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Cash won't cut it: Time to get creative in attracting skilled workers
Comment As career analyst and author Dan Pink pointed out at July's TED Global conference in Oxford, economists as far afield as MIT and the London School of Economics have shown increased financial rewards actually make people... [13 Oct 2009]
Facebook adds Nielsen to friends for ads
News Earlier this year, Sandberg keynoted the AdAge Digital conference to pitch Facebook's "active network" of friend connections as a powerful advertising tool, and two years ago Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg... [22 Sep 2009]
MySpace confirms purchase of Facebook-friend iLike
News MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta has confirmed in a conference call on Wednesday that the News Corp-owned social network has "entered into an agreement to acquire iLike".iLike's co-founders will remain at the company and stay... [20 Aug 2009]
Microsoft, Nokia: 'We're going after BlackBerry with mobile Office deal'
News This is really about creating a formidable challenge for RIM rather than anyone else," Nokia executive vice president Kai Oistamo said in a conference call Wednesday. There are no such plans," Nokia's Oistamo said on the... [13 Aug 2009]
Microsoft, Yahoo! integration demons: Just one challenge in search deal
News CEO Steve Ballmer noted on the conference call earlier Wednesday that the two sides have a 100-page playbook as opposed to a two-page term sheet and also noted that the negotiations were handled by management as opposed... [30 Jul 2009]
Amazon goes online shopping with Zappos buy
News Hsieh has become a regular speaker on the tech and marketing conference circuit because of his offbeat way of running a company: encouraging employees to Twitter, offering prospective hires $2,000 to turn a Zappos job... [23 Jul 2009]
Chrome OS pushes Google CEO to rethink seat at Apple's table
News But before his appearance at the Sun Valley media conference on Thursday, he had not responded to direct inquires about whether he'll now have to do something similar when Mac OS X development is discussed at Apple. [13 Jul 2009]
Whitehall IT to pack its bags for pastures new?
News It would have to be judged on its individual merits," he told silicon.com at the recent GovNet Modernising Justice Through IT conference. The comments come ahead of a report into how much public sector work should be... [24 Jun 2009]
Yahoo!: "We are a damned big, important site"
News Bartz told the audience at the All Things Digital conference last week that any deal for its search assets would require a partner with a "boatload" of money and the right technology. doesn't have to do anything with... [04 Jun 2009]
"We had a lot of people running around but nobody doing anything!"
News s going to do to really become a big strong growing international company," Bartz said during a conference call to discuss the company's lacklustre first-quarter results. Instead of an across-the-board... [22 Apr 2009]
Operator Assisted
White Paper From large-scale investor relations calls to small board-of-directors meetings, and everything in between, count on InterCall to work step-by-step, providing the help needed before, during and after the... [07 Mar 2009]
Netbooks and recession-busting tech headline at CeBit
News CeBit has drawn a number of high-profile managers from the international IT sector to attend its conference panels, including SAP's co-CEO Leo Apotheker, Alcatel-Lucent's CEO Ben Verwaayen, Intel chairman Craig Barrett,... [02 Mar 2009]
Photos: What will be in your pocket this year?
Photo The E55, pictured here being announced at Nokia's press conference, boasts up to a month of standby time and is the world's smallest smartphone, according to the company. It is also the first handset to have Nokia... [24 Feb 2009]
Avoiding Self-Inflicted Security Breaches Through Effective Hard Drive Decommissioning
White Paper According to a NAID report of a Conference Board survey, data security has become a primary concern for top executives. Every business has data that must be destroyed. While hackers and viruses present a... [31 Jan 2009]
Do you need video in your enterprise?
Comment With telephony, a few people who would normally have a conference call can enrich the experience through a video chat. If additional collaboration tools can be added to the conversation, such as a shot of a real white... [05 Jan 2009]
