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Our research shows that the best CRM for startups is Freshsales Suite, offering low prices and plenty of features in an easy-to-use yet customizable platform that covers both sales and marketing functionality. As a startup, getting set up with business software is a double-edged sword. Yes, platforms like CRM can streamline operations and organize data, but they still cost money, which can cut into your budget, and your small team of employees might not be entirely up for the task of learning a new software. That's why we've collected some affordable, intuitive CRM for startups that can get you started at a low cost with a platform that your team will actually use. Plus, you can always check out our CRM comparison page to learn more about your options. Here are our top picks for CRMs for startups: https://tech.co/crm-software/best-crm-startups

Talk about a nasty hurricane season, not only do we have the remnants of Harvey, Irma (and possibly Jose) is posing a very serious risks to the east coast, and has already done a tremendous amount of damage to Barbuda and Saint Martin. While many of us are choosing to evacuate, the reality is that many will bunker in place and wait the storm out. Regardless of the choices each of us will have to make, there are numerous items that should be on hand, followed by other tech, necessities, and gadgets to make things a bit more comfortable. Weather systems like these are no joke, and there's a reason why government officials and first responders give explicit recommendations to evacuate, stay indoors, avoid flooded roads, and adhere to curfews. During such events, we strive to stay informed, keep our devices powered, and be able to communicate with those around us, and this list may help you identify some gap areas. https://tech.co/news/hurricane-gadgets-apps-emergency-2017-09

If you’re in need of a reliable restaurant POS system, TouchBistro should certainly be on your shortlist. It offers an excellent range of POS features — from sales reporting and analytics tools to more advanced tableside ordering and loyalty features — and it’s the most scalable solution we’ve reviewed at Tech.co. We gave TouchBistro an overall score of 4.2/5 because the POS is pretty solid across the board, and the 12,000 venues that rely on the software would probably agree. However, TouchBistro does lack some business development features and requires vendors to provide their own hardware. This prevents the tool from edging out POS heavyweights like Square and Clover. TouchBistro's pricing plan is pretty unorthodox for a POS system, too. But we’ll explain all of this and more throughout this guide, to help you determine if it's a good fit for your business. https://tech.co/pos-system/touchbistro-pos-review

Astra: Knights of Veda is a charming side-scrolling mobile RPG featuring a detailed, beautiful, yet grisly art style that will immediately pique your interest. The game’s plot is rather what you'd expect from a typical RPG title. However, it does manage to surprise you at times. You’ll enjoy searching for Veda’s fragments as you battle fierce enemies and collect gorgeously rendered heroes in this superb idle RPG. Astra: Knights of Veda features a fun, if somewhat familiar, storyline. The game follows a soldier who, after falling in battle, is given new life by the goddess Veda and named Master of the Book. Currently, the continent is under the control of Mad King Magnus, whose tyranny coats the land in pain and darkness. However, as the new Master of the Book, you may just have what it takes to save the kingdom. https://www.pocketgamer.com/astra-knights-of-veda/review/

CD Projekt Red won't be putting microtransactions in singleplayer games like The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 any time soon, according to comments recently made by the company's Chief Financial Officer. During an interview with Stockwatch.pl(translated via Google) Piotr Nielubowicz was asked whether future games will have microtransactions added into them. To this, Nielubowicz replied "we do not see a place for microtransactions in the case of singleplayer games". The clarification arrives at a time when microtransactions are once again the subject of fierce debate, due mainly to the controversy surrounding Dragon's Dogma 2's lengthy list of DLC items which released alongside the main game. Although it transpired nearly all these items were acquirable in game anyway, players were nonetheless hacked off at Capcom's attempting to flog them a bunch of extras when the game had literally just launched. https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/we-dont-see-a-place-for-microtransactions-in-single-player-games-says-cd-projekt-red-following-dragons-dogma-2s-dlc-fiasco/

