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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...

What's Gone Wrong With Hp?
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What's Gone Wrong With Hp?

In 2010, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s then-chief executive Mark Hurd boasted the company was "the largest IT company in the world" and said "we are still not to our full...

5 Most Surprising Things Heard at Harvard's Cyberposium
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5 Most Surprising Things Heard at Harvard's Cyberposium

There was the usual talk about the excitement of the startup universe and the thrill of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School's 18th annual Cyberposium on...

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With Computerized Cars Ahead, Gm Puts It Outsourcing in the Rearview Mirror

For a dramatic sign of the strategy reversal under way at General Motors as it moves on from its 2009 bankruptcy, look no further than the IT department.

Women 'under-Represented' in Emerging Nations' S&t
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Women 'under-Represented' in Emerging Nations' S&t

Countries leading in technological advancement have failed to open up their knowledge societies to women, according to a recent report from Women in Global Science...

Beam Me to My Meeting!
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Beam Me to My Meeting!

European scientists have integrated robotics, video, and various sensor and display technologies to transport someone into a geographically distant meeting room...

I Meet Tumblr Whizz-Kid David Karp
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I Meet Tumblr Whizz-Kid David Karp

There's a joke running around about social media: Facebook is how you want people to see you, Twitter is how you see yourself; Tumblr is—"Hey look! Funny cat picture...

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The 10 Silicon Valley Companies You Wish You Worked for (or Started)

The history of Silicon Valley is the history of digital technology. To become a part of that history, do you go to work for one of the giants—Apple, Google, Intel...

One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education
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One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education

The headquarters of what has rapidly become the largest school in the world, at 10 million students strong, is stuffed into a few large communal rooms in a decaying...

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Apple R&D Spending Up Nearly 40 Percent in 2012

Apple increased the amount it spent on research and development during 2012, though it remained a fraction of its overall spending.
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