Month: June 2021

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Authors Guide 101: How Books Are Publish

 

Authors Guide 101: How Books Are Publish

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Many dreamers and writers with excellent writing skills wish to write a book at least once in their life. While some like to keep their manuscripts private, many like us crave to get them published. 

Writing a book for the first time is itself exacting and challenging, and getting it in front of readers and figuring out how to get it published is another real deal the first-timers face. 

How Books Are Publish

If you are also the one who has always dreamt of publishing a book, this little guide is for you to have a basic idea of what goes behind the publishing process. The better you know the publishing process and how it works, the more you can make your wish come true.

1.   Select Your Publishing Route

Before you proceed with publishing, first analyze if you want to go with self-publish or traditional publishing. Taking this note will guide you towards the right path, and you can identify which publishing method is suitable for you.

2.   Choose A Suitable Title

Nail down an unforgettable title for your book. The more impressive your title is, the better will be the sale. Settle for the one that matches your manuscript, and don’t make it complicated.

The title you choose to name your book should be clear to your audience and should offer value to the ones reading your book. 

Some of the question to keep in mind while choosing your topics are:

·       Is your title short enough to read from a thumbnail image?

·       Does it fascinate you?

·       Can your title have an impact on one’s life?

·       Is it capable enough to extract an emotional response?

Keeping the title short is always in the fashion and best sellers today only have one or two-word title because it is easy for the readers to acquire and understand. 

3.   Design A Cover That Converts

A well-designed cover is essential to get your book to convert into sales. This visual representation provides the first impression to your audience. If gone wrong, it will stay wrong because the first impression is always the last one. 

Your cover page should be eye-catching, attractive and appeal to your audience. It should be correct according to your prose genre and let your audience know that this is the book they need to read next. 

To make a cover look appealing, go for the minimalist design; exaggerated ones will confuse your audience, and they might lose interest in the first place.

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Make sure your cover is tailored according to your target audience. If the book is for an influential reader, it should not be gloomy or dreary because that makes no sense, and you’ll want to bring lights to it.

4.   Get Feedback From Others

Third-party feedback can be of great benefit to you. As soon as you are done with your book, go to trusted critics, see what they think, ask them to evaluate your manuscript and provide accurate feedback.  

You can also help them provide honest feedback. How? You can distribute anonymous forms among your critics or appraisers and ask relevant questions on different elements such as protagonist and antagonist, storyline, prose, etc. 

You can also use rating forms, as I did to write my essay for me; they are comparatively much easier to evaluate. But while taking the feedback, make sure you go to the qualified ones and also ask them to propose the solution, not just point it. 

5.   Pitch A Good Book Editor 

Hiring a good editor can become a life-changer for you. Don’t rush in this stage and take as much time as you want and find a great editor for your book.  

Make sure the editor you choose is a good fit for your niche and interested in the subject matter so they can proofread and edit your book in less than a month and include back-and-forth revisions wherever needed.

A good editor can either make you a best-selling author or an ordinary one. Therefore, be wise in choosing the right editor for your book and make sure his edits are accurate and make sense to you. 

Look in your circle if you can find a qualified one. If you cannot, that’s not a big deal either. Hanging on your budget, you can hire a cheap assignment writing service or a professional book editor or a budget-friendly editor from any freelancing platform like Fiverr, Upwork or Aquent, etc. Before settling for the one, don’t forget to check references and portfolios of their work.

6.   Create A Kindle Direct Publishing Account 

When you feel that your book is ready to hit the market and plan to self-publish it, you can start your publishing process by signing up for a KDP account. 

To upload your book on a kindle publishing account:

1.     Locate and click on “your bookshelf.”

2.     Next, click on “kindle e-book actions.”

3.     Third step involves clicking on “edit eBook content.”

4.     And then, click on “upload eBook manuscript”.

5.     Now, upload your book from the computer.

Amazon lets you select numbers of keywords so your book can easily reach your intended audience. You can also check other best-selling books from your niche and look at what keywords their author have chosen. 

Once amazon completes uploading your file, you will be sent a confirmation message to preview the uploaded file and look for the errors. After uploading your book, create your amazon author central account, add your link, bio, photographs, etc. and few steps after this, you’ll be ready to publish your book and don’t forget to click “save and publish” in the book editing screen.

Conclusion

if you are an apprentice and planning to publish a book, Amazon is the right platform for you. But after you publish your book, don’t forget to market it to the fullest. You can leverage blog posts and connect with other authors ready to cross-promote or employ third-party services that cater to your book’s intended audience. 

