Posts

A recent study from Unify showed that 50 percent of knowledge-profession employees feel that work-life balance conditions in their workplace have improved in the last 5 years. And while this may sound like a “glass-half full” situation, 32 percent said that their work-life balance had remained the same and 2 percent said they hadn’t worked in 5 years. This leaves a measly 16 percent of workers that are more unhappy with their situation than they were 5 year ago....

A recent study conducted by the AARP showed the characteristics typical of a victim of online fraud, and it turns out that one’s emotional state plays a large role in whether or not your are vulnerable to these attacks. The report showed that feelings of isolation, the loss of employment, negative financial situations, and concerns about debt are the most common feelings among people that have fallen victim to these scams....

Video conferencing helped keep millions of businesses’ cogs whirring during the pandemic and has remained a key part of workers’ lives since then – but webcams have always had longstanding security risks that users should be aware of. The feature promises to protect users from ‘camfecting’, in which hackers try to infiltrate users’ webcams without permission. Surfshark customers will be able to edit their circle of trusted apps that can access their cameras via the Surfshark app....

What is Swift? Swift is a programming language for iOS and OS X that lowers the technicality of developing robust apps. It’s also a much easier language to understand and operate within than Objective-C. Currently it’s only available in beta, but should be released to the general public very shortly. Why is it significant? Objective-C, while being an incredibly powerful programming language, is also extremely daunting. Even for experienced programmers, Objective-C was often viewed as not worth the effort to master....

Do you read Tech.Co every day? Once every couple of weeks? What kind of content would you like to see? Are we being helpful enough in providing resources for startups and entrepreneurs. Please let us know! Need more Tech.Co? Sign up for the Tech.Co newsletter today, and get the weekly wrap-up direct to your inbox. Here are this week’s Tech.Co Top Stories: Like what you’re reading on Tech.Co? Have some great knowledge and think you have what it takes to write some great content for others in the startup or tech space?...

Do you read Tech.Co every day? Once every couple of weeks? What kind of content would you like to see? Are we being helpful enough in providing resources for startups and entrepreneurs. Please let us know! Need more Tech.Co? Sign up for the Tech.Co newsletter today, and get the weekly wrap-up direct to your inbox. Here are this week’s Tech.CoTop Stories: Like what you’re reading? Have some great knowledge and think you have what it takes to write some great content for others in the startup or tech space?...

Join us this September in Silicon Valley for Innovate! and Celebrate 2016! Register now and get ready for a fantastic 3-day journey. Need more Tech.Co? Sign up for the Tech.Co newsletter today, and get the weekly wrap-up direct to your inbox. Here Are This week’s Tech.Co Top Stories: Do you have a copy of our book, yet? Order your copy of Startup Mixology: Tech Cocktail’s Guide to Building, Growing, and Celebrating Startup Success!...

There’s a lot of advertising that goes on about “smart televisions,” which we wanted to address briefly. When buying a TV, pay attention to what ports it has and the screen quality. Nothing else matters much. The “smart” features on a TV are rarely, if ever, used, because all those apps already exist on set-top boxes, receivers, Blu-ray players, game consoles, and more – usually with better interfaces, too. So don’t include smart features into your decision unless they’re absolutely necessary....

Knowing what your competitors are doing and what strategies are thriving in the industry can give you a leg up in business. You can keep up with trends or develop strategies to counteract popular trends with effective data about what the people around you are doing. Here are five content marketing strategies that companies have reported using in 2017. 1: Developing Brand Awareness According to 49 percent of companies surveyed, brand awareness was a top priority....

For that reason, startup competitions need to be inclusive. They need to have an eclectic array of startups participating in the events, a wide range of investors that could change the life of a hopeful founder, and above all, a diverse founder group looking to change the world with their startup. At Tech.Co, our focus on inclusion shines the brightest when it comes to our Startup of the Year competition, which takes place at our annual conference, Innovate!...

The validation board was honed over the course of 50 Lean Startup Machine workshops, which teach lean startup principles to entrepreneurs around the country. Here’s how to use it to figure out which startup ideas have potential, and which should go into the reject pile. Start with hypotheses about your problem and customers. A common mistake is starting with a solution. But solutions are worthless if the problem isn’t a real problem....

The Portal features a 720p, 10.1” display, a 12Mp front-facing camera with a wide 140-degree field of view and costs $199. The Portal+, on the other hand, sports a rotating 15.6” display with a full-HD resolution, and the same 12Mp, wide-angle camera. It costs $349. Should you want to invite Zuckerberg into your house, you’ll have to wait until November 15, when the Portals begin shipping. Now you might be thinking that you’d have to be crazy to let someone put a Facebook camera in their house – despite its protestations that it has a camera and microphone cut-off....

Chicago based Veritas Health is an online health publisher that specializes in musculoskeletal health. They have four sites: spine-health.com, arthritis-health.com, sports-health.com, and osteoporosis-health.com. All content on the site is written by physicians (they currently have over 150 physician contributors) and peer reviewed for accuracy and comprehensiveness. Their sites have almost 20 million cumulative page views per month. And according to Alexa, a company that provides commercial web traffic data, one of their sites (we’re not sure which one) recently beat out WebMD and Mayo Clinic in number of monthly page views....

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development “Better Life Index,” Denmark is the number one country for work-life balance. After the northern European city, countries with impressive scores included Spain, Netherlands and Belgium. Check out the other countries that made the list in the selection from the OECD: While the US didn’t make the top 10, they were fortunately not at the bottom of the list. Countries like Chile, Israel, Japan and the Republic of Korea boasted the worst work-life balance, with huge percentages of the population working more than 14 hours a day....

Waymo has said their cars will be kept offline most of the time to avoid any potential hacks, but it’s going to take some time for people to feel comfortable with a computer driving them around, despite the fact that over 90 percent of accidents are caused by human error. In the meantime there is plenty of car technology available out on the market for drivers to use that has been tested and in use on the roads....

Given the massive implications of this kind of technology, experts and laymen alike have been quick to discuss what the future might look like in the Metaverse. Even better, some companies have already had the chance to test out Meta’s virtual reality workspace. We talked with some employees from The Bot Platform, one of the first external companies to be offered a chance to test out their new virtual reality work collaboration platform, Horizon Workrooms....

There are plenty of people who legitimately think that it’s the one of the best pieces of vaporizer technology that’s ever been made. It’s difficult to argue with that given that Storz & Bickel have been able to stay on top of the market with sustained, strong revenue streams since 2000. Given the recent trends towards portable vaporizing though, the company knew they’d have to offer a suitable product to stay at the top of the food chain....

The company didn’t offer great salaries to those early employees, but they could have free room and board in a 14,000-square-foot mansion the company was leasing not far from Santa Barbara on the Central Coast of California. Rather than rent an office in Santa Barbara, where the going rate was $5,000 for a space that would be cramped quarters, at best, the founders allocated the $5,000 towards a sprawling abode in Santa Ynez....

Global 14, as he feels, is the way social networking and social media should be. It was inspired by the fact that while a lot of people know about Dupri and his music, nobody had any idea of what his other interests and ambitions might be. During his talk, Dupri mentioned that technology and music are driving down a very similar path, but when he comes to tech events, he’s the only musician there....

Fadell founded the smart-home company and sold it to Google himself. The decision to leave, Fadell claims in his blog post, was in the making since last year. This year, Fadell led a move to brick Nest-owned Revolv, a home automation hub, in a move that rendered it completely useless to its owners. Resulting bad press and Nest employees’ comments on Fadell’s management practices proceeded Fadell’s departure. As Tony Fadell phrase it: Marwan Fawaz will be the replacement CEO....