Even Apple hasn't escaped Covid unscathed with iPhone sales taking an 8.2% dip in Q1 this year. However, when you consider that the smartphone market as a whole dropped 20%, they're doing pretty well. Is constant innovation the secret to their success? They certainly seem to think so as they reveal their latest releases.
For many businesses, Slack has been the unsung hero of 2020. As reliable for discussing critical business strategy as it is for keeping morale high with well-timed cat GIFs, the communication and collaboration solution is determined not to rest on its laurels with a slew of new features lined up for release.
While many areas of the job market are feeling the impact of Covid-19 and the the resultant economic instability, demand for IT roles with particular skills or experience is only growing. Take a look at the most valuable skills you could learn next year.
Even in supposedly technologically advanced countries like the UK and the US, many critical government processes still rely on systems that were developed in programming languages that are 50+ years old and which were never designed for the internet. Why did they get left behind and will they ever catch up?