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Owen Hughes

Bio

Owen Hughes is a London-based reporter at ZDNet and TechRepublic.

Disclosure

Owen Hughes has nothing to disclose. He does not hold investments in the technology companies he covers.

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Owen Hughes

Looking for citizen developers? Here’s how to spot them in your team

These old programming languages are still critical to big companies. But nobody wants to learn them

These are the tech jobs with the fastest rising salaries–and the skills employers want most

Developers are exhausted. Now, managers are worried they will quit

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Fed up with remote work, tech workers are looking for new jobs

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