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The Gig Economy; the answer to your productivity nightmare?

What’s the biggest killer of productivity in a business? An empty desk. A scene we see often enough: an employee leaves a business unexpectedly, leaving their desk (and position) empty. […]

State of Remote [Infographic]

Check out the original report here: Buffer ‘State of Remote’ 2019 Find yourself a role incorporating Remote Working now

Agile working and how it has evolved in recent years

What is Agile working? Agile working refers to the refining and streamlines of processes & systems with the goal of delivering results in a timelier fashion. The Association for Project […]

Business Intelligence, How does it differ from Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial intelligence started life as a story-telling device used by Mary Shelley in her novel, Frankenstein. I’m sure we all remember how this went down with the village locals! To […]

Why Java is still the top dog

Where it all began Java was first released in 1995 by James Gosling of Sun Microsystems. That company has since been acquired by computer technology giant, Oracle. TIOBE programming community […]

What is Microsoft Offering in 2018?

Last month global research & advisory firm Gartner released their report on the value of the worldwide cloud services revenue to have increased by a fifth from $145m in 2017 […]

Microsofts Acquisition of Playground Games (Revisited)

In June we looked at the impact the acquisition of Playground Games and what this could mean for the industry. With the recent release of Forza 4 we thought this […]

The Rundown on PHP

The acronym PHP stands for ‘Hypertext Preprocessor’ and has been around for the last 24 years. It is a server-side scripting language, designed for web development. It is also used […]

Testing & Quality Assurance trends in 2018

Software testing & QA is an important function for any organisation that produces Software (as a Service (SaaS) or as stand-alone). 2018 has been a busy year for the tech […]

Birmingham’s Tech Expansion

In 2017 Birmingham was named the most popular location for Start-up businesses in the UK outside of London for the fifth year in a row. Being based in the city […]

How to build a relationship with your recruiter

Building a relationship takes time, hard work, and a degree of mutual input for it to be a trustful, long-lasting and successful exchange. Recruitment is no different. Here at Applause […]

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