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Michael Tchao, one of the original developers of Apple’s Newton personal digital assistant, has returned to Apple after a 15-year absence as vice president of product marketing, according to Steve Dowling, an Apple spokesman. Tchao will report to Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of product mar... |
29 September 2009
10:56 GMT |
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The Cupertino, Calif.-based Mac maker is facing a lawsuit from one of its former employees, with the suit alleging that Apple has failed to pay proper wages for overtime work, AppleInsider reports. According to the filings, the company allegedly demanded its employees to work 40 extra hours per week and then failed t... |
7 August 2009
03:51 GMT |
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The Arlington County Police Department Homicide/Robbery Unit is investigating a shooting that occurred in North Arlington this weekend – an African American male in his 20s shot an Apple store female employee and then fled. According to the police report, customers and employees were in the Apple retail store a... |
6 July 2009
04:13 GMT |
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According to recent SEC filings, Apple's retail locations had 14,000 full-time employees at the end of Q2 2009. The figures show a 1,600 drop from the previous quarter, with the average revenue per store declining by 17%, falling to $5.9 million from $7.1 million in 2008. Nevertheless, Apple's revenue grew ... |
27 April 2009
03:22 GMT |
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In November 2008, Apple was happily announcing that ex-IBM chip design expert, Mark Papermaster, had joined the company as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering. The announcement came after IBM's ex Blade server guru had settled legally with IBM, on the terms of his leaving the company."Mark is a... |
13 April 2009
08:12 GMT |
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Apple has officially announced that the litigation between IBM and Mark Papermaster has been resolved and, as a result, Mark Papermaster would be coming to Apple as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering, reporting to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, on April 24.Papermaster has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical... |
28 January 2009
06:32 GMT |
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NeoWin has posted the shocking comments of two former Belkin employees (who wished to remain anonymous), disclosing that bad practices at Belkin are indeed true, despite an official statement from Belkin denying such allegations.(First things first) Belkin International, Inc. offers an extensive range of products des... |
26 January 2009
05:52 GMT |
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Online games are starting to become one of the most popular types of entertainment out there. We all play or have played various online titles like MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) in order to relax and enjoy ourselves, but it seems that some people become very addicted to them and start negl... |
16 January 2009
13:01 GMT |
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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 that seems appropriate for a position at the Apple Reta... |
6 June 2008
05:44 GMT |
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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 photos taken by customers on display iPhones. Although categorized as "innocuous" by the publication, it seems that Apple isn't fine with s... |
26 May 2008
08:27 GMT |
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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 Vi... |
5 May 2008
04:28 GMT |
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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, ev... |
21 April 2008
04:11 GMT |
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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,... |
17 April 2008
16:31 GMT |
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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 workin... |
15 April 2008
08:40 GMT |
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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 ... |
3 April 2008
17:31 GMT |
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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 of... |
21 January 2008
08:16 GMT |
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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 themse... |
7 January 2008
06:19 GMT |
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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 gues... |
28 December 2007
10:39 GMT |
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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 o... |
27 November 2007
10:00 GMT |
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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 com... |
27 November 2007
08:55 GMT |
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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 Seatt... |
21 November 2007
02:51 GMT |
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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 informa... |
7 November 2007
13:13 GMT |
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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 exp... |
16 October 2007
06:20 GMT |
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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 ... |
6 September 2007
06:20 GMT |
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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... |
5 September 2007
02:50 GMT |
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A very interesting subject can be found on a well known gaming site today, regarding former Rockstar employee's labeling the company as the "most poorly-managed company in the history of the planet." According to "Jeff's" account, people over at Rockstar seemed nice blokes, all of them, but the management w... |
30 July 2007
10:37 GMT |
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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 Uni... |
16 July 2007
16:26 GMT |
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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 Inte... |
16 July 2007
02:46 GMT |
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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; Den... |
25 June 2007
02:00 GMT |
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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 Mo... |
8 June 2007
08:21 GMT |
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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 organizatio... |
28 May 2007
13:51 GMT |
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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 interestin... |
24 May 2007
12:46 GMT |
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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 J... |
15 May 2007
10:45 GMT |
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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 ... |
9 May 2007
03:52 GMT |
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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 Teenage... |
4 May 2007
07:05 GMT |
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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'... |
29 March 2007
11:15 GMT |
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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 ... |
23 March 2007
04:39 GMT |
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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 ... |
22 March 2007
06:23 GMT |
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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... |
8 March 2007
06:44 GMT |
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