Author bio

Stella Lincoln is an Assistant Editor at Assignment Assistance, a perfect place for higher education students to get their essay help at reasonable rates. She is a travel buff and loves to stroll around the city during her free times.

YOGA: FOR A HEALTHY BODY AND A CALM MIND

On this day seven years ago, the United Nations on 11th December 2014 announced 21st June as the international yoga day. The aim behind it was to “globally raise awareness regarding the benefits of practicing yoga”.

All About Yoga: Poses, Types, Benefits, and More | Everyday Health


Yoga, in the words of late practitioner B.K.S Iyengar is a way of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions.

Since the onset of the pandemic followed by a nationwide lockdown, the amount of physical activity performed by an individual has declined at an alarming rate. The gyms shut down while the permission to leave the house only for essentials has made the human body quite lethargic and stiff. But yoga is one of the few ways where an individual can maintain their physical and mental health without the need of stepping out of the house.

So, on this yoga day, let’s talk about a couple of asanas that help one with weight loss.

Using yoga for weight loss is a pretty debatable topic. Many believe it alone can’t promote weight loss unless it’s combined with a healthy diet. By combining yoga with a healthy diet not only does it helps in losing weight but also keeps the mind and the body healthy. 

One of the reasons for weight gain is neither binge eating nor lack of physical activities but stress. Stress can have a disastrous effect on one’s mind and body. It often reveals itself in the form of insomnia, anxiety, lack of concentration and pain. Combining yoga with stress management techniques; not only helps in weight loss but also helps in maintaining good physical and mental health.

Talking about the asanas, they don’t immediately produce a result as the poses are simple but, they focus more on increasing body flexibility, improving concentration, and building one’s muscle tone. Once the body gets used to it, only then it starts to show the results. The asanas used for weight loss are as follows.

1. Chaturangadandasana (the plank pose)

How to Do Low Plank (Chaturanga Dandasana)

Chaturangadandasana or the plank pose mainly to strengthens the core muscles. The benefits of this asana are contradictory to the way it’s performed. To perform this, you have to hug your elbows to your side while making sure your upper arms are parallel to the floor. 

2. Virabhadrasana (the warrior pose)

Warrior Pose (Veerabhadrasana or Virabhadrasana) | The Art of Living

Virabhadrasana or the warrior pose helps in toning the thighs and shoulders while increasing one’s concentration. It also improves the balance of the body and tones the back end, arms and legs. While contracting abdominal muscles while holding the pose helps in attaining a flat belly. It works more effectively the longer one can hold this pose. 

3. Trikonasana (the triangle pose)

Triangle Pose (Trikonasana) | Yoga Garden San Francisco Bay Area

Trikonasana or the triangle pose helps in improving digestion and reducing fat accumulation in the belly and waist. This pose improves the blood circulation in the entire body and, its unique lateral motion helps to burn belly and waist fat while strengthening the thigh muscles and the hamstrings. 

4. Adho Mukha Svanasana (the downward dog pose)

How to Do Downward Facing Dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana)

Adho Mukha Svanasana or the downward dog pose benefits the body by toning it and strengthening the arms, thighs, back and hamstring. It also improves blood circulation, and the concentration when one holds the pose concentrates solely on breathing.

5. Sarvangasana (the shoulder stand)

How to do Sarvangasana | Shoulder Stand Step | Benefits Sarvangasana


Sarvangasana or the shoulder stand pose has multiple benefits. It increases strength, and improves digestion of the body and is also known for boosting the metabolism and balancing the thyroid levels. It also strengthens the upper body, legs and abdominal muscles while improving one’s sleeping pattern and respiratory system.

6. Sethu Bandha Sarvangasana (the bridge pose)

How to Do Supported Bridge (Setu Bandha Sarvangasana)


Sethu Bandha Sarvangasana or the bridge pose is excellent for weight loss, glutes and maintaining thyroid levels. This pose helps in toning and strengthen the back muscles, improve digestion and thyroid levels while regulating the hormones and reducing back pain.

7. Dhanurasana (the bow pose)

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Dhanurasana or the bow pose massages the abdominal muscles while strengthening the thighs, chest, and back muscles. This pose stretches the entire body while improving blood circulation.

