Tag archive: Jobs

With all the gloomy news regarding the economy doing the rounds these days, it’s good to hear that there are some industries doing well. For example, research sponsored by TechNet, a group of bipartisan business executives from the tech world, has revealed that America’s app economy currently accounts for nearly half a million jobs. Not bad for an industry that didn’t even exist before 2007, when Apple’s app-hungry iPhone was introduced to the… Read More

Announced earlier today, Facebook and the United States Department of Labor are collaborating to bring more visibility to three million job openings. This initiative is called the Social Job Partnership and also combines the efforts of the National Association of Colleges and Employers, the National Association of State Workforce Agencies and the DirectEmployers Association. Facebook will be targeting areas of high unemployment through… Read More

Earlier today, the Santa Clara County Public Health Department released the official death certificate for Steve Jobs. According to the certificate, the immediate cause of death was respiratory arrest due to the “metastatic pancreas neuroendocrine tumor” as the underlying cause of the respiratory issues. Also listed on the certificate, Jobs passed away at his home in Palo Alto at 3 p.m. on October 5 and no autopsy was performed on… Read More

The iconic glass cube of the 5th Avenue Apple store stands hidden beneath planks of white-painted plywood. The panels of glass that make up the cube are being replaced with larger, “seamless” panes – a renovation project that costs approximately $6 million, just shy of the $7 million Apple originally spent on the structure. It's a high price to pay to make the store look only slightly different, noticeable only to the expertly trained… Read More

A new study from the University of Maryland says that Facebook’s “app economy” is responsible for some 182,000 US jobs and has put somewhere between $12.19 billion and $15.71 billion in wages and benefits into our economy this past year. “Our findings confirm that social media platforms have created a thriving new industry. As Facebook and other platforms grow, we will continue to see job growth and the ripple effects of these advances in the US… Read More

AT&T desperately wants this T-Mobile merger to go through. Yesterday, the wireless carrier said it would bring 5,000 jobs it outsourced back to the U.S. if regulators let its $39 billion deal go through. Most of these jobs are low-paying wireless call center positions. The company also promised not to cut any more wireless call center positions, but only if the deal goes through. Assuming a call center employee makes about $15 an hour and… Read More

Satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp. has announced it will close 200 Blockbuster stores in the US, leaving the number operating at about 1,500. Dish Network took over the failing movie rental company in April, bidding $320 million (finally paying in the region of $230 million) for it in a bankruptcy auction. Speaking to The Wrap on Thursday, Dish Network spokesman Marc Lumpkin said that more than 15,000 people working at Blockbuster stores… Read More

Nearly one in four professionals want to work at Google, according to a newly released study from consulting firm Universum, which helps companies make themselves more attractive to potential employees. When asked to pick their ideal employers out of a list of 150 companies, 24.79 percent of respondents chose Google as their top pick. Apple came in second, with 13.45 percent. The survey questioned 10,306 young professionals (college graduates… Read More

The tech world runs on rumors. But this is one we'd rather not have to report: Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs, who is on indefinite medical leave from his company due to undisclosed health complications, has a mere six weeks to live, according to the National Enquirer. That's right, the National Enquirer — not exactly the most reputable publication in the world. So, needless to say, this particular “revelation” should… Read More

LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals, has released a list of the most trite, cliched, and overused buzzwords that litter resumes and professional profiles. To compile the list, LinkedIn looked at profiles from its more than 85 million members from a dozen countries including the U.S. It turns out that some countries' professionals prefer the same cliches. Folks in the U.S., Canada, and Australia like to describe… Read More

Famously secretive Apple hasn't said anything about when it might be looking to bring a new iPhone to market, but if the company were to make such an announcement, it's safe to say it would come from the lips of the company's famous CEO Steve Jobs. And Apple has just announced when Jobs will next be taking the stage: at the keynote of this year's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), at 10 AM on June 7. Given that… Read More

Searching for a job in 2010? Be glad, says editor Scott Steinberg. “Courtesy of the Web, social networks and online services, all the tools you need to find full- and part-time work, or start a promising new career, are right there at your fingertips,” he says. As a supplement to our online job hunting guide and rundown of vital career building strategies, we asked him to compile a list of ten job hunting tips that every serious professional… Read More

Need a job, friend? Pull up a chair and join the crowd. Though the economy is slowly – ever… so… slowly – showing signs of stirring from its extended slumber, the unemployment rate in this country currently hovers near the ten percent mark. Needless to say, it hasn't been this high in decades. And with more applicants joining the pool of unemployed every day, and full-time employment still scarce as ever, the million-dollar question is… Read More

The Obama administration has given a green light to the Department of Homeland Security to hire up to 1,000 new cyber experts over the next three years, the first major personnel move to fulfill its vow to bolster security of the nation's computer networks. The announcement follows a wave of cyber attacks on federal agencies, including a July assault that knocked government Web sites off the Internet and earlier intrusions into the… Read More