Tech Talks
The Future of Mobile E-Commerce: 7 Emerging Trends & Predictions
Mobile e-commerce (or m-commerce) is quickly become the dominant form of online shopping. Consumers are increasingly using their phones to purchase goods and services, and businesses that weren’t prepared for the mobile revolution are stuck playing catch-up. At Web Factory, it’s our job to help our clients avoid this fate by future proofing every solution […]
October 25, 2023
Tech Talks
How can a mobile app enhance your eCommerce business?
When you run an eCommerce business, it is vital that you give your business every opportunity to grow. There are so many avenues for exploration and growth that it takes time to choose the right path. If you are intent on a digital transformation, you should focus on developing a mobile app. You might assume […]
October 24, 2023
NEWS
Modirum Expands Its Global Footprint with the Acquisition of Web Factory in Skopje, North Macedonia
Modirum, a leading global provider of secure payment solutions, announced today the successful acquisition of Web Factory, a reputable software development company based in Skopje, North Macedonia. The strategic acquisition marks a significant milestone for Modirum Group, further fuelling its growth and establishing a strong presence in one of the most flourishing IT talent markets […]
June 5, 2023
Tech Talks
How to boost your switch to Flutter? Guidelines from an iOS developer
Today, we will share Medium post from our Mobile Tech Lead, Mariana Janevska. I have been interested in Flutter for a while and I can honestly say I am pleasantly surprised with what this framework can do. I now have two successfully finished Flutter applications for both iOS and Android 🥳, one on App Store […]
May 12, 2023
Biz Talks
The Role of Mobile E-commerce in Building Stronger Customer Relationships
As an e-commerce business, interacting with your digital assets and online presence are the only way customers can form a connection with your brand. It’s not like they can walk into your store and say hello. But how do you win them over virtually? That’s the million- (sometimes even billion-) dollar question for ecommerce companies. […]
March 22, 2023
Biz Talks
How can a mobile app enhance your eCommerce business?
When you run an eCommerce business, it is vital that you give your business every opportunity to grow. There are so many avenues for exploration and growth that it takes time to choose the right path. If you are intent on a digital transformation, you should focus on developing a mobile app. You might assume […]
December 21, 2022
Tech Talks
5 Keys to Successful Digital Transformation
Over the past few years, digital transformation has become a mandatory process for every organization that wants to stay competitive, culminating when the Covid-19 pandemic has influenced both companies and users to go digital with their products and jobs. Tech Republic refers to digital transformation as a concept on how to use technology to reshape […]
September 6, 2022
Tech Talks
The Fundamentals of Effective Digital Transformation
Effective digital transformation is still an enigma for many businesses. A surprising number of organizations aren’t aware of the positive outcomes it can bring. In fact, Everest Group discovered that 73% of companies struggled to derive any business value through their digital transformation activities. Digital transformation is the fundamental shift that impacts market operations, economies, […]
August 18, 2022
HR Talks
10 questions for 10th anniversary | Interview with Daniel Sozdanoski
After Goran, Aleksandar, and Sasha, next in line for the interview is Daniel Sozdanoski. Daniel, or as we like to call him Shafro, arrived as an intern in Web Factorу 10 years ago, and now he is one of our core team members as a Head of Tech Operations. He has a lot of things […]
August 10, 2022
HR Talks
10 questions for 10th anniversary | Interview with Aleksandar Jovchevski
After the interviews with Goran Shopovski and Sasha Krstev, next in line is Aleksandar Jovchevski, who also joined us 10 years ago. Aleksandar Jovchevski a.k.a Alex joined the team as an iOS developer after working for a few big companies. Alex, during these past 10 years, has been involved in building our mobile team, our […]
August 3, 2022
HR Talks
10 questions for 10th anniversary | Interview with Sasha Krstev
After the first interview with Goran Shopovski who is Web Factory’s first team member, next in the line is Sasha Krstev, who also joined us 10 years ago and after a few position changes, now he is our Game Tech Lead as part of the Sindex team. Sasha Krstev a.k.a Sashko joined the team while […]
July 20, 2022
HR Talks
10 questions for 10th anniversary | Interview with Goran Shopovski
Goran Shopovski is Web Factory’s first team member. He joined us 10 years ago and during his 10 years tenure at Web Factory, we have faced and achieved so many great things together. Today, he is one of the core members of the company. Looking back then and now, many things have changed in the […]
February 25, 2022
Biz Talks
Web Factory strengthens leadership with Ilija Lalkovski named CEO
Skopje | February 2022 Web Factory has announced the appointment of its new CEO, Mr. Ilija Lalkovski. Appointing a CEO plays a critical role in supporting Web Factory’s ongoing growth and development. Web Factory MK is a software development partner devoted to empowering established companies and start-ups to cut through the clutter and stand […]
February 3, 2022
Biz Talks