Yoga, which originated in India, is a revival method for body and mind. It is a traditional form used by people of all age groups who yearn for a healthy body and mind. It benefits every single part of the body and also helps in relaxing the mind. This age-old tradition has been accepted and praised worldwide for its effectiveness and has helped maintain a healthy body and a relaxed mind.

DRAUPADI : BOOK REVIEW

MAHASHWETA DEVI

Set in the late 1960s and early 1970s, against the backdrop of the dense forests of Jharkhand and Bengal where a large tribal population is present, the story is an account of the harrowing experiences of Dopdi Mejhen, while she was in police custody for inciting a tribal uprising and murdering an upper class landowner. The undercurrent of the story is dark and chilling and harks back to the time of the Naxalite uprising in 1967.

In the story, the protagonist, Dopdi Mejhen is a young woman of 27 years. She is a political extremist and outlaw. A bounty of One Hundred Rupees is placed on her head. The story is set against the Naxalite movement in
Bengal during 1967. Dopdi Mejhen belongs to the Santhal tribe. She is Robin Hood like figure to
the landless peasants of Bhakuli. She, her husband Dulna Majhi, along with
their comrades are responsible for the killing of wealthy landlord Surja Sahu
and his son, which explains the bounty placed on her head. The tension
between the peasants and upper caste men exists because of the drought
in the area. The peasants attacked and killed the landlord one night, who
had occupied all the wells and tube wells which were the only source of
water for the village. This incident brought upon the fury of the government
which launched Operation Forest in order to capture the escaped couple,
Dopdi and Dhulna, who are believed to be hiding in the Jharkhani forests,
which explains the deployment of the antagonist of the story, Senanayak,
an elderly Bengali specialist in combat and extreme left politics as explained
by the author.

Senanayak is adamant to capture Dropdi, in which he succeeds in the end. Senanayak’s hunt for Draupadi and other tribal extremist revolutionaries has already instilled in the latter an experienced knowledge that if they are caught, they will be countered – which is not the official police encounter but rather the undocumented state sponsored killings. As she is apprehended, Senanayak feels both triumphant and despondent at the same time. This despondency is due to the fact that Dropdi chose to stake herself for her community, ululating with the force of her entire being right before she is taken into custody alerting her fellow comrades to escape, therefore outmanoeuvring the attempt of Senanayak to quell the Naxal
insurgency. Senanayak instructs the army officers to ‘do the needful’ by raping her in order to extract the information about rebel uprising. The men easily succeed in stripping Dopdi in the narrative, which is the culmination of her political punishment by the representatives of the law.

Ironically, the same officers who violated her body, insist that she covers up
once she is ‘done with’ before they can take her to Senanayak. She walks
out, naked, bruised and wounded, refusing to hide the evidence of brutality
and unwilling to be shamed. This disturbs the officers and Senanayak, who
are unsure of what to do with this woman, who forces them to confront their
own depravity. She remains publicly naked at her own insistence rather than
saving her modesty, insisting that this is the place where the male
dominance stops. She confronts Senanayak, laughing. Her laughter, bursting
forth from her bloodied lips, continues to be unintelligible to the officers,
especially Senanayak. Her laughter and her blood challenge the Senanayak
and show that she refuses to be shamed into submission. Senanayak finds
himself bereft of language, too scared to speak at the end – ‘and for the first
time Senanayak is afraid to stand before an unarmed target, terribly afraid’.
Senanayak is completely defeated as she rejects the system of male
dominance that was supposed to undermine her. Her sexually mutilated
body is a weapon of naked protest. The body raped and tortured is used as
a weapon in the end. Dropdi refuses to be emotionally wounded even
though she is physically wounded. She recognises that a woman’s body is
an asset through which they can resist the socio-political objectification of
their bodies and overcome oppression.

There is a clear resemblance between the Draupadi described in the
ancient Hindu epic, the Mahabharata and the Dopdi described in
Mahashweta Devi’s short story. They almost share the same destiny. The
Draupadi in the Mahabharata suffers terribly as she is a queen condemned
to a life of living incognito and is disrobed in the presence of the entire
court. Her dignity and prestige was compromised. Yet she was the one who
fought to win her respect back and prayed to Lord Krishna to protect her. As
mentioned in the scriptures, Lord Krishna blessed Draupadi with a saree that
was so long that its end could not be found. However, in the short story,
Dopdi is on her own and nobody comes to her rescue or to clothe her. She
fights her oppressors while being fully naked and her nudity becomes her
strength as it forces her rapists to come face-to-face with the heinous crime
they had committed. Just like the Draupadi of Mahabharata refused to tie
her hair till she bathed in the blood of Duryodhana, the Dopdi of Devi’s story
refuses to wear her clothes till her rapists realise the implications of their
actions. Devi presents a strong woman who, despite facing marginalisation
and exploitation, transgresses conventional sexual and societal standards.
Dopdi subverts the physicality of her body from powerlessness to powerful
resistance.

