Small Business & Startups

Expert advice on navigating your business and tips and tactics to being your own boss and forging a successful career.

  • Windows 10 Build 1803 Won’t Install To A Bunch Of Systems

    If you’ve been trying to install the April Update to Windows 10 and have hit a road block there may be a good reason. Microsoft has stopped the software from installing to computers running Avast Antivirus after some people experienced a blank desktop with no icons. This follows issues with installations on Intel and Toshiba…


  • Great, Here Comes 8K UHD To Supersede Our 4K TVs

    Is there an 8K television in your future? What about an OLED? IHS Markit seems to think both are strong possibilities at your place. IHS is an international research company that tracks manufacturing information rather than market trends, and given that most manufacturers place their parts orders well ahead, its predictions are always interesting and…


  • Facebook Changes Two-Factor Authentication

    Until now, in order to use two-factor authentication (2FA) with your Facebook account you needed to give Facebook your phone number. Which seemed a little dumb as, in order to improve your privacy, you needed to give the largest data collection service in the world more data. But that’s changed with a new 2FA system…


  • Slack Adds Actions To Messages

    Most of us have been caught in the loop of receiving an email or message asking for something but not having an easy way to move that task from your messaging platform to your to-do list. For a while now, Slack has supported the ability to do that but it was via “slash commands”. But…