The fintech industry has gained momentum, shaping the way both traditional and emerging financial institutions operate. It seems that the rapid adoption of cutting-edge technologies has become a norm in most financial services, including digital payments and money transfers, financial software, or lending and funding platforms. We decided to see whether the was a niche still unexplored. The result? Pockee, a financial platform that bridges the generation gap.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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:

AI and machine learning have moved from the fringes to the very centre of the technology debate. But which industry has the huge datasets, along with the capital and staffing resources, to make the most of AI? As recently reported by both PwC and Gartner, it is the financial sector.

You start working as a Project Manager. If the company is at least the size of Netguru (almost 600 people, including almost 50 PMs, and still growing), after a couple of days you will have this overpowering feeling that it’s impossible to do to your job. Honestly, this feeling will come back every once in a while. But this only *seems* unmanageable – after all, who is better at this than yourself, a ma-na-ger? In general, don’t leave things for later, you will forget about them or they will pile up and suffocate you (metaphorically speaking, of course). There is no way you can remember everything. You can try, but I am certain that your brain will fry or shut down pretty quick. Here’s a list of 10 useful tips and tricks on managing your calendar and inbox as a gift from me, a PM at Netguru.