Not all the jobs news is bad. There are some good developments for techies looking for a job in the financial sector, and the financial reform bill gets the credit.
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Tags: Dice.com, Dodd-Frank Act, employment, financial reform bill, jobs, technology
The persistent question about technology is whether all these electronics make our lives better or just make more for us to do. For stressed out workers, the question seems to have been answered.
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Tags: InterCall, stress, technology
The price of technology hardware bearing a stamp “Made in China” could start inching up soon as a movement among Chinese workers for better pay and working conditions begins to spread across the country.
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Tags: China, Foxconn, outsourcing, pay, suicide, technology, workers
The bounce back from the long, ugly recession seems to be going particularly well for some tech companies. First, Apple’s sales and stock took off, now another tech giant’s posting near-record revenues.
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Tags: Cisco, earnings, recession, technology
The red flag went up to companies in recent years that tech-tethered employees could demand compensation for their off-site work — and this could rack up big overtime bills for many unsuspecting companies.
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Tags: BalckBerry, employee, iPads, iPhones, overtime, technology
How valuable is your “brand?” Well, the top 100 of them saw their value increase 4% last year while the global economy took a nose dive. And leading the top 100 were four tech firms.
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Tags: branding, BrandZ, Millward Brown Optimor, technology, top brands
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In its glory days, nobody ever thought eBay would hit a slump — especially not in a recession when everybody needs a good deal or wants to unload stuff and raise cash. But eBay did, slump that is, in recent months. And with profits sinking and its market share shrinking, the company’s recasting its online presence: It’s going green.
Tags: Ebay, green, Greenpeace, marketing, technology
American consumers aren’t buying fewer consumer gadgets and technology items, but they are spending less on tech. That’s the word from NPD group, an organization that keeps track of such things.
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Tags: consumer, electronics, Gadgets, NPD Group, spending, technology
One of the biggest hassles of travel has to be keeping track of those pesky hotel key cards and then trying to remember which way to fit the darned things in the wide variety of door locks. But that may soon change.
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Tags: applications, hotel, key card, marketing, Openways, replace, technology
Dell has decided to throw its hat back into the handheld device arena.
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Tags: Blackberry, iphone, technology
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