Not surprisingly, we often hear about major cyber attacks in the news. We rarely think, however, that we could be victims. Cyber attacks are not an issue only for enormous banks or billion-funded corporations. Hacks can take many different shapes and forms, from a simple computer virus to a massive data breach — companies are vulnerable to a number of…
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Whether you want to top up your knowledge on a subject or learn a completely new skill, there is no shortage of online courses to help you on your way. In fact, there are so many choices, it can be difficult to figure out which platform suits you best! To help you navigate the rapidly…
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Small businesses often find themselves in a challenging situation. These businesses have a great need for reliable answers to important questions that all organizations face: How are market trends impacting your business? How does your target market make buying decisions? What is your market share and how can we increase it? How does customer satisfaction…
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The world’s biggest banks aren’t immune from cryptocurrency euphoria, with a range of projects underway to explore how traditional financial firms can benefit from the innovation. Swiss banking giant UBS and 10 other companies say that they plan to use the technical idea behind bitcoin—a distributed ledger called a blockchain—for their own digital currency (paywall). This could…
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Opportunities for business rarely come to mind when countries like Afghanistan or Bolivia where neither property nor individual rights are guided. The country Afghanistan often conjures images of suffering, war and drugs, but that’s only part of the story, says Afghan startup founder Jamshid Sultanzada. In 2015, he founded PomTech ICT Solutions, an outsourcing company…
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Katalatto Guides the best and useful online tools that any Small and medium enterprises and startups could benefit. 1. Accounting & Finance Freshbooks: If you need online invoicing, time tracking and expense services, this program is easy to navigate, even for the most novice business owners. Wave Accounting: Quickly manage payroll and manage your business…
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Billing your customers is very important. Even more critical is getting paid for those services you have done. Thanks to the ongoing evolution of the payments industry, there are more payment tools and platforms to choose from to help find the perfect option for your business based on how many payments you receive, the type…
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Compared with Brexit, Bitexit seems a piece of cake. On August 1st, without much agonising or awkward negotiations, a group of Bitcoin activists and entrepreneurs managed to create a second version of the crypto-currency. It immediately gained a following: as The Economist went to press, a unit of “Bitcoin Cash” had a price of $460 and…
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The Austrian Economics or the Austrian School is a school of economic thought that is based on methodological individualism – the concept that social phenomena result from the motivations and actions of individuals. It originated in late-19th and early-20th century Vienna with the work of Carl Menger, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Friedrich von Wieser, and others. Either, this thought stream includes Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig…
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Friedrich Hayek was an Austrian-British, classical liberal economist, and philosopher. He was one of the most prominent connoisseurs of the Austrian Economics. Hayek shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Gunnar Myrdal for his “pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social…
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