The 4 Top Customer Service Screw-Ups You Must Avoid
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4 Ways to Make Your Boss Like You
Relationships between bosses and subordinates have existed since the dawn of humankind. But despite the millennia we’ve spent as a species handling these relationships, we’re still unequipped to deal with the tension…
How Real-World Retailers Can Better Compete With Ecommerce
Over the past five years, ecommerce has nearly doubled. However, if you’re a retailer, as long as you’re targeting the right consumers, you can thrive. In the report, “Product Touch…
8 Steps to Creating a Profitable Digital Course
At the age of 19, I began my own business as a photographer, living in my grandmother’s guest bedroom with $0.81 to my name. A few short years later, I…
Top 10 Tools for Maximizing Business-to-Business Sales
Anyone who’s been in the business-to-business (B2B) space for any amount of time knows that, depending on the product or service you’re selling, sales cycles can range from days to…
3 Tools That Keep Online Prospects Engaged and Alert
Find out how to optimize your website to give your customers experiences that will have the biggest ROI for your business. Register Now » Holding the attention of your online…
Containerization Gains Traction; We?re All Better for it
Cloud-based application development has taken big strides, and it’s delivering benefits for enterprises such as federal agencies. Application development has forever been a thorn in the side of federal agencies.…
Cloud Outages: Who?s at Fault?
Cloud outages do happen. So, how can you and your IT group minimize the impact on the company? Imagine a scenario where the unthinkable happens. Your company’s cloud provider suffers…
Amazon Positioned to Use Data to Dominate Where It Wishes
If Amazon expands into food delivery, it will obtain a treasure of consumer information that it can use for its next expansion. For those who think Amazon is a mildly…
Tech Execs Don’t Have Enough Time for Innovation
If your IT employees feel like they’re on a perpetual hamster wheel—working hard but not really moving forward—they’re far from alone: Tech leaders and staffers spend the vast majority of…
Data Drift Happens: 7 Pesky Problems with People Data
Making sense of data associated with customers, citizens and other individuals may seem simple, but it’s possible that the records don’t tell the real story. People are like snowflakes. No…
Unity Rules As OCI Launches 1.0 Container Spec
After a two-year effort, the Open Container Initiative has its image specification and runtime spec ready for vendors and container users. Container advocates remember why a Unix application can’t run…
The Sore Loser and the Supercomputer
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins In June 1985, Garry Kasparov, the highest-ranked chess player in the world, simultaneously played 32 games against 32 computers. He…
As Robots Take Over We Will Need More Innovators
The Hadrian X robot is made But it is not just manual labour which will be affected The World Economic Forum predicts that robotic automation will result in the net…
Is Innovation Unreasonable?
Thank goodness for Twitter. What would we do without this constantly refreshing stream of bromides, insights, accusations and occasional bursts of wisdom? Just yesterday while perusing the Twitter stream I…
Dear MENA Entrepreneur, Here’s What It Really Means To Succeed
Webster’s Dictionary Defines ‘Success’ as… Let’s be honest. If you are reading this, you are a relatively competitive person who wants to succeed. But what does ‘success’ really mean to…
An Egyptian Bus Transport Startup Has Snagged a Cool $500k From Careem
Dubai-based ride-hailing service Careem has invested $500,000 in a seed round in Egyptian bus transportation network Swvl. Swvl aims to provide affordable public transportation solutions to Egyptians and others in…
Cairo Angels Back An Egyptian Logistics Tech Startup
Egypt-focused angel investor network Cairo Angels has made an undisclosed investment in Bosta, a Cairo-based logistics tech startup. Bosta is an on-demand delivery platform that allows users to send, receive…
How ‘Hustle-Mode’ Is Trapping Thousands of Entrepreneurs
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The Top Stressor for Workers Is Not What You Think
From long hours to bad bosses, a number of issues can arise in the workplace. However, out of them all, most workers find that having unclear goals is their biggest…