The cover letter is your first impression, and needs to pique the interest of the hiring manager enough that they want to continue reading, but also want to seek out your CV to learn more about you. It’s that important. The ideal cover letter should be no more than one page, and should highlight your experience, your wins, and your personality in a few sentences. The CV is where you elaborate; the cover letter is where you showcase....

Today, several months and hundreds of Zoom calls later, all this seems like a luxury. Our whole personal and professional lives seem to have moved online, and so have our company meetings and events. But even within the boundaries of the online world, it is possible to pull off an impactful company event. Our first ever fully remote offsite that we recently ran in our company has seen truly positive feedback from our colleagues, along with a wonderful 5....

This is a question many founders run into early in their company’s life. As a leader at Atlassian and now Freshworks, I’ve learned that it’s your job to stay focused and understand how the market is reacting to your product, to know whether you can take advantage of the moment or if you need to go in a different direction. If you do decide to scale, there are so many options: hiring a sales team, investing in more marketing, selling self-serve, and so on....

Founders are the most important brand ambassador for their business and are responsible for shaping company culture with their leadership style. But startup life isn’t always easy. The pace and pressure of running a small business are just two things that can make it difficult for founders to be good bosses. So, here are a few quick tips to help you hone your leadership skills. [Read: Here’s what tech founders had to say about their leadership mistakes]...

Many urban dwellers don’t have spare bedrooms that can be swiftly turned into home offices, or desks that can double up as a working space. In fact, I imagine that many of you will be reading this hunched over your laptops, sat on your sofas, or dare I say it, lying in bed. [Read: How we’re keeping fit while working from home] I’m not here to tell you why doing so is bad — we all know it is — but I am on hand to share some handy online videos that might help alleviate any discomfort or pain you may be experiencing....

The Size Size plays a key role. If you want a laptop that’s easy to carry around then portability is your main concern. Smaller laptops such as a notebook that has a small screen and a lightweight would be the best. More specifically, look for a laptop whose screen is at 12.5-13.3 inches in size, and a weight of up to 1.5kg. The Screen The quality of the screen should also be considered....

We live in the heyday of recently-born advertising technology. Ads served automatically grew from 0 to 30 million impressions per day. And that’s only within Google Ads network — imagine the combined numbers coming from hundreds of other ad networks and demand-side platforms. What has been often neglected in ad tech talks are the epic failures that led some companies to collapse. At the dawn of the new decade, let’s review the most common mistakes made by ad tech brands to avoid repeating them in the future....

Here are some of the top eHealth trends we predict will dominate in 2021. 1. The expansion of telemedicine Telemedicine, or the practice of clinicians seeing patients virtually rather than in brick and mortar offices and hospitals, has increased tremendously during the pandemic as populations around the world have limited physical encounters. This practice has demonstrated that remote consultations are not only possible, but also easy and often preferable. Some experts say that this is only the beginning, and soon the scale of telemedicine will increase....

“Dogfooding.” What’s that all about? The first time I heard that term was last year when we, the Marketing team, were planning for the quarter. We had a company goal of promoting lead generation through quizzes, a popular use of our product. So to better understand the opportunities and pains of other marketers, we decided to go through the process ourselves. Hence, eating our own dog food. So we created a quiz on marketing trends in 2020....

According to the research, the unbalanced distribution of charging points across the EU is too clear to go unnoticed. Specifically, 70% of all charging stations in the bloc are concentrated in just three countries: the Netherlands (66,665), France (45,751), and Germany (44,538). Interestingly, together these countries make up only 23% of the EU’s total surface area. This means that the remaining 77% is left with a mere 30% of charging infrastructure, scattered around....

Here’s a brief history of Facebook with significant milestones that helped it reach this mark: Mark Zuckerberg & co. launch TheFacebook on Harvard campus on February 4, 2004. Next year, it expands to more universities and changes its name to Facebook. In September 2006, it opens up accepting users older than 13 from any country with a valid email ID. In 2007, it first time starts making money by running ads....

I spoke to industry insiders to get the state of play and see an industry evolving from nascent to the mainstream, but for regulatory restrictions. In May, Walmart announced an expansion of its DroneUp delivery network to 34 sites by the end of the year, providing the potential to reach 4 million US households across Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. This creates the capacity to deliver over 1 million packages by drone in a year....

The event starts off per tradition, and the first few moments are filled with pleasantries and introductions. But then Trump answers the first official question. The crowd is stunned by what they hear. Trump’s dropped all pretense and said he’s going to “build a wall” and that “Mexico is going to pay for it.” In rebuttal, Secretary Clinton merely shrugs and says “no, totally. I like it. Let’s do that....

TikTok’s user base has grown rapidly over the lockdown period, with 315 million downloads in the first quarter of 2020. It is not difficult to see why it has found its lockdown niche: the infinite scroll of content there is addictive and less stressful than news-driven platforms. TikTok videos are usually made at home, and so creators are not at a disadvantage despite their humdrum surroundings. This is in contrast to platforms like Instagram, which has become a showcase for travel, glamour, and live events....

According to Chinese EV media outlet CnEVPost, China sold 3.31 million NEVs (battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids, and fuel cell vehicles) out of a 6.23 million global total in 2021. Based on data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA), this means that China took a 53% share of the global market, surpassing Europe’s 33% and the US’s 11%. These figures align closely with the findings of the International Energy Agency (IEA), published in late January....

While Adobe has had a beta version of Photoshop for M1 available since November, this is the first time it’s been available widely. Previously Apple users could run the Intel version through Apple’s Rosetta technology, which didn’t fully take advantage of the new chip’s power. The M1 version of the app, Adobe claims, provides a 50% performance boost compared to analogous Intel Macs: Be warned that there are a couple of recent features missing on the M1 version of the app, most notably inviting others to edit cloud documents and preset syncing....

These posts suggest that outbreaks will soon hit Manchester, Liverpool, Oxfordshire, Leeds, Northamptonshire, and Luton. The system was created by Dataminr, a risk detection tech firm with a track record of detecting where the virus will spread to next. It previously predicted outbreaks in London, Hertfordshire, Essex, and Kent, between 7-13 days before these areas had spikes in coronavirus cases. In the US, Dataminr forecast outbreaks in 14 different states....

YouTube, which has more than a billion users who watch over a billion hours of content per day, shows us limited data on the videos uploaded to the site including its number of views, likes, and dislikes — but the video-streaming site hides more in-depth stats about each video, like how often it recommends a video to other people. Guillaume Chaslot is working to change this. A computer programmer and ex-YouTube insider, Chaslot previously worked on recommendations at YouTube and is now the founder of AlgoTransparancy, a project fighting to bring more transparency to how people find videos on YouTube....

Many of the proposals now under study come from research groups that have spent years working to combat similar coronaviruses, particularly SARS and MERS. All that accumulated knowledge has allowed scientists to advance at unprecedented speed. We know, for example, that the genome of the novel coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2, is 79% like that of SARS. We know the “key” used by the virus to get into human lung cells is protein S and that the “lock” in the cell is the ACE2 receptor....

The Record’s Catalin Cimpanu reported that REvil has claimed responsibility for the attack and put out the call for the enormous ransom. If paid, it would make this the largest ransomware incident in history. At the same time, US President Biden said on Sunday “we’re not certain” who was behind the attack, and he’s directed intelligence agencies to investigate. How did this happen? Last week’s attack targeted VSA, a piece of software developed by an American IT management software company called Kesaya....