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| Apple 'Stealing' Other Companies' Employees |  | Apple has started a somewhat aggressive initiative to nab good working citizens from other companies using enticement cards saying "You’re amazing. We should talk." Existing Apple Store employees are encouraged to hand these cards to whomever they bump into ... [read more >>] | | 06 June 2008, 05:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple Store Employees Fired over 'Nothing' |  | ifoAppleStore, the website handling news and information about Apple Inc.'s retail stores, reported last week that a Glendale Apple Store employee was fired for posting photo ... [read more >>] | | 26 May 2008, 08:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Employees Keep Leaving Google |  | Google is said to be a paradise, especially due to its amazing Googlecampus and to its employees. Let's not forget the great conditions and the satisfaction you get when working for such a popular company. However, employees are continuously leaving Google although they all admit that working for the Mountain View-based search company was a dream which came true.
Jeffrey Veen, who worked for Google as Design Manager, was ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 04:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Wanted: 600 New Googlers! |  | The Mountain View-based company Google will launch a new market attack in China, a country in which the search giant has encountered serious problems during its evolution. In the past, Baidu, which is often described as the Chinese Google, managed to provide a remarkable resistance to their industry evolution and, even if some people considered that the US company could conquer the local market, it hasn't. Baidu is still the ... [read more >>] | | 21 April 2008, 04:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Employees To Quit Their Jobs If Companies Block Facebook |  | I have to say just from the beginning that I'm not one of those Facebook-addicted fans and I have only created an account for testing purposes. Maybe I'm a little bit subjective, but I can't really understand people's addiction to Facebook, and to social networks in general. OK, Facebook is great, I admit it, but from creating an account on such a website to quitting your job because your employer decides to b ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 16:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ex-Google Employee, "Google Has Problems, Too!" |  | Having a job at Google is somehow like living in paradise, all the people who have ever worked for the Mountain View-based company explain. And it's probably true because starting with cafeterias or bars and ending with pool tables or all kinds of games, they're all available for free for the persons working for Google.
However, it seems like the super search giant has problems too as an ex-Google employee who refus ... [read more >>] | | 15 April 2008, 08:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google to Fire 300 Employees |  | Google acquired DoubleClick, an important name on the online advertising market, for $3.1 billion and along with the finalization of the transaction, the Mountain View company will also impose a few major changes. One of them is quite bad news for some Googlers because no less than 300 employees will be fired due to the Google-DoubleClick mix. According to ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2008, 17:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo! Laying off 1,000 – 2,400 Employees |  | The date it will all go down, unless a miracle happens and the Yahoo! stock grows overnight to a beautiful sum, is January 29th. The rumors have been first heard in mid-December 2007, when AOL was forced to cut its numbers in a similar way because of low performance by its team.
The Silicon Alley Insider was tipped off by an un-cited source that the amount of people to be laid off by the Sunnyvale-based Internet company is of ... [read more >>] | | 21 January 2008, 08:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Is the Google Ship Leaking? |  | I was asking last week whether it was something wrong with Google that its veterans just defect to join other start-ups or some other projects, or it was just about the end of the line as a career to be working at the Mountain View based company, without higher peaks to reach for, no will and desire to outdo ... [read more >>] | | 07 January 2008, 06:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Dubbed the most Employee-Friendly Company |  | Does receiving a CV every 25 seconds sound like a lot of CVs to go through at the end of the day? It should be, it’s the Google standard, meaning that future successful companies will measure against it and everything it does. Out of the 3456 people who want to join the Googlers only 9 actually make it so I guess that one shouldn’t have his hopes too high when applying.
A Forbes poll conducted on 446 companies’ 100 thousand e ... [read more >>] | | 28 December 2007, 10:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Americans Love Working Remotely |  | I guess everybody likes to stay home and work remotely without having to go the office in order to do his regular activities. A recent study conducted by Citrix revealed that 23 percent of the Americans and 41 percent of the business owners already work remotely using the power of the Internet. Moreover, 62 percent of the ones who cannot work from their homes said that they would like to do so.
