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Who Suffers When the Boss Is a Bully?
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Who Suffers When the Boss Is a Bully?

Abusive bosses who target employees with ridicule and public criticism not only have a detrimental effect on the employees they bully, they also negatively impact...

Tech Jobs Account for ­p to 14 Percent of Hiring in January
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Tech Jobs Account for ­p to 14 Percent of Hiring in January

The information technology industry accounted for 22,100 of the 157,000 new jobs added to the U.S. economy in January, according to Foote Partners. Meanwhile,...

Drone Boosters Say Farmers, Not Cops, Are the Biggest ­.s. Robot Market
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Drone Boosters Say Farmers, Not Cops, Are the Biggest ­.s. Robot Market

When the flying robots that loiter in Afghanistan's and Yemen's airspace come home, they won't just be headed for the local police station.

Facebook, It's Time For a Break
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Facebook, It's Time For a Break

We all have that friend who has stubbornly disappeared from Facebook at one time or another, only to reappear some weeks or months later.

Silicon Valley Job Growth Has Reached Dot-Com Boom Levels, Report Says
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Silicon Valley Job Growth Has Reached Dot-Com Boom Levels, Report Says

Silicon Valley's job growth has returned to dot-com boom levels, and San Francisco has emerged as a major new tech hub. But good times have not returned for all...

Study Finds American CEOs Are Worth Their Paychecks
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Study Finds American CEOs Are Worth Their Paychecks

A University of Virginia Darden School of Business study finds that American CEOs are worth their paychecks.

Qihoo Takes on Baidu in China's Search Engine Wars
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Qihoo Takes on Baidu in China's Search Engine Wars

In the past few years, Zhou Hongyi, the 43-year-old co-founder of Chinese antivirus company Qihoo 360 Technology, has engaged in high-profile legal conflicts with...

Samsung Plans to Conquer Silicon Valley
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Samsung Plans to Conquer Silicon Valley

Last December, a piece in the MIT Technology Review revealed that Young Sohn, Samsung Electronics' new Silicon Valley-based chief strategy officer, uses Apple products...

Inside Michael Dell's World
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Inside Michael Dell's World

Michael Dell is close to finishing a risky $23 billion deal to take private the computer company he founded nearly 30 years ago, in an effort to remake Dell Inc...

Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook
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Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook

Jay Parikh sits at a desk inside Building 16 at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and his administrative assistant, Genie Samuel, sits next to...

Once Blackberry Focused, a Campus Widens Its View
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Once Blackberry Focused, a Campus Widens Its View

The University of Waterloo, in a city that people outside Canada would struggle to find on a map, is one of the world’s best technology schools.

Ticketmaster Dumps 'hated' Captcha Verification System
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Ticketmaster Dumps 'hated' Captcha Verification System

The world's largest online ticket retailer is to stop requiring users to enter hard-to-read words in order to prove they are human.

Foxconn Says to Boost China Worker Participation in ­nion
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Foxconn Says to Boost China Worker Participation in ­nion

Foxconn Technology Group, the assembler of most of the world's top-selling electronic gadgets including Apple Inc's iPhone, is trying to raise participation in...

20 Tech Companies That Pay Interns Boatloads of Money
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20 Tech Companies That Pay Interns Boatloads of Money

If you intern for a high-profile tech company, you can make more money than the average U.S. citizen.

Senate’s H-1B Visa Proposal Goes Far Beyond Microsoft’s
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Senate’s H-1B Visa Proposal Goes Far Beyond Microsoft’s

The Immigration Innovation Act, recently introduced in the U.S. Senate, would increase the annual quota of H-1B visas for those workers from 65,000 to 115,000....

Google Asks: How Much Is Mapping Worth?
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Google Asks: How Much Is Mapping Worth?

How much has mapping software changed your life?

Chipmaker Intel Faces Long March to Mobile Salvation
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Chipmaker Intel Faces Long March to Mobile Salvation

Intel Corp, the world's biggest chipmaker, opened a new front on Thursday in a long and stuttering campaign to get its processors into mobile phones, although it...

Why I Cheer When My Employees Leave
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Why I Cheer When My Employees Leave

Some companies are at their most vindictive when their employees are at their most ambitious. And when I say ambitious I mean the worker is considering leaving...

Online Social Networking at Work Can Improve Morale and Reduce Employee Turnover
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Online Social Networking at Work Can Improve Morale and Reduce Employee Turnover

By allowing employees to participate in a work-sponsored internal social networking site, a company can improve morale and reduce turnover, according to a Baylor...

The Natural Experimenter
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The Natural Experimenter

Josh Angrist is an acclaimed experimentalist who does not work in a lab.
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