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LinkedIn Launches Set of HR Tools
By Chris Crum · February 2, 2009 · 5

LinkedIn has introduced a new set of tools for HR professionals called LinkedIn Talent Advantage. The release reflects LinkedIn’s mentality that the best job candidates aren’t always actively seeking new jobs, although job posting responses on LinkedIn have doubled over the last six months.

MySpace Parent Company Laying Off 100 Jobs
By Danny Brown · January 28, 2009

myspacelogo In a move that won’t surprise as many people as it would have this time last year, Fox Interactive Media has announced it will be cutting its workforce by as many as 100 jobs. Fox is the parent company of social network site MySpace as well as Photobucket and various mobile sites.

Job Search Web Sites See Big Growth
By Mike Sachoff · January 26, 2009 · 3

Job search was the fastest growing online category in the U.S. in 2008, according to comScore.

The job search category saw the number of visitors grow 51 percent to 18.8 million visitors. The final months of the year usually see a slow down in job searching activity because of the holidays, but were instead some of the most heavily trafficked months of 2008.

Employees Overwhelmingly Confident About Layoffs
By Chris Crum · January 7, 2009 · 1

Employees in the U.S. seem to overwhelmingly share a "it won’t happen to me" attitude when it comes to losing jobs. Glassdoor.com has released results from a survey, which found that 4 out of 5 employees have no concerns about being laid off in the next six months.

GlassDoor breaks it down into two categories – companies that have reported upcoming layoffs, and companies that have not:

Election To Impact Indian Outsourcing?
By Chris Crum · November 5, 2008 · 8

Reports have been surfacing since last night’s election that while overall, India seems to have embraced the election of Barack Obama as the President of the United States, there have been some worries among the country’s people due to Obama’s position on outsourcing.

Online Job Demand Rising Again
By Chris Crum · September 4, 2008 · 7

Monster.com The number of online jobs went up according to the Monster U.S. Online Jobs Index. The increase marked the end of a three-month decline, indicating that employers are preparing for the fall hiring season. In August, online job availability went up in 14 of the Index’s 20 industry categories and in 13 of the 23 occupational categories measured. Still, the index is 14% lower than it was a year ago.

Google’s 300 DoubleClick Layoffs
By Philipp Lenssen · April 3, 2008

Online Job Ads Becoming More Scarce
By Doug Caverly · April 1, 2008 · 1

Alaska, Nevada, and Delaware are in great shape. The news isn’t good for the U.S. as a whole, though, as The Conference Board has recorded an annual decline in online advertised job vacancies.

(Lack Of) Growth In Online Job Ads Ominous
By Doug Caverly · March 4, 2008

More job ads were posted online this February than last, and if the stats stopped there, we’d say they made for good news. The amount of growth only equaled three percent, however, which isn’t at all encouraging.

In-House SEM Salaries: Quite a Range
By Navneet Kaushal · January 11, 2008

Earlier today we discussed some mind boggling statistics about search marketing and its efficacy, see: PPC Ads Are Ignored 88.5% Of The Time!. Another study, this time about search marketers by SEMPO, explores the earning potentials of SEMs.

The salaries actually have a surprising range, with the lowest ones bordering around minimum wages $60/year to the highest ones being around $70,000 a year.

Blogpile On Scoble: He’s Leaving PodTech
By WebProNews Staff · December 12, 2007

After just a year and a half with PodTech.net, reports are surfacing that celebrity A-list blogger and author of Naked Conversations Robert Scoble is leaving the company next month. As a result, he’s really been taking his lumps from other A-listers.

Scoble’s “Fake Steve Jobs” Story
By Robert Scoble · December 3, 2007

Here’s my Fake Steve Jobs story (Fake Steve Jobs is a blog that pretends it’s written by Apple CEO/co-founder Steve Jobs. It got popular this year and recently it was revealed that a Forbes Magazine employee is its author).

Last week I was getting an iced latte at the new Peets in Half Moon Bay. I was wearing a Blogger T-shirt. Old school. There a lady came up to me and asked “is that the Fake Steve Jobs T-shirt?”

Apple Freed From Option Backdating Lawsuit
By WebProNews Staff · November 15, 2007

Apple received an early holiday present as its request for dismissal of a suit against CEO Steve Jobs and other company executives earned a California judge’s approval.

Gates, Jobs, Dell Named Top IT Personalities
By Doug Caverly · November 9, 2007 · 1

Another “tops in tech” list has come out, and most of the names you’d expect to see are on it. What’s surprising, though, is that no one closely connected to Google made the top three; instead, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Michael Dell were voted the most influential IT personalities.

Online Advertised Jobs Decrease
By Mike Sachoff · October 31, 2007

In October there were 4,161,700 online job vacancies advertised, a decrease of 108,300 or -2.5 percent from September, according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted Online Data Series out today.

Best Web Publicity? Go the Content Route
By Andrew Wee · October 30, 2007

Launching a new product? A new book? Or a new product? If it’s mass consumer-related, you might want to take a leaf out of FakeSteve (Jobs) book, Options.

Fake Steve Jobs (AKA Forbes senior editor Dan Lyons) has been penning the Fake Steve satirical blog of the Apple co-founder to the bemusement of folks in the Valley. With potrayals of Microsoft boss Bill Gates as “Beastmaster Bill” (both Bill and the real Steve are fans of the blog), it’s garnered nothing less than a rabid following.

Fake Steve Jobs: Have You Heard Of oPtion$?
By WebProNews Staff · October 29, 2007

The Secret Life of Steve Jobs endured the bitter challenge of the SEC probing Apple for impropriety, while negative energy spilled around the faux CEO. How’s a genius supposed to instill the world with a childlike sense of wonder under these conditions?

Bernstein Bearish, Says YHOO Should Break Up
By WebProNews Staff · October 5, 2007

Sometimes the whole of something isn’t worth the sum of its parts. An analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein thinks someone needs to do to Yahoo what Bruce Lee used to do to his on-screen foes and bust it into pieces.

Tim Armstrong Sees Toronto Agency Growth
By Andrew Goodman · October 3, 2007

Google’s North American president of advertising, Tim Armstrong, is quoted in a Globe and Mail article today as seeing a proliferation of ad agency jobs as a result of Google’s dominance of the online ad market. Armstrong is in town to "meet with his Canadian team," according to the article.

Steve Jobs Inspires Yahoo
By Doug Caverly · October 1, 2007

It’s an exciting, strange, and, for Yahoo’s sake, hopefully encouraging piece of news: Steve Jobs gave the search engine company’s executives a pep talk.

Steve Job’s iPhone Price Drop
By Ross Dunn · September 7, 2007

On Wednesday the news lines were afire as Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs announced a $200 price slash on the iPhone. Ever since the announcement there has been rampant speculation on Job’s move…

Why, why, why?