The right tools can help you optimize your time, and maximize your social media marketing efforts. But with so many to choose from, finding those right ones can be difficult. The growth of social media marketing has lead to an explosion of different productivity apps and assistants, all of which have varying benefits and features. The growing array of tools is both a blessing and a curse – it’s great to have so many options, but it can also be hard to know which is right for you, and whether, in choosing one, you might be missing out on another, better…
Author: Loknath Das
Finance Commission Chairman N K Singh on Tuesday stressed the need for a dialogue between the commission and Goods and Services Tax (GST) council to address various concerns on the taxation regime. He said the Commission had requested the Finance Minister, who is the Chairman of the GST council, regarding this, and has received a favourable response. “One of our areas is how do we engage, how purposeful can the finance commission engage with the GST to be able to bring the concerns to the notice of that constitutional body – that what can done to improve the outcome of…
At this year’s F8 Developer’s Conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stood on stage and announced, “The future is private.” It was a bold statement coming from the guy who has spent the past eighteen months tackling a firestorm of criticism over misusing customer data and information. Still, the intent – that Facebook is shifting its focus to private, messaging platforms – put a spotlight on a central issue social media marketers are facing: the social media landscape is changing dramatically and marketers must adapt to keep pace with evolving ad platforms. Change isn’t coming only to Facebook. Overall social media…
Dell’s SupportAssist software, a Windows toolkit designed in part to protect your computer from security vulnerabilities, has yet another vulnerability of its own that makes running older versions of the software a risk to your system. As noted by Gizmodo this morning, this new vulnerability was discovered by security researchers at SafeBreach and disclosed on Monday in a public blog post. Dell has now issued an update to patch it that you should download now. A serious concern here is that this vulnerability doesn’t just affect Dell machines with SupportAssist, as was the case with an entirely separate SupportAssist vulnerability from two months ago. This time, it…
Pedestrians pass in front of the Salesforce Tower in New York, U.S. Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg © 2019 BLOOMBERG FINANCE LP Hyperledger, from the Linux Foundation, is gathering more steam after welcoming two of the world’s largest top-10 enterprise software companies by revenue to the blockchain consortium. This week it was announced that eight new large enterprises would be cementing their blockchain journey by joining Hyperledger. Other than Microsoft and Salesforce, both already heavily invested in blockchain, the intake included a U.S.-based supply chain consulting firm, a Russian metal company, and a Polish tech company, among others. It is an important announcement as…
Following the launch of the OnePlus 7 Pro last month, OnePlus has already provided a full update to the camera software as well as tweaking other apps and the underlying code. That process will continue, and the company has highlighted a number of areas that are up next in the queue. OnePlus 7 Pro (image: Ewan Spence) EWAN SPENCE The details come from the OnePlus.com forum. A recent post talks about some of the features requested by the user base, and which are being considered and implemented for future firmwares. I want to pick out three. First up is the continued improvements to the camera…
MUMBAI: IT and software continued to remain number one in job creator in the country during May followed by manufacturing industry compared to the same month last year, according to a report. Job portal Shine.com found that IT and software showed maximum growth during May. The report is based on data on Shine.com platform in May 2019 comparing it with data in May 2018. Further, it revealed that customer service, which topped the list in May 2018, has shifted down to the fifth position on the top 10 list. The quality and testing sector has entered the top five for the first time…
It’s hard not to feel inferior to others in this digital age as social media has created an impression that everyone is having the best time of their lives. This resentment at seeing happy images posted on social media platforms contributes to poor mental health, especially in developing countries such as Indonesia, according to research conducted by scholars Sujarwoto, Gindo Tampubolon and Adi Cilik Pierewan. MedicalXpress reported that Indonesia is the world’s fourth largest Facebook-using country with 54 million users. Meanwhile, Twitter is said to have 22 million Indonesian users, making it the fifth largest Twitter-using country. The research, which was published in The Journal of…
BENGALURU: The mandatory Aadhaar linkage and the Crop Loan Waiver system software that was developed to implement the scheme may have just saved at least Rs 5,500 crore of taxpayers money. Multi-level audits, right from the level of banks, the verification process of self-declaration made by farmers through the CLWS software and mandatory Aadhaar linkage to bank accounts, ration cards and land revenue documents has helped the government identify anomalies, including false information, in about 7.8 lakh cases. With government hoping to pay off all commercial bank loans under the scheme by June and clear payments to cooperative banks by July…
Selecting software is a critical decision with significant implications. Evaluations limited to function and cost are insufficient given the financial and organizational investment. Assessing comparative risk in the selection process can help save your team’s sanity and, perhaps, your own. Two Real-Life Stories For their human resources management and payroll needs, a 130-person company selected a well-known cloud-based human resource information system (HRIS). Their implementation proved to be far more costly, complex and problematic than they envisioned. It was only after they had spent several hundreds of thousands of dollars more than budgeted for did they discover their selected HRIS…