Income Inequality in India

Income inequality refers to the unevenness in the distribution of income throughout the population. In India, income inequality has emerged as one of the major economic problem and is increasing. According to World Inequality Report 2018, inequality in India has increased substantially from the 1980s onwards. The top 0.1 per cent earners have captured more growth than bottom 50 per cent all combined.
There are several reasons for this inequality. Firstly there is an extreme concentration of wealth and economic power in the hands of large industrialists. They have acquired massive assets over time. This can be due to easy availability of money in form of loans from banks. Secondly, inequalities have existed for a very long time, since the time of colonialization. The zamindari system was responsible for inequalities in land ownership which resulted in concentration of tangible wealth. Even though zamindari system was abolished, the damage had been done. The concentration of land ownership could not be broken. Even today, the main reason for income inequalities in rural areas is the concentration of ownership of lands.

Another reason for income inequality is the rising capital intensity of technology. Over the years, due to digital tsunami and consecutive rise of IT sectors, the demand for labour have significantly reduced over the demand for capital. Reduction in wages and unemployment has increased. More skilled workers have a higher demand and wage in comparison to low skilled workers. This has contributed towards increasing gap in income levels. Furthermore, there exists urban bias in private investments. Mostly rural people are the ones who are not very advanced with the technology. Majority of population in India belongs to rural sector and therefore a pattern of urban bias is observed in private investments. It can be seen as the use of highly mechanised projects. Here the share of wages added is relatively low. This naturally leads to inequality in income distribution and wealth accumulations.
Inflation has also greatly contributed in rising income inequality. It has affected the real incomes of working class while benefited traders, farmers, industrialists. Not much has been done to prevent this effect of inflation and hence the result is income inequality. Even the credit facilities are responsible for income inequalities. Large business frims or individuals have an easy access to loans and financial supply on favourable and supporting terms. They have an access to formal capital market but the vast majority of small marginal farmers, labours etc. do not have this. They depend largely on moneylenders who exploit them by charging high interest rates.
The government has desperately tried to curb these inequalities by taking various measures. Various land reforms and redistribution of agricultural land has taken place and the government has even tried to control monopolies and restrictive trade practices. Several employment and wage policies and social security measures have been undertaken and special programmes for the upliftment of rural population have been taken up. Even then, income inequality exists. All of these measures have little impact on poverty and thus inequality continues to grow.

The Palestine Conflict: Catastrophic Demise of Human Lives

In 2021 we are witnessing the disruption in the lives of Palestinians in Israel. However, the history of the Palestine and Israel conflict is of around 100 years old.

Though both Jews and Arab Muslims date their claims to the land back a couple of thousand years. The current political conflict began in the early 20th century.

How Did It All Began? | Palestine Conflict

British took the authority and control over the area known as Palestinian after they defeated the ottoman empire in WW1.

The land of then inhabited by a Jewish minority and Arab majority. Jews fleeing persecution in Europe wanted to establish a national homeland in Palestine. 

After the holocaust of World War 2, a number of Jew refugees fleeing from execution, seeking a homeland increased. The tension between the communities aggravated when the Jews started occupying more space and started enforcing their dominance. Palestinian Arabs opposed the move and claimed their land. This resulted in unrest amongst both communities.

An early United Nations plan to give each group a part of the land failed in 1947. 

 In 1948, when unable to solve the problem, British rulers left, and thus Jewish leaders declared the creation of the state of Israel. The only country in the present-day world with no defined borders. Israel is keen to occupy more land, including parts of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. All in the culmination to declare itself “Greater Israel”. Israel already occupies the Golan Heights in Syria, Parts of Jordan, and Egypt. 

Tensions are often high between Israel and Palestinians living in East Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank.

Why The Palestine Conflict Is In News Again?

The recent escalation of violence in Jerusalem arises when the Israeli security forces started harassing the Palestinians near Al Aqsa mosque.

This led to the postponing of the hearing in a long-standing ownership case that could result in the eviction of Palestinians from East Jerusalem. The eruption of violence started because of this dispute of land ownership case. 

