Articles by Nate Swanner

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  Improve Your Salary by Avoiding Silicon Valley

  [caption id="attachment_130845" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Your salary may go further outside of the SV tech bubble.[/caption] While developers and software engineers (hopefully!) love wha…
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  Twitter CEO Suggests Developers "Did Not Matter"

  [caption id="attachment_139341" align="aligncenter" width="4032"] Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey[/caption] Twitter (still) has monetization issues. In its most recent earnings call, the company again no…
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  'Square for Retail' Brings Big Changes to POS

  [caption id="attachment_139671" align="aligncenter" width="2560"] Square for Retail Interface[/caption] Square, the mobile-payments company, is changing how much retailers can do with an iPad. Wh…
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  Android Wear 2.0: Here's What's New

  Android Wear 2.0 has finally found its way to consumers via two new watches from LG. Months in development, the platform has undergone a hefty refresh, and makes Google’s wrist-worn wearables fea…
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  Will the Chatbot Craze Finally Die for Good This Year?

  A few years back, chatbots were one of the biggest tech stories, especially for the enterprise and businesses. As a prime example of user-facing artificial intelligence (A.I.), the hope was that…
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  What We Can Learn from Jawbone's Failures

  [caption id="attachment_108001" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Jawbone Up24[/caption] News is surfacing that Jawbone, the once-dominant fitness wearable company, will soon go under or pivot to…
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  Apple Pushes 64-Bit Apps: How to Update Yours

  [caption id="attachment_138519" align="aligncenter" width="1360"] Apple App Store WWDC 2016[/caption] At some point in the near future, all iOS apps will have to support 64-bit architecture. Whil…
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  Chrome for iOS Now Open Source via Chromium

  [caption id="attachment_135701" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Google Chrome[/caption] Google’s Chrome browser for iOS is now open-source, which may make it better for consumers and create new…
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  Google Can't Say How Ads Work for Voice Search

  Google, for all its technological prowess and lines of business, still relies on ads to power its bottom line. Its last earnings call again highlighted that its revenues are almost purely ad-base…
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  Swift: Most In-Demand Language for Developers

  [caption id="attachment_137468" align="aligncenter" width="2357"] Swift WWDC 2016[/caption] Upwork, a website for freelance developers, has released its list of fastest-growing skills for the fou…