"Web commuting certainly ap ... [read more >>] | | 27 November 2007, 10:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Did You Try Hacking Your Ex-Company? |  | Many companies are afraid of ex-employees who got access to the internal security technologies, passwords or computers, a survey conducted by Citrix revealed. No less than 49 percent of the respondents considered that IT engineers or employees who worked in the security departments are a real threat for the Irish companies. In addition, 51 percent of them considered that hackers and malware represent a bigger threat than the angr ... [read more >>] | | 27 November 2007, 08:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google’s Baby Delivery Service - On Demand Only |  | It’s not the next step in cyber-parenting, it’s not even the announcement of a new service that might be rolled out in an indefinite future, it’s just the strange happenings of two of the Googlers that were lucky enough each to lend a hand in the delivery of two babies.
Matthew, an engineer in the Seattle/Kirkland office according to the official Google blog, arrived at work as usual but found that his expectant colleague Min ... [read more >>] | | 21 November 2007, 02:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Salesforce Leaked Information Helps Web Attacks |  | Salesforce.com, one of the leaders of the on-demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) industry offered customers contact details to phishers due to the naivety of an employee. It appears that a Salesforce employee was the target of a phishing attempt, providing access to the company's client contact information list.
"We learned that a salesforce.com employee had been the victim of a phishing scam that allowed ... [read more >>] | | 07 November 2007, 13:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| AOL Looking To Dismiss 2,000 Employees |  | AOL's CEO Randy Falco sent a letter to all the company's employees to inform them about the firm's latest plans which also includes a 20 percent slashing of the workforce. As far I can see, AOL plans to reduce the cost and to maximize the efficiency in order to reach all its goals which include the expansion in approximately 30 countries all over the world. It's a well-known fact that AOL started a powerful Eu ... [read more >>] | | 16 October 2007, 06:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Do You Play Games at Work? |  | The market research Information Solutions Group conducted a survey concerning the employees who play games at work, revealing that no less than 24 percent of the respondents admitted they played video games during the working day. The research included 2,842 employees and was conducted by PopCap.com, a website which is focused only on gaming content. According to Reuters, 8 percent of the companies' executive also play games ... [read more >>] | | 06 September 2007, 06:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Free Porn Attracts Employees |  | A new survey conducted by Money Supermarket revealed that the Internet users are very attracted by pornography but what's more interesting is that many of them intend to download adult material at work. According to Web User, no less than 8 percent of the users who usually download porn want to do it at work, an activity that would surely reduce the work efficiency and employees' performances. It was revealed that most ... [read more >>] | | 05 September 2007, 02:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google For Students = El Dorado for Treasure Hunters |  | The Mountain View company is not only the owner of the best search engine on the Internet but also the most attractive place to work for most of the students from every corner of the world. If you don't believe me, you should because this statement was revealed by a new research conducted by the Swedish firm Universum on more than 8.100 students as Reuters reported. According to the same publication, 17 percent of the students from 10 ... [read more >>] | | 16 July 2007, 16:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google – The Company with No Employees |  | 12,328. This is Google's magic number. Or at least it was. If you don't get it, this is the number of the Google employees reported by Wikipedia on March 31, 2007. Today, the number is probably 12,326 as two engineers who struggled to make the Mountain View company become the most important firm on the Internet left Googleplex. The first one was Jason Shellen, a Blogger guru who joined Google when the search giant acqui ... [read more >>] | | 16 July 2007, 02:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Now's Your Chance! Google Pays a Lot of Money for New Talents! |  | The Mountain View company announced the availability of a new job opening as the search giant wants to hire several full-time SketchUp trainers to teach new users interested in the 3D modeling tool. The new jobs are available for multiple US locations including Ann Arbor, MI; Boston, MA; Boulder, CO; Chicago, IL; Denver, CO; Phoenix, AZ; Seattle, WA; and Washington, D.C. Among the responsibilities, we can mention: traveling to tr ... [read more >>] | | 25 June 2007, 02:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Life at the Googleplex Published on YouTube |  | Several clips meant to show life at Googleplex were published on the online video sharing service YouTube showing actual Google employees talking