The Timeline(2021) | Palestine Conflict

Tensions between Israel Police and Palestinians began on 12 April when police put up restrictions preventing people from sitting in the Damascus Gate plaza — the most popular public area during the month of Ramzan. Later on 16 April, the first Friday of Ramzan, Israel imposed a 10,000-person limit on prayers at Al-Aqsa mosque, turning away tens of thousands of Palestinians.

From 15 April to 24 April,  this unrest between people in Jerusalem continued. More than 100 Palestinians were wounded, many died. Police used tear gas, stun grenades, arrested more than 50 Palestinians.

Then from Gaza 36 rockets were fired into Israel but there were no casualties. Israel then countered with airstrikes in Gaza on 25th April.

All these disruptions resulted in the delay of the hearing that was going to take place on May 6. Which would decide whether the Palestinians have to vacate their home to Israeli settlers or not. Then the police riding on horses entered the Sheikh Jarrah Neighbourhood and mercilessly attacked the unarmed protestors using tear gas, stun grenades, skunk water, and rubber bullets.

On May, 7th and 8th Palestinians protested in Al Aqsa, where police barricaded the compound and violently disperse the crowd. Hitting them with rubber guns in their head. being the 27th night of Ramadan, the holiest night of the month, thousand more gathered for prayers at Al-Aqsa. Their Israeli police squared up the worshipper leaving around 100 of them injured.

May 10th, which is celebrated as Jerusalem day. In the early hours of the day, Israeli police launched the second surprise attack on worshipers. they fired rubber bullets, tear gas, and stun grenades into this ancient mosque leaving more than 400 injured. During the raid, the police seized the authority of the mosque from Muslim custody. They littered the floor with shattered glass and grenades.

Hamas a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist but the pragmatic, militant, and nationalist organization fired rockets into Israel in retaliation, on May 11th. The Israeli air force answered back with full-scale airstrikes.

Another heartbreaking tale of authorities dominating and harassing the lives of human beings over a piece of land. 

In the legal dispute, a key trigger for the recent unrest, Jewish settlers have been trying to evict Palestinians from their homes. When the state makes its people insecure for their basic resources like land and freedom, it is the citizen’s right to protest and retaliate against the authorities. 

Not providing people with their rights they deserve but giving them suffering, is a habit common in authorities in the world.

As of now, 43 Palestinians are killed including 13 children (numbers are tentative) in this ongoing violence in Palestine.

Israel a state which illegally captured so much land that made Palestine disappear from the map is currently making Palestinians disappear from the world.

Mare of Easttown :Kate Winslet on fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm7RmpzCeyk

It was a character study, of how a woman ground down by life after the loss of a son to drugs and suicide, the consequent divorce from her husband and raising of her grandson in the face of a custody battle with his mother (her son’s former girlfriend, rehabbed but fragile) endures.

SERVANT- HORROR AND THRILLER AT IT’S BEST

There’s much to admire in “Servant” — for instance, the show’s painterly compositions, if at times underlit, isolate Free’s character in the far background, as if to say that her soft-spoken, perhaps malignant caretaker character has the ability to literally blend into the background. Ambrose, a welcome presence underseen on big-ticket television since the “Six Feet Under” finale in 2005, makes big and risky choices in constructing her character. She combines brittleness with a bitter sense of humor such that our understanding of Dorothy evolves over the series’s run. As we learn more about her and Sean’s marriage (one in which he, a chef, is often physically absent and yet more frequently disengaged), we shift, eventually, from seeing her as the source of tension to someone bearing its brunt.

And yet for all this, and for all that “Servant” is the most watchable show yet in Apple’s vexed rollout, the series’ somewhat loopy pacing is punishing. Leanne seems as the show runs on to represent far less than meets the eye; episode after episode unfolds without her doing much of anything but seeming threatening in her inaction. (We know she’s going to have to do something eventually, but the wait grows less tantalizing than stultifying.) And to get to a new understanding of Dorothy, one has to trudge fairly deep into the series’s run, long after some viewers may have written her off. And Sean’s willingness to keep her in the dark comes to read less as benevolence than a somewhat uninteresting, uncomplicated sort of villainy. Their behavior raises the question of whether these two can have credibly loved one another in the first place — a twist this story can’t bear. If they are content to torment each other and themselves unremittingly — if, in other words, they truly do not care about each other — then why should we? “Servant” is fascinating to look at and, at first, contemplate. But its slithering, reversing structure elides the fact that it must move the plot forward only infinitesimally each episode in order to conserve it, and that this is a shortish feature in the costume of a ten-episode drama. That’s its biggest, and least welcome, twist of all.