n February 10th, 2024, representatives of the European Council, the European Parliament (EP), and the European Commission (EC) reached an agreement on yet another reform of the fiscal rules.[1] The legislative package still has to be approved by both the European Council and the European Parliament by the end of April 2024. While the new rules have thus far received little attention, they will shape the fate of the European Union (EU) economy for years. After a decade of partial relaxations of its older super-restrictive rules that pushed the euro area into a prolonged recession in the years 2011-2013, and the activation of a general escape clause in the wake of multiple shocks (pandemic, energy crisis), the rules will abruptly turn restrictive again, though less so than the old ones. But if the new rules go into force, their effect on the socio-ecological transformation and the European welfare state will still be profoundly disastrous. In announcing the agreement of the Trilogue negotiations, Vincent Van Peteghem, the finance minister of Belgium, which holds the EU presidency in the first half of 2024, claimed that the new framework “will safeguard balanced and sustainable public finances, strengthen the focus on structural reforms, and foster investments, growth and job creation throughout the EU.”[2] This is not correct. The discrepancy between technocratic rhetoric and economic facts is just colossal. The new rules will impede, not foster growth and job creation, and they put the Euro area on track for another deadly cycle of austerity that sowed the seeds for the rise of the far-right in Europe. They admittedly build in some incentives to raise public investment, but this step implicitly comes with new pressures to restrain non-investment budgetary categories, such as social expenditures. Further, austerity programs threaten to curb economic performance, which will work against the reduction of the debt ratio which is a central objective of the new governance framework. Even though significant long-term investments in the socio-ecological transformation and in the strengthening of Europe as a business location more generally are desperately needed, the necessary investments are insufficiently protected and promoted in the agreement. In fact, the new fiscal framework will severely constrain an increase in public investment, in particular in high-debt EU countries. https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/fiscal-reform-in-the-eu-a-dangerous-new-framework

Hyundai revealed the Ioniq 5 N eN1 Cup car at a practice session leading up to the 2024 Hyundai N Festival, a one-make race series to be held in South Korea in late April. The Cup car is based on the roadgoing Ioniq 5 N and features racing upgrades including slick tires and a stripped interior. The new race car will make its debut at the Inje Speedium circuit in South Korea on April 27 as part of the new eN1 class of racing. With the introduction of the new Ioniq 5 N eN1 Cup car, Hyundai is taking its Ioniq 5 N racing in an all-new electric professional racing series. The new Cup car builds on the already sporty Ioniq 5 N, the performance version of the Ionia 5 electric SUV, bringing it up to the demanding level required for professional racing. Hyundai started by giving the car a complete makeover. The front end is all new with a large lip and prominent dive planes protruding from a more functional front bumper. New over-fenders round out the eN1's body-kit changes, while a gargantuan rear wing sits proudly at the rear of the car. We want whatever sort of weight-loss diet Hyundai used to get the Ioniq 5 N so svelte. While the roadgoing car weighs just over 4900 pounds, Hyundai estimates the Cup car tips the scales at closer to 4350 pounds. Unsurprisingly, the secret to shedding all those pounds is simply removing the excess stuff. Gone are the bulky 21-inch wheels with all their unnecessary weight. They've been replaced by a set of lightweight 18-inch forged wheels wrapped in motorsport slicks. The standard glass windows are swapped for lighter polycarbonate replacements, and the hood is replaced with a duplicate made of fiberglass-reinforced plastic (FRP). https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60357334/hyundai-ioniq-5-n-en1-cup-car-revealed/

avid Bonney realised his employer, the Royal Air Force, was investigating his sexuality within minutes of entering the guard room at RAF Mount Batten, a military base near Plymouth. It was 1991 and Bonney, then a 21-year-old medical assistant, had just been escorted from his post at the medical centre by military police. He sat down in the guard room, opposite the duty staff, and the interrogation began. “Questions about my sex life,” says Bonney, now 55. “Questions about witnessing me with other gay people. Questions about things I said on the phone to my mother.” He says there was shouting, swearing, banging on the desk. “Threats to me, threats to my career, threats to my family.” Bonney hadn’t told anyone in the military that he was gay. Before 2000, it was illegal for gay people to serve in the British armed forces and he knew a confession would cost him his career. “They wanted to get rid of me,” he says. “Anything they could to just mani[CENSORED]te me into confessing, to frighten the hell out of me.” https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/02/1994-i-was-last-person-sent-to-prison-uk-for-being-gay-still-being-punished

An animal lover is preparing to travel to Ukraine to deliver pet food and supplies. Julian Hales has made several trips since the Russian invasion in 2022 and plans to return to the port city of Kherson later this month. As well as delivering supplies the 52-year-old from Sheffield will also help abandoned street animals. He said he had been inspired to "do something" following the death of his wife in January 2022 aged 47. Kherson was captured just days after Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago, before troops were forced to withdraw in November 2022. Reflecting on his previous trips Mr Hales said: "Just seeing the state of the animals on the streets in freezing conditions, half blown-up, injured, sick, it's something you can't imagine until you actually see it. "You can see the photos, you can see the videos, you see people talking, but until you actually get there and experience it and you can touch it, smell it and hear it." https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-68546733

