Neither science nor technological innovation would be possible without financial incentives. Therefore, in order to fulfill your full potential as either a tech professional or a scientist, you will need to have at least a rudimentary understanding of how business works. And you will need to know how the politico-economic system that you live under affects you.
This section contains a range of articles that were written to help you understand the business side of IT and the principles behind the economic system that most of the global IT market exists under.
There are many ways of making money online, whether you do it as your main activity or as a side project. And today, we will be talking about the method that I am most familiar with – publishing online courses. I have been doing it as a side activity for a number of years while […]
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Social media is one of the greatest inventions of the 21st century. Facebook allows you to keep in touch with your friends, regardless where on the globe they live. If you have in-demand professional skills, LinkedIn allows you to move up the career ladder with only a fraction of the effort you would have required
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Virtually every business these days gets reviewed online. And it’s a good thing. If, in the past, you wouldn’t know how good a business is unless you personally know someone who used it, today you can know it just by doing couple of clicks on the web. Of course, you shouldn’t always trust all of
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Social media is built upon powerful manipulative algorithms that can influence behavior of its users. However, it is also a very powerful tool that can greatly aid you in education, building your business, developing your career and exerting your influence in other ways. Even though most of the mechanisms that social media was built upon
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Whenever you watch a news report, you see that the world has many severe problems that cause people to needlessly suffer. Very often, free market, which is commonly referred to as Capitalism, is what is blamed for creating those problems. After all, this is the dominant economic system in the world. The irony is that,
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In the summer 2017, we have experienced a significant heat wave in England. The temperature soared well above what is normal for June and air stood still for several days. England is not a country where many residential dwellings have any inbuilt air conditioning, so buying a portable fan or an air conditioner was the only
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When I was studying at university, I wanted to become a part of something that would make the world a better place. I didn’t want to be yet another cog in a corporate profit-earning machine. This is why I have chosen Environmental Biology as my bachelor’s degree and have later chosen Environmental Informatics as masters
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From time to time, news headlines tell us about one of big corporations avoiding a large proportion of its tax liability. More often than not, this applies to tech giants. As Google and Facebook were featured in the headlines for a long time, the tax liability that is avoided by corporations is often referred to
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We are living in the times of ever-accelerating technological progress. For most of the people, it’s a good news. Only a few years ago you wouldn’t have been able to watch a HD movie on your phone while riding a train on the way to work, or have a free video conversation with people at
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The web is saturated with user reviews. Everything is being rated by consumers: food brands, tech products, estate agents and even jobs. Online reviews are indeed useful. Before parting with your money or making a life-changing decision, why not have a look at what other users think about a particular product or service? But there
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