resident Alien: The hidden gem of a series

Resident Alien: The hidden gem of a series

Based on the Dark Horse comic, Resident Alien follows Harry, an alien that crash lands on Earth and passes himself off as a small-town human doctor. Arriving with a secret mission to kill all humans, Harry starts off living a simple life… but things get a bit rocky when he’s roped into solving a local murder and realizes he needs to assimilate into his new world. As he does so, he begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his mission and asking the big life questions like: “Are human beings worth saving?” and “Why do they fold their pizza before eating it?”

Genre:Drama

Network: SYFY

Premiere Date:Jan 27, 2021

Skin problems!

So before I write this article I want to say that doesn’t matter how you look how we look the most precious and beauteous thing in this world is the inner beauty!

Skin disorders vary greatly in symptoms and severity. They can be temporary or permanent, and may be painless or painful. Some have situational causes, while others may be genetic. Some skin conditions are minor, and others can be life-threatening.

While most skin disorders are minor, others can indicate a more serious issue. Contact your doctor if you think you might have one of these common skin problems

There are many different types of skin disorders. Here is a list of 25 with pictures

1.eczema.
2.psoriasis.
3.acne.
4.rosacea.
5.ichthyosis.
6.vitiligo.
7.hives.
8.seborrheic dermatitis.

And so on but all of these skin diseases can be cured. Don’t take a lot of time just sitting at the home and thinking about these diseases go to a dermatologist and make sure you have a Open conversation with him/her. You’ll definitely get the better results after that treatment.

And guys if you’re bullying someone due to these diseases then please this article is not for you! You need to be honest with yourselves that am I giving my best to everyone.

Linked in -history

Founding to 2010 Edit
The company was founded in December 2002 by Reid Hoffman and founding team members from PayPal and Socialnet.com (Allen Blue, Eric Ly, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Lee Hower, Konstantin Guericke, Stephen Beitzel, David Eves, Ian McNish, Yan Pujante, Chris Saccheri).[18] In late 2003, Sequoia Capital led the Series A investment in the company.[citation needed] In August 2004, LinkedIn reached 1 million users.[19] In March 2006, LinkedIn achieved its first month of profitability.[19] In April 2007, LinkedIn reached 10 million users.[19] In February 2008, LinkedIn launched a mobile version of the site.[20]

In June 2008, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, and other venture capital firms purchased a 5% stake in the company for $53 million, giving the company a post-money valuation of approximately $1 billion.[21] In November 2009, LinkedIn opened its office in Mumbai[22] and soon thereafter in Sydney, as it started its Asia-Pacific team expansion. In 2010, LinkedIn opened an International Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland,[23] received a $20 million investment from Tiger Global Management LLC at a valuation of approximately $2 billion,[24] announced its first acquisition, Mspoke,[25] and improved its 1% premium subscription ratio.[26] In October of that year, Silicon Valley Insider ranked the company No. 10 on its Top 100 List of most valuable startups.[27] By December, the company was valued at $1.575 billion in private markets.[28]

2011 to present Edit

LinkedIn office building at 222 Second Street in San Francisco (opened in March 2016)

LinkedIn office in Toronto
LinkedIn filed for an initial public offering in January 2011. The company traded its first shares on May 19, 2011, under the NYSE symbol “LNKD”, at $45 per share. Shares of LinkedIn rose as much as 171% on their first day of trade on the New York Stock Exchange and closed at $94.25, more than 109% above IPO price. Shortly after the IPO, the site’s underlying infrastructure was revised to allow accelerated revision-release cycles.[8] In 2011, LinkedIn earned $154.6 million in advertising revenue alone, surpassing Twitter, which earned $139.5 million.[29] LinkedIn’s fourth-quarter 2011 earnings soared because of the company’s increase in success in the social media world.[30] By this point, LinkedIn had about 2,100 full-time employees compared to the 500 that it had in 2010.[31]

