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7 Linux Alternatives to Common Windows Business Applications

BeingOptimist

And, thanks to an enormously passionate userbase, alternative applications exist for almost everything you’ll find on Windows too. It’s only natural to start off our list with an alternative to Microsoft Office, the giant Office and productivity application that runs natively on Windows. LibreOffice.

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Facebook Focused on Pushing vr Forward

Socialmedia.biz

Facebook purchased the virtual reality company Oculus in 2014. While virtual reality was previously used mainly in gaming applications, companies such as Facebook are. Since then, Facebook has focused on pushing VR forward and expanding its reach into the world of simulated entertainment.

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10 Tips to Prepare for NMX 2014

Kikolani

We’re only five days away from one of my favorite online marketing events, NMX 2014. It should just be a sentence or two, and it should let the listener know what you do, who you do it for, and the benefits (if applicable). So I thought I’d share some of my favorite tips for preparing for NMX or any conference event!

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The Social Media Analysis Business in 2014

Net-Savvy Executive

Roll tape… The Year in M&A, Social Media Analysis 2014 I''ve been tracking companies that extract meaning from social media data since 2006 (it stays interesting if you let the definitions evolve with the market). One way to tell how things are changing is to watch where the money goes, and in 2014, more money flowed to consolidation.

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Google Activates Their First New gTLD Domain Name

Bill Hartzer

302·Found Location:·[link] Cache-Control:·private Content-Type:·text/html;·charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Type-Options:·nosniff Date:·Mon,·24·Nov·2014·19:16:13·GMT Server:·sffe Content-Length:·228 X-XSS-Protection:·1;·mode=block Alternate-Protocol:·80:quic,p=0.02 I don’t know if they are accepting any new applications now, though.

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Top programming Languages In High Demand At Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and other MNCs

BeingOptimist

Swift is a business programming language invented by Apple in 2014 to compete with Microsoft. This programming language was used by the company for Linux and Mac applications. This programming language can be used by developers to write command-line scripts and develop desktop applications.

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Introduction to NamesCon 2014 Las Vegas

Bill Hartzer

50 percent of new TLD applicants are here at NamesCon. Jothan Frakes introduced NamesCon here at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas Nevada. There are a lot of statistics about the conference presented during his introduction: 70 percent of domain industry is here at conference. Registries, Registrars are here. Lots of domain developers here.