How to Optimize your Metaverse Experience with Offshore Development
What is the 2021 Metaverse experience? Metaverse became a hot topic when Facebook changed its name to Meta. Metaverse sounds like new technology, but its (over)simplified meaning is “virtual space.” At the moment, the meaning is described in WiKi as “The original meaning of Metaverse is a virtual three-dimensional space built on the Internet”, but […]
December 3, 2021
Biz Talks
4 Main Benefits of Hiring a Remote Tech Partner
Although the IT industry is skyrocketing, finding serious tech experts has never been more difficult, especially if the search is limited to a certain geographical area. A PwC report claims that 39% of CEOs describe attracting digital talents as “somewhat difficult“. A question arises—should you build an in-house team or hire a remote tech partner? […]
October 29, 2021
Biz Talks
Efficient development of matching services
The domestic market size of matching services is expected to grow by 23% year-on-year in 2021 and 200% in 2026, five years later (Source: Cyber Agent Matching Service Market Size Forecast 2021 ). In addition, the size of the sharing economy market, including matching services, is projected to grow rapidly to 2.1 trillion yen in 2020 […]
October 27, 2021
Biz Talks
Is offshore development already the mainstream development method? Points of interest other than cost
It’s been a long time since I heard about a shortage of engineers due to the growing demand for software engineers in Japan, but what about the actual situation? In this article, I will tell you about the position of offshore development in the Japanese IT industry based on the current situation. Increasing demand for […]
October 21, 2021
Biz Talks
Healthcare App Development—A Practical Guide
A practical guide for developing a Healthcare App As technology in healthcare progresses, it’s disrupting the entire industry. Healthcare technology trends have led to a decline in readmission rates for hospitals and visits to emergency rooms. The complicated billing processes, the long waiting time, and healthcare workers in desperate need of rest have opened up […]
September 29, 2021
Tech Talks
How to Build a Scalable App — The Ultimate Guide
One of the most critical factors for the performance of a web application is scalability. The overall power of any system, operation, or infrastructure to manage the increasing volume of work can be described as scalability. Scalability is also a mechanism that enables a system to manage the increasing ability to expand and facilitate its […]
September 17, 2021
Biz Talks
Why do software projects fail and how to prevent it?
Why do software projects fail and how to prevent it? When you’re looking to grow, it’s very important to focus on detecting growth opportunities and work on business development. However, you can’t do this if you’re constantly solving development and software projects’ issues and you’re simply all over the place. Even with many factors contributing […]
August 18, 2021
NEWS
Web Factory MK ranked as Top iPhone App Development Company
Web Factory MK is pleased to share that they have been featured in DesignRush as one of the top iOS app development companies in 2021. DesignRush is a B2B marketplace that connects brands with professional full-service agencies, web design companies, digital marketing firms, and top technology companies. Their platform lists over 9,300 agencies from over […]
August 4, 2021
Biz Talks
A practical guide to developing a Fintech application
Fintech is going big. The investments in this sector reached $55.3 billion in 2019. Moreover, the fintech market is expected to mark an astonishing CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) of 25% to 30% during the period between 2019 and 2025. Financial institutions are widely adopting Fintech applications, while the number of Fintech startups is also growing. This […]
January 27, 2021
Tech Talks
An approach to supporting multiple locales in an Angular 8 Universal SPA using cookies and the Express engine
As most people are already aware, a normal Angular application executes in the browser , rendering pages in the DOM in response to user actions. The application code is transpiled into JavaScript, so when we open the website, we are mostly waiting for all of those scripts to download so we can start the execution of […]
January 25, 2021
NEWS
Web Factory partners with Akoni Hub London
Over the past 11 years, our established software development [complex end-to-end solutions provider] model is successfully improving our clients’ efficiency and effectiveness, and we’re playing a crucial role for businesses across the world as an embedded engineering team & tech solution partner. Today, we are proud and delighted to announce that our hard work over […]
November 26, 2020
Tech Talks
An approach to dynamic theme color generation in Angular
Designing and theming is one of the most important parts of the Web Development process. In theory, a web application is always created to solve a specific set of problems for the end-users, and as long as the application fulfills its primary goal, it will always attract the users which require that solution. A good […]
November 25, 2020
Biz Talks
How to Build Customer Loyalty in Digital Banking | Payments | Cashback Applications
Fintech spend is rapidly growing. Small banks and fintech startups have recognized the moment for digitization and decided to seize it. According to Business Insider, 79% of banks’ IT spend is focused on digital customer experience. As 71% of millennials find having a banking app “very important”, digital banking apps are obviously the future of banks. Fintech […]