In April 2014, LinkedIn announced that it had leased 222 Second Street, a 26-story building under construction in San Francisco’s SoMa district, to accommodate up to 2,500 of its employees,[32] with the lease covering 10 years.[33] The goal was to join all San Francisco-based staff (1,250 as of January 2016) in one building, bringing sales and marketing employees together with the research and development team.[33] They started to move in in March 2016.[33] In February 2016, following an earnings report, LinkedIn’s shares dropped 43.6% within a single day, down to $108.38 per share. LinkedIn lost $10 billion of its market capitalization that day.[34][35]

In 2016, access to LinkedIn was blocked by Russian authorities for non-compliance with the 2015 national legislation that requires social media networks to store citizens’ personal data on servers located in Russia.[36]

On June 13, 2016, Microsoft announced that it would acquire LinkedIn for $196 a share, a total value of $26.2 billion and the largest acquisition made by Microsoft to date. The acquisition would be an all-cash, debt-financed transaction. Microsoft would allow LinkedIn to “retain its distinct brand, culture and independence”, with Weiner to remain as CEO, who would then report to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Analysts believed Microsoft saw the opportunity to integrate LinkedIn with its Office product suite to help better integrate the professional network system with its products. The deal was completed on December 8, 2016.[37]

In late 2016, LinkedIn announced a planned increase of 200 new positions in its Dublin office, which would bring the total employee count to 1,200.[38]

As of 2017, 94% of B2B marketers use LinkedIn to distribute content.[39]

Soon after LinkedIn’s acquisition by Microsoft, on January 19, 2017, LinkedIn’s new desktop version was introduced.[40] The new version was meant to make the user experience seamless across mobile and desktop. Some of the changes were made according to the feedback received from the previously launched mobile app. Features that were not heavily used were removed. For example, the contact tagging and filtering features are not supported anymore.[41]

Following the launch of the new user interface (UI), some users, complained about the missing features which were there in the older version, slowness, and bugs in it. The issues were faced by both free and premium users, and with both the desktop version and the mobile version of the site.

In 2019, LinkedIn launched globally the feature Open for Business that enables freelancers to be discovered on the platform.[42][43] LinkedIn Events was launched in the same year.[44][45]

In June 2020, Jeff Weiner stepped down as CEO and become executive chairman after 11 years in the role. Ryan Roslansky stepped up as CEO from his previous position as the senior vice president of product.[46]

In late July 2020, LinkedIn announced it laid off 960 employees, about 6 percent of total workforce, from the talent acquisition and global sales teams. In an email to all employees, CEO Ryan Roslansky said the cuts were due to effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic.[47]

In April 2021, CyberNews claimed that 500 million LinkedIn’s accounts have leaked online.[48] However, LinkedIn stated that “We have investigated an alleged set of LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale and have determined that it is actually an aggregation of data from a number of websites and companies”.[49][50]

Is Iconic Framework better over Native Apps?

Is Iconic Framework better over Native Apps?

The age old question that has bogged developers, Is Iconic framework better over Native Apps. Nowadays, there are plenty of ways of having a mobile application as a final product. The most popular solution is building it as native, by using the native language of each platform. The alternative is to choose a cross-platform tool. Using native code leads to superior performance, but has the downside of having two teams to handling the product: one for the Android ecosystem and another for iOS. Cross-platform libraries rely on standard web tools like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, providing native experiences by accessing the native features. The hybrid path has the advantage of increasing the speed of mobile development, by having just one project for both platforms and offering UX consistency across channels.

Ionic Framework is an open-source UI toolkit for building mobile and Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) apps using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It provides mobile-optimized web technology-based components as well as native APIs using Capacitor and Ionic Native. It was created in 2013, by the Drifty Co. The original version was released in 2013, built on top of Angularjs and Apache Cordova.In 2019 they launched a version with support for multiple front-ends, including React.js.Today you can build an Hybrid mobile application in Ionic with Angular, React.js, Vuejs, or even with just plain JavaScript.

Now let’s take a look at its advantages:

Pros:

Has a good documentation, since it’s a company specialized in building tools that help companies and developers to make mobile applications.

These tools are well understood by web developers since it uses webview to render the application (letting the developers use day-to-day technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript).

Makes it easy to port the code into a Progressive Web App (PWA), since all the code is built to run in a web browser. Ionic just requires a few extra steps to be able to have one PWA.

Although it has benefits, we can also encounter some challenges in the way, like the ones listed below:

Cons:

Since the organization behind the framework makes a living from it, besides the free-mium features, there are also premium ones that you can only use if you pay an extra cost.

