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Idc Predictions 2013
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Idc Predictions 2013

The ICT industry is in the midst of a once every 20-25 years shift to a new technology platform for growth and innovation. We call it the 3rd Platform, built on...

Why Employers Don't Hire the Very Best Candidates
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Why Employers Don't Hire the Very Best Candidates

Employers are often more focused on hiring someone they would like to hang out with than they are on finding the person who can best do the job, suggests a study...

The 10 Best-Paying College Majors For Women
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The 10 Best-Paying College Majors For Women

Despite women's gains in educational attainment (they are now the majority of college graduates), an ugly gender pay gap persists.

Demand for Cloud Skills Doesn't Stop at the Data Center Door
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Demand for Cloud Skills Doesn't Stop at the Data Center Door

Cloud computing skills may be providing non-tech professionals and managers an edge in the job market as well.

Apple's Cue Seeks Overhaul of Maps Amid Duel With Google
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Apple's Cue Seeks Overhaul of Maps Amid Duel With Google

Apple Inc.'s Eddy Cue, who took charge of map software last month, is racing to turn around the troubled service, firing a senior manager, and urging partners to...

The Cult of Amazon: How a Bookseller Invented the Future of Computing
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The Cult of Amazon: How a Bookseller Invented the Future of Computing

In most of corporate America, you write the press release when your creation is finished. But at Amazon, you write it before you've even begun.

Personalities Influence Workforce Planning
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Personalities Influence Workforce Planning

Concordia University researcher Mohammed Othman says his mathematical model, which uses psychological data from personality tests, could improve engineer workforce...

Special Report: Silicon Valley's Dirty Secret—Age Bias
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Special Report: Silicon Valley's Dirty Secret—Age Bias

When Randy Adams, 60, was looking for a chief-executive officer job in Silicon Valley last year, he got turned down from position after position that he thought...

Hatching Ideas, and Companies, By the Dozens at Mit
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Hatching Ideas, and Companies, By the Dozens at Mit

How do you take particles in a test tube, or components in a tiny chip, and turn them into a $100 million company?

IT Employment is Still Soaring, and So are Bonuses
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IT Employment is Still Soaring, and So are Bonuses

With unemployment in the IT industry at historically low levels, companies are increasing their payments of bonuses as they scramble to fill open positions and...

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New Start-Up Hubs Challenging Silicon Valley: Study

Silicon Valley remains the world's most attractive spot for technology start-ups with other locations around the world catching up, according to a report published...

An Amazon Engineer Had a Little Idea That Turned Into a Billion-Dollar Business
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An Amazon Engineer Had a Little Idea That Turned Into a Billion-Dollar Business

Once upon a time, Amazon was a dot-com-era technology company best known for selling books.

As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living
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As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living

Shawn and Stephanie Grimes spent much of the last two years pursuing their dream of doing research and development for Apple, the world’s most successful corporation...

Demand for Software Engineers Keeps Climbing and So Do the Salaries
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Demand for Software Engineers Keeps Climbing and So Do the Salaries

Skyrocketing demand is leading to higher salaries and improved career prospects for software engineers across the United States.

Want Better Employees? Get Somebody Else to Rate Their Personalities
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Want Better Employees? Get Somebody Else to Rate Their Personalities

Businesses will get more accurate assessments of potential and current employees if they do away with self-rated personality tests and ask those being assessed...

The Workday After Tomorrow
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The Workday After Tomorrow

What happens when business as usual is impossible?

How Star Wars Tech Changed Silicon Valley
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How Star Wars Tech Changed Silicon Valley

When Oren Jacob was a teenager, he hung up Star Wars posters on his bedroom wall. In his early 20s at a college dorm at Berkeley, he replaced them with a smallPixar...

Google Ventures Beefs Up Fund Size to $300 Million a Year
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Google Ventures Beefs Up Fund Size to $300 Million a Year

Google will increase the cash it allocates to its venture-capital arm to up to $300 million a year from $200 million, catapulting Google Ventures into the top echelon...

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Can Apple Still Innovate on a Shoestring?

In 1998, Steve Jobs told Fortune: "Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have." He shut down Apple's long-term research lab division to prove...

Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel For Mac
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Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel For Mac

Apple Inc. is exploring ways to replace Intel Corp. processors in its Mac personal computers with a version of the chip technology it uses in the iPhone and iPad...
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