Ajax chief executive Alex Kroes has been suspended by the Dutch club's supervisory board over allegations of insider trading. In a statement, the club board alleges Kroes bought more than 17,000 shares in the club a week before his appointment was announced on 2 August. The board said it sought external legal advice which "indicates that he likely engaged in insider trading". Ajax say they intend to sack the 50-year-old Dutchman. Kroes, who has only been in the job for two weeks, said he would seek a judgement on his acquisitions by Dutch financial watchdog AFM and did not accept the board's decision. He said he had purchased club shares in stages from April 2022 to July 2023, stopping once his appointment at Ajax was confirmed "to avoid any misunderstandings". Kroes added he purchased the shares "out of confidence in the club. Not to make quick money" and had "provided full disclosure" to the supervisory board about his assets. "I believe that you radiate confidence to your fellow shareholders and stakeholders if you buy shares yourself and therefore also run financial risks yourself," he said. "The AFM can then independently assess whether or not I have acted contrary to the law and the severity of this. Naturally, I will bear the consequences." Board chairman Michael van Praag said the club is "deeply dismayed" and Kroes' position is "untenable". In a statement, Van Praag said: "It is highly detrimental to the club and everyone who holds it dear to them. "Alex Kroes' actions are not in line with what Ajax stands for. The timing of his share purchase indicates insider trading. Such a violation of the law cannot be tolerated by a publicly listed company, especially when it involves the CEO." Shareholders will hear the details about Kroes' intended dismissal at an extraordinary general meeting, with the supervisory board then having the final say over his future. Despite being appointed in August, Kroes only began his role last month because of a non-competition clause in his contract at previous club AZ Alkmaar, where he was director of international football strategy. The former Ajax youth player succeeded Edwin van der Sar, who resigned at the end of last season after the team finished third in the Dutch league and failed to qualify for the Champions League for the first time since 2009. They are currently in fifth place in the Eredivisie, 28 points behind leaders PSV Eindhoven. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/68711341

Israeli military expresses 'sincere sorrow' over the deaths of seven aid workers The Israeli military has expressed “sincere sorrow” over the deaths of seven aid workers killed in an airstrike on Gaza, but stopped short of accepting responsibility for it. Israeli military spokesperson, Rear Adm Daniel Hagari, said the incident would be investigated in the “Fact Finding and Assessment Mechanism”, which his statement called an “independent, professional, and expert body”, without giving further details. He said he had spoken to the WCK founder, chef José Andrés, and expressed his deepest condolences. “We also express sincere sorrow to our allied nations who have been doing and continue to do so much to assist those in need,” he said in the statement. The strike hit an aid convoy, killing seven people working with World Central Kitchen (WCK), a charity spearheading efforts to alleviate looming famine in Gaza. They were delivering desperately needed food aid that had been brought in by sea. The WCK said Israel was behind the airstrike. Numerous western officials and ministers have demanded an explanation for the deaths after WCK said those killed were from the UK, Australia, Poland and Palestine, as well as a US-Canada dual citizen. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/02/middle-east-crisis-live-updates-israel-gaza-war-today-gaza-foreign-aid-workers-killed-idf-investigation

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Project management software platforms have been used by millions of businesses to plan and deliver projects for years now. In 2024, however, they're frequently used as central, digital hubs where tasks, documents, and data can be stored – and meaningful decisions are made. In fact, in the past two years, more and more teams have shifted all of their operations to project management platforms. After testing a range of project management tools' features, customer support options, integrations, and ease of use, we awarded monday.com the highest score overall. It makes advanced features like its automation builder incredibly easy to use, and has a clean, uncluttered interface – so it's perfect for beginners and less tech-savvy teams. However, monday.com isn't the cheapest, and if you're one of many businesses that just don't have much leftover budget for more software, a provider like Teamwork or Jira might be a better fit. To find the best project management software platform for your business, take a look at our shortlist below, and for more information, simply scroll down to the review sections contained within this article. https://tech.co/project-management-software/best-project-management-software