Ionic is built on top of the “web browser”. The application code can’t easily access the native functionalities

With React Native, developers can build mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms using JavaScript, but they can also implement features with native code. It enables cross-platform builds by providing platform-agnostic native components that map into the platforms’ native UI building blocks. It was created in 2015 by Facebook and it is used in many of its products, as for example, the marketplace section of Facebook’s application.

Developers can also build TV applications with React Native. This means that with a few extra steps, it is possible to deliver applications for the Apple TV and Android TV.

Now, lets dive into some benefits of React Native:

Pros

Massive community around the ecosystem. Right now, there are impressive numbers on GitHub repo Facebook/react-native. This means that it’s very likely for developers to find answers to issues or problems they’re facing.

Ability to be integrated into existing native apps, like showed in this presentation. Besides that, it’s also possible to build native modules, making your mobile application’s look and feel as smooth as a native application.

React Native is translated to native code, with the benefit of achieving 60 frames per second. This gives the user the impression of a native app – not slow at all!

It allows developers to deliver applications for Apple TV and Android TV, with only a few extra steps.

Cons:

Since there’s a big private company behind it, new tools are released according to their own needs. However, the community is free to extend the desired features, to achieve what is necessary for both Android and iOS native technologies.

React Native is still beta. Yes, you read it right. Although it was created five years ago, the Facebook team still didn’t have the confidence to bump a “production” release of it. It may sound like: “be aware of the possible risks”.

This often leads to breaking changes in tools and dependencies between versions. But hey, Gmail was almost 5 years in beta and it worked pretty well.

It eventually boils down to the developers’ choice and needs. Since Ionic works with web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) it fits well in a team that has no background in the native world.

With Ionic, you will have the capability to make great mobile applications, accessing native features like GPS, maps, or audio. These features are ready to be deployed into both Play Store and App Store, with the same effort and expertise that will require to build a web site.

React Native is easily addressed by developers with prior iOS or Android development knowledge. The learning curve for a React developer to understand and debug a React Native application is higher than with Ionic. However, React Native stands with the golden triumph of accessing the native functionalities of the mobile devices, allowing your mobile application to deliver a more native look and feel.

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

” MUSIC IS LIFE ITSELF “

Music , when we listen or read  this word we  instantly think about our favourite song .
Music is sound that has been organized by using rhythm and melody .
Music is in art to express our  felling by singing be it sad or happy .
We relate with the songs when we listen .

Music is One of a way to raise our mood, get    happy and excited, when we ou sad or depressed and  make us  calm and relaxed when we are angry and frustrated .
Music  allows us to feel nearly  all emotions that we experience in our lives.  It is an important part of everyone’s lives.

It can be different for different person .For some when they sing they feel relaxed , for some when the listen to music they feel relaxed and for some when they play any instrument they like they feel good no matter how much depressed and tired they are music lift up their mood .

The choice of music can be different for different person in the world. Whether it is on the basis of language or genres.

There many benefits of music :

•  boost memory
•  build task endurance
•  lighten your mood
•  reduce anxiety and depression
•  stave off fatigue
•  improve your response to pain
•  help you work out more effectively.

Music therapy –
Music therapy for various mental health conditions, including depression and  trauma. Music acts as a medium for processing emotions, trauma, and grief but it can also be utilized as a regulating or calming agent for anxiety .

Music is a sound track of our life.

How to save on your purchase at Ali Express?

How to save on your purchase at Ali Express?

Really want those newly launched Air Jordan’s which sells at almost 3 times it’s retail price or that high spec gaming PC which is not at all available or those knee length boots you have always longed, Ali Express makes all of this possible and much more.

So, here are a few tips and tricks to save on your purchase on Ali Express.Prefering the mobile App over desktop site. The mobile app usually has more offers and discounts rather than the desktop version.

Ali Express has a coin feature which you might find similar to flip kart’s super coin feature. With every purchase you earn super coins which you use for further purchases as discounts.

You might be aware of Amazon’s deals of the day Ali Express has a similar feature called flash deals on which you can save on your purchases.

Ali Express also conducts Sales throughout the year. You can always wait for these Sales and plan your retail therapy accordingly.

Shopping during Stock Clearance can also help you to get great deals on products.

Along with that there are numerous third-party coupon and discount apps which gives additional discounts when shopping via their links and sites. Cash Karo is a prime example of this. One can also avail promocodes, coupons and Ali Express offers through it.

Prepare yourself for Retail Therapy and Happy Shopping.