about their jobs. Although there's no official statement concerning the goal of the clips, it looks like a new attempt of campaign meant to improve the image of the Mountain View company and attract some new employees. The clips were first observed by Valleywag that also sustained the guest ... [read more >>] | | 08 June 2007, 08:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube to Become a Music Service |  | The online video sharing service YouTube is now aiming to bring music lovers on their page after the parent company Google hired Michele Ktel, an ex-radio broadcaster. Basically, Ktel's goal will be based on music content, the new employee planning to create several YouTube channels to allow a better organization of the music videos. As far I can see, Michele Ktel created only one YouTube channel, codenamed YouTunes, inspire ... [read more >>] | | 28 May 2007, 13:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google's HR Stinks! |  | A recent story concerning the Google Human Resources department is affecting the Mountain View company's image. Jeff Barr presented a funny story about the Google recruiting system, sustaining that he was contacted by some search giant's recruiters although he refused their offer in the past. The interesting aspect is that Jeff Barr talked with the same Google employee but he sustained that he forgot he spoke to him already. &quo ... [read more >>] | | 24 May 2007, 12:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo Wants To Boost Its Finances |  | Yahoo hired a new chief financial officer after the company named Blake Jorgensen the new leader of the financial domain. The 47-year-old man, who will replace Susan Decker, is the co-founder of investment bank Thomas Weisel Partners. The Houston Chronicle reported that Jorgensen would begin the new job at Yahoo on June 4. "The move to put her in the crucial role of fixing the company's ad system was widely seen as making her a p ... [read more >>] | | 15 May 2007, 10:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Gets Involved in Linux Development |  | Robert Love, an ex-chief architect of the Linux Desktop department at Novell decided to resign his position and accept Google's offer to join the Open Source Program. It seems that Robert Love will join the Google Code team, a special service powered by the search giant that struggles to offer important content to the developers from all around the world.
"I am jubilant to announce that I have accepted an offer of e ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2007, 03:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google: Bring Your Kid to Work! |  | Google Seattle recently hosted a special day for the local office, allowing the employees to bring their kids to work. The special event, codenamed Bring Your Daughter/Son To Work Day, was held last Thursday and attracted a huge and loud crowd in the Google office. "Those kids are loud! How about a Bring Your Teenager To Work Day? At least surly teens can be quiet and stare at the wall. Still, the science stuff that was the ... [read more >>] | | 04 May 2007, 07:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What Is Mobbing? |  | In the European Union, 10 % of the employees go to work as if they were going to a concentration camp.
Mobbing is rampant and is steadily increasing.
But only half of the harassed employees will suffer psychological or physical sequels, like depression, ulcer, skin problems, insomnia, post-traumatic stress.
That's exactly what happens to the victims of a war, catastrophe or assault. The most affected persons by mobbing are ... [read more >>] | | 29 March 2007, 11:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Here Comes the Google Team |  | OK, I admit that Google is one of the largest companies in the entire world and probably the most powerful firm if you refer to search engines. What makes Google so powerful and attractive? The answer is, of course, its employees. Google is more than a simple company; it is a huge community of professional employees working hardly to bring the search giant’s name in the spotlights with new and powerful products. Some time ago, Forbes onlin ... [read more >>] | | 23 March 2007, 04:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Hires Ordinary Users |  | YouTube is often regarded as a huge community of users that are continuously uploading new videos on the page, contributing to the impressive community hosted by Google. Since the Google acquisition in October 2006 for $1.6 billion, YouTube was attacked by a lot of other companies that were accusing the search giant for publishing videos without authorization. Although Google’s video service recorded so many complaints, the compa ... [read more >>] | | 22 March 2007, 06:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Really Wants More Employees |  | Google tries a different strategy to conquer Asia after many of its attempts were useless because the Chinese leader Baidu is really the most powerful portal of the region. Since the company announced its plans to expand the services in China, Google tried to improve its presence in the country by opening new offices or introducing new Chinese online solutions but Baidu's monopoly is quite impressive. Today, the search giant gives it ... [read more >>] | | 08 March 2007, 06:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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