IoT has already transformed multiple industries, ranging from banking to fleet management. Health and wellness seem to be the new frontier for conquering. It’s predicted that remote health monitoring alone will push the global health market to a compound annual growth rate of more than 24 percent by 2020. What’s more curious though, is that IoMT (Internet of Medical Things) goes well beyond the clinical institutions and now enters the personal wellness space. Considering that the health and wellness app market will reach 26 billion dollars this year, tapping into this niche may sound promising for startups. The pioneers are already there, however. The following four cases detail the variety of ways in which IoT is transforming the wellness space today. Re:brain Re:brain, now being developed by Actum Technology, a wearable headset that uses EEG technology along with brain sensing devices to collect information on the cognitive activity of its wearers. It then submits that information to a smartphone app giving its owners meaningful feedback. The app also provides actionable suggestions to users to improve brain function. Areas of activities that are monitored impact relaxation, stress recovery and rejuvenation, memory and information processing, and thinking and brain efficiency. The result of all of this is that users gain a very quick and deep understanding of their brain’s functionality and performance. This let’s them know what they can realistically expect of themselves. Motiv Fitness Ring As po[CENSORED]r as they are, there have been some long running complaints about fitness wearables. They aren’t very discreet, often clash (in style if not color) with the wearer’s wardrobe, and have to be removed before showering and other activities. The Motiv ring was designed to address these issues while still providing valuable feedback on exercise, sleep, and heart rate. Further, while other wearables simply track steps, the Motiv uses technology to track and record activity based on its true impact to the user’s well-being. For example, steps taken on a leisurely walk are not the same as steps taken on a mile long sprint. Sleep Number IT Bed The IT Bed uses technology to track your movement, heart rate, and breathing. IT Bed then uses this information to help sleepers understand what is and is not going right with their sleep patterns, and sends information to a smartphone app. In addition to monitoring the sleeper’s activities, the bed also tracks environmental factors such as room temperature. The In addition to sending that information along with suggestions to improve sleep such as adjusting room temperature, the IT Bed also communicates with fitness trackers, enabling both devices to provide even more useful feedback. S-Skin From Samsung For many, achieving and maintaining healthy skin is a real problem. Issues range from acne to dryness to redness and irritation. Samsung’s S-Skin product, created in their recently minted C Labs, is a portable device that can analyze the skin as well as provide treatment along with a biodegradable micro needle patch, and pairs with a smartphone app. The patch penetrates the skin to allow the device to collect information about the skin, and it allows LED light treatment to reach affected areas. The device also passes information onto the app which stores the data and tracks changes. In addition, it also collects information from the user on habits and activities that could impact skin health. IoT is clearly having a deep impact in all areas of health and wellness. In the near future more companies will begin exploring new ways to incorporate smart devices into personal well-being and self care. https://tech.co/news/iot-gadgets-health-wellness-2017-10

8×8 stopped listing its prices publicly at the end of 2023 and urges customers looking for specific pricing information to contact its sales team. Therefore, this article lists the last known prices offered by 8×8 and intends to give a ballpark estimate of how much VoIP costs in this instance. According to this information, 8×8 pricing starts at $24 per user, per month for its entry-level X2 plan. The VoIP provider offers four other tiered VoIP plans, with its most expensive plan, X8, costing $140 per user, per month. The cost of 8×8's average plan and the absence of a free version make the VoIP service less affordable than alternatives like Vonage and Google Voice. However, 8×8's advanced toolkit, in particular its sales and staff training features, still makes the service a great value for businesses with specific telephony needs. In this 8×8 pricing guide, we'll break down the provider’s prices, what it can offer your business, the best package to choose from, and how it compares to its competitors. https://tech.co/business-phone-systems/8x8-pricing-and-features-comparison

Last week at GDC, King gave attendees a peek behind the curtain at the complex process behind how it defines the success of each Candy Crush Saga level. Head of central insights Jan Wedekind and senior director of data science Xavier Guardiola started by noting that millions of players have passed the 10,000th level in Candy Crush Saga, and most of them have not paid a penny. Guardiola said that at launch, Candy Crush Saga’s notoriously difficult level 65 was originally intended to be the final stage of the game. It was too hard, and as a result it became both the highest converting level in the game and the stage that has “has made the most revenue ever,” said Guardiola. But it has also caused the most player churn, he said. It was one of the first levels King A/B tested after launch, the results of which naturally showed that increasing difficulty raised conversions short term. Over the long run, though, making the level easier retained players longer. https://mobilegamer.biz/how-king-defines-a-good-candy-crush-saga-level-and-why-it-constantly-prunes-the-bad-ones/

