Tesla? If you have not heard of Tesla, it is an American automotive and energy company based in California. It is well known of producing electric cars and solar energy. After long time of having negative news in the media, it has finally showed signs of significant...

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What are the Most Popular Smart Phone Systems?

The smartphone market has changed a lot in the last seven years. Back then, BlackBerry was one of the key players, Symbianwas used by Nokia and Samsung was building his own. Fast forward today, the dominating smart phone systems are pretty well known - the Apple's IOS and Google's Android. The...

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Top 5 Smartphone Shipments

Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 358.3 million units during the Q3 2019, an increase of 0.8% compared to the 332.7 million units shipped in Q3 2018. Top 5 vendors are Samsung, Huawei, Apple, Xiaomi and Oppo. Quarter2018Q12018Q22018Q32018Q42019Q12019Q22019Q3Samsung23.5%21.0%20.3%18.8%23.0%22.9%21.8%Huawei11.8%15.9%14.6%16.2%18.9%17.7%18.6%Apple15.7%12.1%13.2%18.3%11.8%10.2%13.0%Xiaomi8.4%9.5%9.5%6.7%8.9%9.7%9.1%OPPO7.4%8.6%8.4%7.9%7.4%8.9%8.7%

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How Amazon Is Doing in China?

According to iresearch, in 2015, the top 25 Internet Companies in China by Revenue are below. Data Source: iresearchchina.com Some of the top 25 companies are e-commerce websites. In 2016, Alibaba’s business-to-consumer marketplace Tmall dominated the market with 56.6% share, JD.com accounted 24.7% share. Amazon had only 0.8% share. China’s B2C...

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PrestaShop launches its new website

If you are using Prestashop, it has just launched a new website. Prestashop is an open source, free e-commerce shopping cart software. With it, you can build an e-commerce website for free. It has more than 300 hundred built-in features for managing product listing, payments, shipping, manufacturers and suppliers. Prestashop provides...

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Top 10 Earning iPhone Apps in 2018

The highest earning iPhone Apps in 2018 brought in millions of dollars. Video streaming apps did extremely well, occupied 7 out of 10 of those top earning apps with Netflix as the top performer. Dating platform Tinder ranked No.3 which brought in 462.2mil. The one music app on the board is...

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SoundCloud survives but it's bad news for musicians

Audio streaming website SoundCloud has survived its do or die moment. In the face of serious financial trouble, it secured US$169.5m of investment from merchant bank The Raine Group and investment firm Temasek Holdings. As its CEO and co-founder Alexander Ljung said: “SoundCloud is here to stay.” Ljung is not, however....

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Netflix Is Having Rapid Growth During Pandemic

Many businesses have suffered big impact during the COVID-19 global health emergency/economic crisis, movie theaters, cafes, restaurants, and gyms are those business impacted the hardest, it’s hard to imagine that some companies profit from the situation. The COVID-19 pandemic forces many people to stay home for weeks if not months, so...

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