Applying the right design principles to your checkout page in the first place could solve these kinds of consumer concerns. Here are some of the best practices to help you with that: Optimize Your Payment Options According to a recent research published by Connexity, customers prefer the following payment methods the most: However, if we speak only of millennial shoppers (who currently spend $600 billion per year), 25% of them prefer using PayPal for online shopping and 42% of them use it on their smartphones....

Ugly Page URLs Use Google Webmaster Tools to spit out a spreadsheet of all of your page urls. As you review it, look for urls that have equal signs, question marks and other non-letter characters. Highlight them and make a point of updating them so that they reflect a clear path and a keyword indicating what the page is about. You can also go through this part page by page, looking at the url one by one....

If you have an interest in broadening your skill set as a data scientist or want to enhance your knowledge of big data then The Big Data Bundle educational courses can help you achieve these goals. This affordable bundle will give you 64.5 hours of training in Hadoop, MapReduce, Sparkm and more, to help prepare you for the jobs of the future. These courses will provide a stronger foundation for your big data processing skills, machine learning, data science, workflow, and more....

The panel consisted of Mark Turner, vice president of corporate partnerships and strategy at Technicolor; Liv Erickson, virtual reality developer at Microsoft and cofounder of ARVR Academy; and Alisha Seam, robotics engineer at AT&T Foundry. VR Will Shift the Paradigm The discussion was more than informative on virtual reality’s rise to success. These panelists had a wide variety of pertinent experience that allowed them to elaborate on where VR was going, who was the most involved in the production and development, and what the major pitfalls were for future builders of this technology....

That’s right, Instagram is finally making business pages a possibility and the social media managers of the world are rejoicing. Much like their parent company Facebook, the popular photo-sharing app will feature a prominent “Contact” button for businesses that will allow users to easily reach out to the company in question. In addition, business owners will be privileged to detailed analytics and simple promotion tools that make ad production one thousand times easier for the every day marketer....

The Answer May Depend on the Industry In a New York Times article, Daniel Fine, founder of four separate startups, discusses his decision to complete his education at Wharton School of Business. One of the points that he makes is that while it is almost trendy not to have a degree in Silicon Valley, that’s not the case in other industries. For example, it could be difficult for an entrepreneur in the medical or finance sectors to get much traction without a college degree....

Employee advocacy group Apple Together has launched a petition to push for retaining the remote work flexibility options that Apple was forced to introduce at the start of the Covid pandemic in 2020. It’s just the latest in a wave of big employers who hope to mandate more in-office work, from Tesla to Google. We reached out to tech workers themselves to better understand the issue. And yes, we talked to them remotely....

One of the most important things we’ve learned along the way is that you have to be acutely aware of when it’s time to make changes in the way you track progress and results. When we first started Rukkus, we envisioned our success hinging on three major factors: having the best product, leveraging any source possible in order to drive traffic, and building a community around artists and performers. Over the years, it’s striking to think about just how much our goals and focus have changed....

That’s right, firms like Goldman Sachs, Cigna, and International Business Machines are just a few of the many companies that have turned to a video submission process when it comes to job interviews. Rather than filling out a lengthy application where you attach your resumé and then fill out your job and education history, you simply record a video with your responses. These companies can then watch them over and over again to nitpick everything from room cleanliness to your ability to tie a tie correctly....

Joel Trammell drew on his experience as an instructor at the Naval Nuclear Power School to share the notion that “a lot of people are naturally very good Number 2s and very bad Number 1s, and until they’re put in that position, it’s very hard to know how people are going to respond.” When people talk of management and leadership, he shared, they are often put against each other as opposites, but they are both key components of running a successful organization....

In tandem with Detroit Startup Week powered by Chase for Business, JPMorgan Chase has announced they will be increasing their initial investment in the economic recovery of Detroit to $150 million by 2019. This announcement comes after the original $100 million, five-year investment turned out to be two years ahead of schedule. Pretty impressive for a place once known as the largest US city to ever declare of bankruptcy. The goal of this investment is to build upon the city’s progress, create livable, inclusive, and sustainable neighborhoods, arm residents with the skills needed for high-quality, well-paying careers, and provide small businesses with the capital they need to succeed....

The study shows that many of us still prefer traditional payment methods, even if we have access to a digital wallet, although the reign of cash also appears to be waning. Despite the lack of uptake, payments by Apple Pay still amount to billions of dollars, and it is still the most popular digital wallet option for consumers. Apple Users Not Using Apple Pay The study, carried out by PYMNTS, shows that Apple has made little progress with its Apple Pay platform since its inception in 2014, moving from 5....

US government agencies are already forbidden from using Kaspersky products, but this move will usher in its removal from the private sector too. The news follows the German government’s recent indictment of the security service, with the country’s Federal Office for Information Security fearful that Kaspersky could be weaponized by the Kremlin. FCC Adds Kaspersky to the Blacklist The FCC has added Kaspersky to the US government’s list of equipment and services that pose a security threat, covered by Section 2 of the Secure Networks Act....

The worldwide web gives our kids access to loads of amazing educational tools and absolutely free knowledge we have never had. Yet, at the same time, the Internet has just too many materials out there that most parents would rather not show to their kids. Nobody wants their young kids to go on the Internet without any sort of supervision or monitoring. On the other hand, as parents, we all know that if we tighten the reins too much, kids will either access the Internet through their friends devices....

David Kappos, a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, writing about law firms and cyber espionage last year, said: Law firms are actually one of the most targeted entities in the world, and also one of the most vulnerable. Part of that equation makes sense: law firms have highly valuable information on file. This would be a goldmine for hackers, as the recent scandal of the Panama Papers exemplified....

Though it’s always fun and profitable to make our job sound incredibly opaque and complex, we don’t need to act like it’s wizardry. Let’s take a minute and talk about what actually makes a valuable link in clear and simple terms. Here’s what you need to look for to see if your link is going to do its job. Nobody Wants to Cross a Bridge to Nowhere You can’t have a good link if it doesn’t go anywhere interesting, and your product pages don’t count....

Sending off an email with your rows of flat text is no way to share information in a world that is so visual. For founder Daniel da Costa, this came to a head earlier in 2014 when – you guessed it, he was trying to collaborate on the purchase of a birthday gift for his dad. “So I thought, what if you could view the links in a visual format from multiple sources, with the ability to vote on each option and add comments without creating a pyramid of emails and links?...

1. The screen One of the biggest and most-talked-about improvements in the iPhone 6 is the screen. Apple is moving forward with their idea for a “retina screen,” and some of the rumors about the resolution push it over 2000px ranges. Whether it’s actually that detailed or not is about to be seen, but it’s definitely going to be a feast for the eyes. 2. Screen glass Along with the visual quality of the screen, there’s been a lot of talk about the glass cover protecting it....

Zuckerberg explained it all in a Washington Post op-ed over the weekend. Here’s the rundown on what he thinks is needed to stem the tide of bad content, data leaks, and tech monopolization that plagues the internet today. What Does Mark Zuckerberg Think is Wrong with the Internet? In the op-ed, Zuckerberg split his thoughts on global regulation into four specific categories: How best to curate harmful content, how to ensure election integrity, how to regulate privacy, and how to make data portable across platforms....

It’s fair to say that Google has had a hard time figuring out what to do when it comes to video calls. Sure, it offers great platforms like Google Meet, but unlike Apple — whose been steadfast with its iMessage and Facetime platforms — Google is all over the place when it comes to consolidating its own communication apps. Now, though, it seems Google is at least headed in the right direction, as the company is combining two of its apps into a single platform in service of a more cohesive ecosystem....