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Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), What is it and how does it affect your business?
Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), What is it and how does it affect your business?

SCA’s primary aim is to reduce fraud. It is set to achieve this by requiring additional validation steps when making purchases online.

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17 Jun, 2019 3 min read
Studio Life
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Announcing the winner of our fourth birthday giveaway

Making a decision as to who should win was really difficult. We had over 50 amazing entries, each with their own unique back story.

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13 Jun, 2019 2 min read
Unexpected Entrepreneurs
Intercom: On Starting Up [2022 Update]
Intercom: On Starting Up [2022 Update]

Intercom’s products are an undeniable success. With more than 450 employees around the world, Intercom is focused on creating the world’s best suite of messaging-first products.

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14 May, 2019 3 min read
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Creative X Business

Starting in July, Creative X Business will provide a monthly opportunity for creatives and business owners to meet, share and learn in the heart of Southampton.

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06 May, 2019 1 min read
Studio Life
Celebrating our fourth birthday
Celebrating our fourth birthday

Over Steadfast Collective’s four years in business, MD Pete has seen the business grow from its early one-man band days to a thriving digital studio with seven permanent members of staff, an office by the New Forest, and a list of amazing clients.

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29 Apr, 2019 3 min read
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Why you should choose Shopify as your eCommerce platform

Shopify is a fully-managed eCommerce platform which has the perfect balance of being both client and developer friendly.

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23 Apr, 2019 3 min read
Development
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What is a web application?

Also known as ‘digital products’ what exactly are ‘web applications’ and why do we care so much about building them?

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18 Apr, 2019 3 min read
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Your web applications should be designed like cities.

A few weeks ago, I had a real-life UX problem while in Manchester, which led me to think further about how we all should be building our applications.

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14 Mar, 2019 4 min read
Studio Life
Offscreen
Offscreen

Offscreen magazine is a chance to read about technology on paper. Now in its 20th Issue, Offscreen is a breath of fresh air.

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28 Jan, 2019 2 min read
Unexpected Entrepreneurs
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Brandon Kelly, Craft CMS – Three Lessons Learnt

Brandon is the founder and CEO of Pixel and Tonic who created the content managing system titled Craft CMS. This system aids web agencies in building websites that their clients are then able to content manage going forwards.

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02 Nov, 2018 2 min read
Unexpected Entrepreneurs
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Radim Malinic, Brand Nu – Three Lessons Learnt

Radim is a Czech-born creative director, designer, speaker and occasional author who runs his business solo, but has resourced a team of freelancers from around the world to help him out.

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15 Oct, 2018 3 min read
Unexpected Entrepreneurs
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Simon Bennett – Snapshooter – Three Lessons Learnt

Snapshooter helps you schedule frequent customizable DigitalOcean backups of your droplets and volumes.

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20 Sep, 2018 1 min read
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