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News They're all hiring. In the current economic climate and amid the constant stream of reports of redundancies and cutbacks, although it may seem gloomy, there's no harm in preparing for the worse. Tech employees are a... [23 Oct 2008]
Has tech got the power to punch through the crunch?
News Tech companies haven't experienced the hiring binge that occurred in the late 1990s, when a combination of internet investment, repair work on older computer systems to deal with Y2K transition issues, and massive... [21 Oct 2008]
Apple's 'private' route to resolve 'Mac clone' dispute
News Psystar has never appeared to have a lot of resources to use on its behalf, despite hiring a big-time Silicon Valley law firm to represent it against Apple. Apple and Psystar have agreed to pursue a mediated settlement... [21 Oct 2008]
Twitter steps up fight against spam
News The hiring move was praised by the Twitter community. Twitter is stepping up its actions to fight spam, which has been plaguing the site since earlier this year and appears to be spiking this week. The company is looking... [17 Oct 2008]
UK tech Skills Academy needs YOU
News Understanding the business is absolutely critical to being a good IT professional now so hiring in from [non-IT areas of] business and adding technology aspects will be a good route to train people up," Price... [08 Oct 2008]
Are you heading for an IT train wreck?
News It claims one warning sign for organisations is they are spending big on hiring programmers to keep an old system running, when what they need is a strategy for squeezing the investment in the old system - and putting a... [08 Oct 2008]
Is tech hiring on freeze?
News Following news of Microsoft's "hiring chill", what are other tech giants' hiring plans? Of course, the real question is at what pace they continue that hiring. Microsoft said in a... [06 Oct 2008]
Canonical hires Ubuntu makeover team
News Canonical, the leading backer of the Ubuntu version of Linux, is hiring a team to help make open-source software on the desktop more appealing and easier to use. He wrote: "We are hiring a team who will... [12 Sep 2008]
Does an MBA lead the way to career success?
News But he makes some keen observations on the nature of MBAs: "An MBA course tries to teach people in a classroom the lessons which can only be properly learned in the actual arena of business: valuation, negotiation, trading,... [12 Aug 2008]
UK students outsource IT coursework to India
News UK IT students are hiring coders in India to complete their coursework for as little as £5 a go. A-level and university pupils are logging onto computer coding websites and farming out their work to foreign IT graduates. [25 Jun 2008]
Google - the best workplace in the UK
News But the challenge we set ourselves - of hiring the best possible people and giving them the chance to reach extraordinary achievements, is what makes Google such a special place to work. At its Silicon Valley complex... [28 May 2008]
IT chiefs cutting back on contractors
News Ric Francis, executive director of operations, said: "We are reducing IT contractor spending but by reconverting to permanent," adding: "We are hiring as we speak. This saves money and also gets around our current freeze... [28 Mar 2008]
Facebook founder talks 'Google-isation' and aggressive growth…
News We're hiring very aggressively just in terms of finding as many talented people as we can, and right now we're having a lot of success in doing that. Facebook has announced it has hired six-year Google veteran Sheryl... [06 Mar 2008]
Banks lay off IT staff as big tech projects get the chop
News The report states: "We are seeing asset management and the hedge fund space continuing to be active in hiring senior IT staff, with an emerging trend for high quality change/PMO types to drive major change initiatives... [22 Feb 2008]
Google invests in web to fight disaster
News But it officially started in October when Rasmussen came on board and began hiring people and reaching out to the aid community. Google.org's technology project to help save lives in the event of natural disasters or... [17 Jan 2008]