November 23, 2020
Tech Talks
Building a query language in Ruby on Rails
URL parameters are the easiest way to support filtering in a rails app. If you have a /offersendpoint which returns all offers you might be interested in, then you could filter it by any property by adding query parameters, like for example /offers?category=tech&status=active&relevance=popular and so forth. Parsing these parameters from inside a Rails controller and […]
September 29, 2020
Tech Talks
How to track your API calls status progress using rxjs and ngx-ready-set-go lib for Angular
Spinner: failed to spin, spinning and done I am working on a project at the moment where we needed to develop an admin panel from scratch in Angular 9 (soon after we updated it to Angular 10). Because there are a lot of CRUD operations like views, lists, items, new, edit, bla bla bla… you […]
August 29, 2020
Tech Talks
Private variables (fields), private methods, private accessors. Javascript finally gave “some privacy” to classes
Private fields are supported by Google Chrome v74+ and NodeJs 12+ Private methods and accessors are supported by Google Chrome v84+ Day by day, we are all witnessing the rapid progress of Javascript. There are still some mind blowing things that your non-javascript colleagues will joke about, but days without having private fields in classes are far […]
July 23, 2020
Tech Talks
Getting started with programmatic animations using the Angular Animations API
The @angular/animations package is a powerful tool that you can utilize to your advantage in creating great experiences for your users. A simple animation like fade in or fade out may prove to be super effective in upgrading your applications. Adding simple animations like this does not take longer than 10 minutes of development time, but it […]
May 29, 2020
Biz Talks
Cash flow is the safeguard of a business
We can all agree that cash is the king, for sure. But, can we say that the cash flow is the safeguard of a business?! The cash is only one side of the coin. On the flip side having positive cash flow and enough cash on hand for dealing with unexpected expenses and inevitable investments […]
May 4, 2020
HR Talks
How WE Work From Home During Lockdown
There is no doubt that the pandemic has a huge impact on world events. Our dear friends from It.mk recently had a text on how the world’s IT companies deal with the pandemic and what challenges it brings. As expected, most of the readers were more interested in how local companies deal with the epidemic. Therefore, in a series […]
April 27, 2020
Success Stories
Our Software Development Story In Japan 🇯🇵
“To be honest, I’d never change them with any other software development team! They are professionals for high-quality development and I feel them as my very reliable team, my important partner.” 🤗 Ignis is how everything started for us in Japan🇯🇵. We started working together in 2014 and since then, we are developing outstanding digital […]
February 27, 2020
HR Talks
Every company wants to do great things, make better decisions, please clients and perform at the
Every company wants to do great things, make better decisions, please clients and perform at the highest possible level. When we started Web Factory 10 years ago, we knew that the biggest driver of performance is our team culture. Freedom at Work is our productivity hack! We have created a culture based on core values […]
November 19, 2019
Tech Talks
A Fintech startup that is democratizing the financial services for SME’s in the UK
Our client, AkoniHub, acquired by Stubben Edge, from London is selected among 12 winning Fintechs to advance the future of SME banking in the UK. Akoni, acquired by Stubben Edge, is an innovative company that helps SME’s to maximize their interest earned and manage risk without the hassle of researching rates, setting up then monitoring […]
February 21, 2019
Biz Talks
The future of work
Do you fear the rise of exponential technology and its potential to take over all our jobs? Do you worry that no matter how good you are and how experienced, a computer will eventually do your job better than you? I hate to say this, but you’re probably right. But once we acknowledge this, we […]
December 29, 2018
Tech Talks
Code assessment checklist
Let’s say you’ve written a piece of code with all the clean code principles and all the cool patterns in mind. You run the code, it works. Now, would you go through a reverse process and rate the quality of your work, find design flaws, potential bugs, and breaking points? Photo by Tyler Milligan on Unsplash When writing […]
November 23, 2018
Biz Talks
Tokyo events for IT, Marketing, Design and Business
New in Tokyo!? You’re probably asking yourself: “Where do I start? What should I visit? Who can I ask?”. I’ve been there and I asked around. I got help from many and I will try to do the same with this post. In these past 4–5 years I am frequently traveling to Tokyo. Tokyo is […]
November 18, 2018
Biz Talks
Coming short on estimations? Might have something to do with your risk strategy.
Any project, no matter the industry, should be aware of the risks and their impediments when they occur. Whether a manager, a cook, a developer, or a mechanic, you face risks every day, you just might not comprehend them as such or just see them as a regular thing happening. Working in outsource, where expectations […]
August 21, 2018