After a lot of wrangling with regulators, Microsoft recently spent $69 billion-with-a-b to acquire Activision Blizzard, after which it almost immediately cut 1,900 jobs across its gaming business. Not great news for anyone, unless perhaps you own MSFT stock. In an interview with Polygon about the driving forces behind layoffs at Microsoft and across the industry, Xbox boss Phil Spencer pointed the finger at—well, really, just capitalism in general. The problem, according to Spencer, is a "lack of growth" across the videogame industry as a whole. "When you have an industry that is projected to be smaller next year in terms of players and dollars, and you get a lot of publicly traded companies that are in the industry that have to show their investors growth—because why else does somebody own a share of someone’s stock if it’s not going to grow?—the side of the business that then gets scrutinized is the cost side," Spencer said. "Because if you’re not going to grow the revenue side, then the cost side becomes challenged." If you can't grow by making more money, in other words, then you can "grow"—in terms of profits, share price, EBITDA, and all those other metrics that Wall Street types care about— by spending less. The obvious question is, why are you bringing in all these new people if you can't afford to pay them? Of course, Microsoft can afford to pay those people, it just doesn't want to, because, that's right, growth. https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/phil-spencer-blames-capitalism-for-games-industry-woes-i-dont-get-the-luxury-of-not-having-to-run-a-profitable-growing-business/

The UK is facing a skills shortage and a productivity problem. A key driver of this stagnation has been the decline in both state and private sector investment in skills. Alongside austerity-era cuts to state spending on adult education, total employer investment in skills declined 19% per employee, in real terms, between 2011 and 2022, with sharper declines in larger businesses (-35%), primary (-44%), and public (-38%) service sectors, as well as the north east (-27%) and south west of England (-32%). While the support available to workers wishing to upskill has rolled back, the wider economic context has made participation harder. The high cost of living, matched by the proliferation of low-security work, means few workers can embrace the risk presented by mid-career upskilling. An under-equipped workforce leaves businesses heavily reliant on migration to fill surging rates of skills-shortage vacancies. Facing significant international competition in emerging green industries and an urgent need to decarbonise the economy, we identify two key areas in which the UK lags behind its international competitors in supporting large-scale upskilling. The first, in providing adequate support to workers with the subsistence costs of upskilling and an upskilling offer sufficient to persuade workers with financial and caring responsibilities to engage. The second, in providing incentives which de-risk skills investment for businesses against the backdrop of high-frequency job switching. The government is at a key stage in designing the next generation of upskilling support: the Lifelong Learning Entitlement. A process is underway to reform the student finance system into something more akin to a personal/individual learning account. In this working paper, we propose, and seek feedback on, the introduction of a new overarching principle of the government’s upskilling offer. The proposed framework is based on a simple commitment to a National Skilling Wage (NSW). Important both for the message it sends, and its potential to boost productivity, the NSW would provide workers and businesses with the financial stability, and confidence, to commit to (re)training. We propose a role for the NSW in supporting both those in and out-of-work, upskilling via two core reforms to the government’s support for upskilling: Switching state support from corporation tax relief to a payroll tax credit at the National Skilling Wage. Current corporation tax relief on training investment should be scrapped. Its design, which is untargeted, profit-contingent, and opaque, and favours large businesses training already highly skilled workers, does not serve the needs of present skills challenges. Instead, we propose a new, flat-rate payment at the NSW to all employers for every hour a worker spends on an approved training course. This payment would take the form of a tax credit, similar to the concept of a human capital tax credit proposed by others, but made via payroll taxes instead of corporation tax. This credit would increase the level of state support for upskilling, allow targeting of additional incentives at key skills-shortage courses, increase the incentive for businesses to upskill lower-paid workers, and expand support to all employers irrespective of their profitability (including charities and other non-profit-motivated organisations). Reforming student finance into an Personal Learning Account which pays the National Skilling Wage. Student finance is due significant reform as the new Lifelong Learning Entitlement is designed and rolled out. In its current design, the student maintenance loan will not prove to be an adequate incentive to attract mid-career workers and workers with financial and caring responsibilities to undertake independent upskilling during a cost-of-living crisis. A Personal Learning Account model, providing a simple drawdown facility throughout a learner’s career should expand uptake, but critically, the account should pay the NSW, equivalent to at least the real living wage, on an hourly basis for every hour of total qualification time studied on an approved qualification. A key priority of our proposed policies is to de-risk skills investment for both the business and the individual. This should include individuals who are unemployed and/or in receipt of means-tested benefits. The NSW should also benefit this group, but further work is required to understand how these reforms would interact with the benefits system. Alongside our proposed reforms we consider issues of state costs and revenue raising. We first consider the potential for the government to apply an additional charge to employers’ national insurance on the trained worker in the months following completion of their training course. This charge, illustratively representing 50% of the total hourly tax credit, could mean businesses partially repay the state support received. We also consider revenue-raising options such as widening the uses of the apprenticeship levy funds, replacing corporation tax relief on skills investment, and clawing back the productivity gains which will result from boosted skills investment via corporation tax. https://neweconomics.org/2024/03/solving-the-uks-skills-shortage