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Many of these traits are innate, meaning you’ve either got it or you don’t. Hopefully, you do. So, what exactly are these characteristics? Startups are looking for… Originally posted on Planted. Comfortable with the Unknown Startups are by nature ambiguous—and heavily resource-constrained—organizations. This means there won’t be any time for handholding. You might be given a project that you, nor anyone at the company, has experience with, but it’ll be your job to structure it and see it to fruition....

While smartphone technology has advanced, battery power has struggled to keep up. That makes portable chargers more necessary than ever. Making the need for a revolution in charging that much more pressing. Enter Magnetic Cables A magnetic cable is design for simple charging without all the hassle. They can plug into the Micro USB or lightning port of your smartphone to its magnetic connector. They magnetically connect with the adapter, which is usually plugged into the charging cable’s tip thus filling up your charge wirelessly....

But sometimes a misguided question leads to an intriguing answer. That’s the case with one question about technology and journalism posted today, “What technology has to happen for objective reporting to win over clickbait?” There’s No Good Answer to This One Plenty of responses point out that the issue facing journalism today is a lot larger than just clickbait. First, there was never a time when people read the news entirely for the straight reporting: “If anything, news was an eye-worm of information that slipped in between Page Six and the box scores,” one respondent writes....

The single sign-on, while not a major change to the casual eye, actually required a significant integration process across a diverse set of Google tools. From Google Earth and Grants to YouTube and Ad Sense, the new Google for Nonprofits now provides universal access to all programs and tools. Nonprofits will need to log on to a new service one more time to get access to the full suite of tools....

But it’s not all bad news, since implementing a BYOD policy can be a smart move for companies with a limited budget, and in many instances the employees may actually take more care of their personal devices than they would corporate ones. Let’s examine the pros against the cons and see if there’s a middle ground to be found with BYOD in the office. The Pros It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that almost everyone has a smartphone in their pocket or a tablet in their bag, and asking them to give either up would be a lost cause....

While his stance on controversial issues has ruffled some tech company feathers, any attempt to hack his campaign or the Republican party in general has fallen on deaf ears. But with the grandest Republican event of all kicking off in a few short days, hackers and cyber attackers around the world could be focusing their energy on a disruptive act the likes of which we’ve never seen. That’s not, however, what representatives are telling the media....

According to the Deloitte report, two-thirds of Millennials have a desire to leave their respective organizations by 2020. Two-thirds. That’s a huge chunk of the overall workforce. This also goes beyond Americans – Millennials from several countries across Latin America, Europe, and Asia were also surveyed and reported high percentages of Millennial employees wanting to leave their current organizations within the next five years. The Cause Behind the Job-Hunt Mentality But why do Millennials feel this way?...

And, as of this march, the chatbot is helping out refugees: Browder reprogrammed it to help people compose immigration applications in the U.S., U.K., Canada. What led to the immense popularity of the chatbot lawyer? Well, plenty of different factors did, but one major one stands out, and it also sheds on light on a related tech industry, the Internet of Things. The Chatbot Lawyer Met a Real Need Alex Debecker, chief growth officer at chatbot company ubisend, recently blogged about DoNotPay, listing five reasons why it was such a success, including its simplicity, conversational UX, single goal, and built-in virality....

It seems like every single week, a new study comes out about the importance of visual and video content. Whether it’s Facebook’s prediction that your News Feed will be almost entirely video in a few short years or Cisco’s study showing that 82 percent of all online content will be video by 2020, the writing appears to be on the wall: visuals are up and they’re going to stay that way for a long, long time....

A study from the World Economic Forum found that there are three main factors contributing to the altered funding means for startups today. As the study states, it has been reshaped over recent years by new innovations and confident investors that don’t see the status quo as a necessary means of providing capital to startups. The three factors are not only relevant to your startups goals, but also tell a story about the direction funding may be going in the future....

Stone has been involved in eight or nine startups in senior roles, though he only founded or co-founded three of those—Sports Rewards Systems in 2002, CashStar in 2008, and his latest venture, Forager, which emerged from stealth mode last week. He’s also worked as an intrapreneur within big companies like American Express and Unum; a job at the latter is how he ended up moving from Massachusetts to Maine. Stone is well know in Maine’s startup community for cofounding CashStar and growing it as CEO into one of the state’s most successful startups....

Apple and Samsung have been locked in a battle for smartphone supremacy for years now. While Google’s Pixel lineup is a more than respectable entrance in the field, and the likes of Motorola and LG are not to be ignored, they remain a distant third place to the behemoths of Apple and Samsung when it comes to US market share. However, tariffs from the Trump administration are poised to go into effect later this year, and the Apple CEO says they could cause some serious problems for the US-based company down the line....

Flexjobs, a job-seeking site, has pulled together information that measures the best states to land a telecommuting job. Yes, job seekers – location is still important for a telecommuting job. According to Flexjobs, about 95 perent of telecommuting jobs have some kind of location requirement. Why? Even if companies offer the option to work remotely, they may want workers who can attend in-person meetings a few times a month, to have close proximity to clients, or they have another location-specific job function....

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You will see a lot of familiar faces on this list, as well as a few behind the scenes players that are more involved in your life than you might know. The common component in these companies is a commitment to providing employees with more than enough compensation to guarantee a quality product. Check out the list here and feel free to let us know if your company is compensating employees even better....

There are loads of platforms available for spreading knowledge around the world. But with many different features and purposes, finding the right one can be hard. Let’s take a look at the top three platforms for selling courses online, and compare the various features offered by each. Uscreen No matter what type of video content you wish to release, Uscreen is the ideal platform for you. Not all platforms offer subscription services, and unfortunately, that’s how you make money....

From gaming to smartphones, we all love unwrapping the latest gadgets come Christmas morning, and we’ve collected some of the best choices for your friends and family that are bound to impress. Read on for our guide to the best tech gifts. See our guide to the Best Fitbit to Choose The Apple Watch doesn’t just let you read your phone messages on your wrist, or toggle through a range of pleasing watch faces, though....

Screens Are No Longer the Only Focus When it comes to user experience, web designers now have a lot more to think about. Until recently, all that mattered was the screen, because that was the only way that people connected or interacted. Today, the web is no longer limited to desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Virtual reality, augmented reality, wearable technology, smart homes, and other technological advances have disrupted UX design assumptions....

Treehouse helps you learn Objective-C, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, and SQL with over 1,000 videos made by real teachers. Then, you can practice right inside the app with Treehouse code challenges. This model has already attracted 37,000 active students. The app has a special keyboard with common coding symbols to make programming on the iPad easier. Students earn points for lessons they complete, so employers can tell when they’re job ready....

*The Ferenstein Wire is a syndicated news service. For inquiries, contact information for the editor is here. The impact of Twitter’s decision is hard to overstate, considering former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s recent ejection from American politics after he accidentally tweeted lewd sexts to young women. Many journalists, including the Washington Post’s Philip Bump, are outraged. Twitter argues that Sunlight’s automatic archiving of deleted tweets violates their terms of service, which they’ve put in place to protect users’ privacy....