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YouTube Plans to Increase Headcount by 30 Percent in 2011

Early this year, Google announced that it plans to hire a lot more people, 2011 will see the biggest headcount increase yet. It seems that the growth spur is spread all over the company, YouTube is now announcing that it plans to hire more people, a lot more people actually, it wants to be 30 bigger by the end of the...

11 March 2011
05:40 GMT

Reddit's Interesting Challenges for Software Engineer Hires

The last massive wave of hires at Reddit hasn't settled yet, but the site isn't slowing down. After doubling its system admin team, and doubling its sales team it is now looking to double its engineering team as well. And this time around the numbers are even bigger, when all is said and done, Reddit will h...

11 February 2011
13:03 GMT

Facebook Grabs Google’s Chrome OS Architect

Facebook may not have Google’s deep pockets, but with hundreds of millions in funding and about $1 billion in yearly revenue, it’s doing pretty well. Enough to snatch one of Google’s top engineers, at least, and at the worst possible time for the search company. Facebook has now hired Matt Papakipos...

29 June 2010
03:44 GMT

Twitter Kicks Off 2010 with 10 New Hires

Twitter is starting off 2010 in force by announcing, more or less officially, 10 new hires to bolster its growing team and ambitions. The microblogging platform maintains lists of all of its employees which revealed that the company has been snatching up a number of people from big tech companies like Google and a c...

4 January 2010
11:38 GMT

Google Snatches Up Former Microsoftie Don Dodge

After months of Google losing execs and top level engineers, it's nice to see the company reverse the process for a change by snatching up engineering evangelist Don Dodge, recently laid off by Microsoft. Very recently, in fact, Dodge has only been out of a job for 11 days and blitzed through Google's hiri...

16 November 2009
09:05 GMT

Apple Looking to Secure iPhone OS Booting and Installation

Apple is looking to strengthen the security of its iPhone OS by hiring “a talented and inspired manager to lead a team [...] responsible for secure booting and installation of the OS, partitioning and hardening of security domains within the OS, cryptographic services, and risk analysis of security threats.&rdq...

3 November 2009
09:14 GMT

Flickr Reaches 4 Billion Photos, Continues to Grow

It seems that every autumn, Flickr continues to pass over yet another landmark in image hosting. While in November 2007, it reached the 2 billion photo mark and in the month of November 2008 it reached the next milestone, 3 billion, the company got ahead of itself with one month and reached the 4 billion mark a few d...

14 October 2009
09:47 GMT

Apple Hiring 'At-Home' Tech Support Personnel

A document seen by the people at Cult of Mac reveals that Apple is planning to hire about 450 “At Home” technical support staff in various cities across the U.S. Apple's new-gen staff will do the work of technical support right from the comfort of their own “ergonomically fitted chair” &n...

18 May 2009
04:21 GMT

Apple Recruits Security Expert Ivan Krstić

There will always be debates regarding whether or not Macs are 100% reliable, as far as security is concerned. However, Apple itself can tell you that isn't so. Otherwise, why would the company hire the former director of security architecture at OLPC (One Laptop per Child)? According to several reports, Ivan K...

14 May 2009
04:46 GMT

Job Listing Hints at 3G-Enabled Mac Tablet

The folks at Coputerworld have found quite a piece of evidence that Apple is seriously considering 3G hardware in a new portable Mac, perhaps the long-rumored tablet Apple fanatics are waiting for with their fingers crossed. The vital clues were spotted within a job posting over at Apple's Job Opportunities pag...

6 May 2009
09:52 GMT

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 organizatio...

28 May 2007
13:51 GMT

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 J...

15 May 2007
10:45 GMT


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