PC World – Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled an updated line of iPods this week, including the updated iPod Touch 4 which is essentially an iPhone 4 without the phone function. The range of gadgets available from Apple offer a degree of consistency that gives it a tactical advantage over competing smartphones and tablets. More information: click here
Tech Industry Managers: Little Men in Big Shoes?
When I was ready to transition from computer programmer to project manager, my employer, Xerox Corporation, sent me to its huge training center in Leesburg, Virginia. Over two weeks, the people there taught me some of the skills I needed in order to succeed in my new role: managing projects, motivating people, complying with employment regulations, and preparing status reports and presentations. The company also encouraged me to complete an MBA, on a part-time basis, at New York University. It gave me lots of time off and paid for the tuition.
Tech companies in the internet era offer their employees some great perks. But do you think that Facebook, Groupon, or Zynga provide budding professionals with any serious management training? Not at all. Given the way tech companies grow and the HR challenges they face, management training and career development are more important than ever. But few have the time—they are too busy surviving.
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Tired Of The Old School Network Marketing Techniques?
Are you tired of the old school network marketing techniques? You know the 3 foot rule, hanging flyers, bugging your family and friends, and holding hotel meetings. If you enjoy those and have th… More information: click here
Don't Know What to Do to Make Money on the Internet? Start With These 4 Simple Methods
Perhaps, you have been contemplating on how to make money on the internet. Fortunately, there are many easy things to do online to let you earn passive income. Some of these methods require only lit… More information: click here
Inside Facebook Seattle [Pictures]
A couple weeks ago, Facebook officially opened their new office in Seattle, WA. At the time, Facebook’s Ari Steinberg (the main engineer in charge up there) wrote a post and shared a few pictures of what it looks like. But those pictures sort of made it look like a dismal, dreary version of Office Space (I know Seattle is cloudy all the time, but come on). So we’ve got a few better ones that show actual signs of life.
Just as when Facebook opened their new Bay Area office, and when Twitter opened their office, I think it’s sort of neat to see pictures inside these offices — to see where the sausage is made. We’ve been thinking about doing something like this for TechCrunch TV as well — think: Cribs for tech startups. We’ll expose ridiculous murals and raid startups’ fridges. Would that interest you?
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Apple's Ping tops 1M users in two days, but it's no Google Buzz (Devindra Hardawar/VentureBeat)
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Apple’s Ping tops 1M users in two days, but it’s no Google Buzz — Apple announced just a few hours ago that its new music-centered social network Ping has surpassed 1 million users in a mere two days. — While the announcement may seem impressive, if you consider that iTunes …
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Mobile users still wary of being found, survey says (Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson – Feel the need to "check in" on Foursquare or Facebook every time you saunter into a restaurant, browse the goods at your neighborhood grocery store, or cram into a rock concert? Well, if you, you’re still in the minority — and you’re also probably a guy below 40 — according to the latest research. More information: click here
3, 2, 1, Lift-Off! Boost Your Affiliate Marketing Sales With These 3 Internet Marketing Strategies
The affiliate marketing industry is becoming saturated with an ever increasing number of internet marketers serious on making it big online. However, the success rate of affiliate marketing remains … More information: click here
Stealth Mode Watch: Another Nail In The Coffin Of ‘Stealth’
Stealth Mode Watch, a searchable data spider of often very revealing SEC form D filings, is the brain child of Denis Papathanasiou, who came up with the idea while researching funding options (a.k.a spying) for his ebooks startup Fifobooks, “I was just using it to keep tabs on specific investors and other competitors in the ebook space, but I mentioned it to a few people, and they were interested enough to want to use it themselves.”
Papathanasiou then added a public API and launched it in beta under its own domain. Right now the site allows a simple search mode which shows results for the past four weeks and then an extended API mode which allows results past that date as well as filtering parameters like “people,”"companies” and “places” (Humans beware: The data is delivered in XML files).
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Taiwan's HTC: iPhone's `quiet' challenger (AP)
<p><a href=”http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100905/ap_on_re_as/as_apple_s_challenger”><img src=”http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100905/capt.a4111cd1a06a4e259da9bed171ba76da-59a185254e554076ba6e278cd6e98ad9-0.jpg?x=130&y=83&q=85&sig=xi4Rf0H_Mjdz4q73zplDOQ–” align=”left” height=”83″ width=”130″ alt=”FILE – In this July 27, 2010 file photo, Peter Chou, chief executive officer of Taiwan's High Tech Computer Corp., or HTC Corp., talks about the introduction of the brand into China's market during a press conference held in Beijing, China. East Asia is the world's electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are anonymous. Now HTC Corp., the Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes with Apple's iPhone. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)” border=”0″ /></a>AP – East Asia is the world's electronics factory, yet unless they are Japanese, producers are largely anonymous. Now HTC Corp., a Taiwanese maker of smart phones, is moving out of the shadows and trying to establish its own brand name as it competes with Apple's iPhone.</p><br clear=”all”/> More information: click here
