“We Need to See a Shift Towards Global Thinking”. An Insider Look at the NY Fintech Scene
Tomasz Grynkiewicz
Whereas most people think of Silicon Valley as the promised land for startups, when it comes down to fintech, the landscape changes. The numbers speak for themselves - New York has beaten San Francisco in terms of fintech funding to become one of the strongest fintech hubs in the world.
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The idea of creating apps using only one paradigm for all platforms sounds a bit unreal. However, React Native enables to accelerate the process of building apps across different platforms, thanks to the possibility of reusing most of the code between them. Taking into account all the pros and cons, no wonder that many companies settle upon React Native for their mobile app development. Here is a list of examples of those that have leveraged this framework in production.
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The answer, of course, may vary. I hope I won’t surprise or disappoint anyone by pointing out that all I’m sharing here are my experiences and thoughts - there are no definite answers for such a question in a complex environment.
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Machine Learning Automation – What Kind of Tasks Can Be Improved and Automated in the Near Future
Mateusz Hapon
Machine learning brings a wide range of new possibilities to nearly all industries. A number of tasks that can be automated or improved with machine learning-based algorithms is growing day to day. Let’s dive deeper and try to establish factors that enable a specific task to be improved with ML, so we can understand better how your business and processes can leverage artificial intelligence.
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Let us tell you a story about a small startup that once only dreamed of growth and scaling up… and then succeeded on such a level that it even developed a full-fledged community of its own - in a way that extends far beyond the business itself.
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AI-driven UX design is one of the hottest trends for 2019. That said, product designers are not among the jobs and specializations expected to be replaced by robots soon. After all, coming up with the right product idea and executing it is a complex process that combines creativity and advanced analytics.
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The Android development landscape is changing at a neck-breaking pace. Emerging technologies change the way users interact with their devices, but they also improve the development process. It’s not an easy task to guess what the next few months, let alone the next year, will bring to mobile. We decided to give it a go and gathered senior Android developers and C-level executives from the top startups in Europe talked about the future of mobile development. Let's see what are their Android development predictions for the upcoming year 2019.
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The mobile app market is like the universe itself – constantly expanding at an accelerating rate. The Big Bang was over ten years ago when the first smartphones exploded onto the scene. Since then, these devices have become more and more affordable, data prices have dropped, and the app market has soared. The latest figures from Statista tell us that there are now 2.1 million apps in the Google Play store, and Apple users have 2 million applications to choose from – generating billions of downloads each year.
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Smart business owners have long known the benefit of focusing on designs that are not only beautiful, but put the user at the heart of a great experience. For many, though, balancing a competing list of priorities means that user experience is often seen as a ‘nice to have’, and takes a back seat.
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Jira is a really popular tool for tracking bugs, issues, and project management activities in general so you would think that the wide range of option it offers are just common knowledge at this point, and the adoption of productive integrations and apps has been exploited to the point where it is really hard to do something more effective anymore. The reality is a bit different, though, and there are a few reasons why most companies do not take advantage of the full potential of Jira, the main ones being:
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