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Alberto Conrad

Alberto Conrad

Alberto Conrad

An Open Challenge to Google on SEO Headlines - Workforce Magazine

Whatever Works An Open Challenge to Google on SEO Headlines Please note this headline is not a good SEO headline, but I’m OK with that. And did I mention The Career Hackers? June 16, 2016 Sometimes it’s good to challenge your workforce; it promotes innovation. A few weeks ago, I read a story on CNN…

Jun 16, 2016

Hiring Tech Talent Requires Innovative Interviewing

SEATTLE—Tech companies are using unconventional interviewing methods to find the strongest candidates, said Gayle Laakmann McDowell, founder and CEO of Palo Alto, California-based CareerCup.com, a company that prepares candidates for technical interviews, at the 2016 Talent42 Tech Recruiting…

Jun 16, 2016

Russian Hackers Targeted Hillary Clinton Campaign Google Accounts

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally in San Francisco, California on May 26, 2016. (Photo: JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images) Hillary Clinton’s private email server has attracted the attention of foreign hackers and American regulators alike. But now her campaign crew’s…

Jun 16, 2016

When To Walk Away From Your Job: 5 Tips From Olympian Kaylin Richardson

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, over 2 million people are quitting their jobs each month, and that number is only growing. On average millennials will change jobs at least 4 times by the time they are 32, nearly twice as much as the previous generation. Knowing when it’s time to quit is…

Jun 16, 2016

The Convergence Of Advertising & E-Commerce

The conversation around ad blocking continues to grow. In Mary Meeker ’s annual Internet Trends Report, one of the feature slides in the advertising section shared that some 220 million desktop browsers and 430 million mobile users are currently blocking ads. Even when display ads do get seen, many…

Jun 16, 2016

Samsung to acquire cloud services startup Joyent

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: June 15, 2016 11:17 p.m. ET Share Samsung’s 3rd big purchase of a U.S. startup in past 2 years Bloomberg News Samsung sees value in the cloud. By Jonathan Cheng SEOUL — Samsung…

Jun 16, 2016

Two Disneyland Attractions You Won't See In China And Why

Shanghai Disneyland opens today in China after so much anticipation that people lined up for as long as four hours during trial runs over the past month and you need tickets in advance to get in through Saturday. Walt Disney DIS +0.20% expects 50 million visitors a year. Chinese thrill seekers have…

Jun 16, 2016

LinkedIn Acquisition Heralds Opportunities for Recruiters

Microsoft’s blockbuster announcement that it is purchasing LinkedIn foreshadows a huge shift in the human capital and enterprise technology market. Will it lead to enhanced recruiting opportunities for talent professionals or dampen innovation at one of the world’s most popular talent solutions…

Jun 16, 2016

Pinterest acqui-hires team from keyboard app Fleksy

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: June 15, 2016 5:26 p.m. ET Share CEO among those joining Pinterest Bloomberg Pinterest said some of Fleksy’s accessibility components with be open sourced. By Yoree Koh Pinterest…

Jun 16, 2016

Report: Mossack Fonseca Computer Technician Arrested Following Panama Papers Leak

(Photo credit: RODRIGO ARANGUA/AFP/Getty Images) Officials in Geneva have arrested a computer technician who worked for Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian law firm tied to one of the largest whistleblower data leaks in history. The unnamed IT worker at the law firm’s Geneva office allegedly “brought…

Jun 15, 2016

Apple Pay Will Struggle To Get A Payout From Tough China Market

Apple AAPL +0.57% is pushing its payment platform into Asia and Europe after launching it in China earlier. The Silicon Valley icon may need that broader market as it is expected to struggle in China, the obvious prime target country outside the United States. Despite its good name for software and…

Jun 15, 2016

Alibaba projects 48% revenue growth this year

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By and Published: June 14, 2016 9:47 p.m. ET Share Chinese e-commerce giant hopes to silence growth concerns Bloomberg News An employee walks past a sign at an Alibaba operations center in…

Jun 15, 2016

Highlight Flexible Work Options to Attract Candidates

Recruiters should take advantage of the flexible work opportunities at their organizations and use them as part of their recruitment strategy, urged experts at a recent flexible work conference. “A lot of companies have flexible work options, but they don’t necessarily say that in their job…

Jun 15, 2016

The Death of Big Software - How Complexity/Cloud/Cost/Digital Transformation Killed the Code Giants

Who in their right mind would undertake a five-year ERP software implementation project? Five years is a corporate lifetime and those that approve the project are likely to be long gone by the time the project reports its first missed milestones. The failure rate for big software projects is…

Jun 15, 2016

Dropbox now has positive cash flow, CEO says

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: June 14, 2016 5:18 p.m. ET Share Drew Houston says startup is working toward profitability Bloomberg News Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston speaks during the Bloomberg…

Jun 15, 2016

Court Wrestles Over Whether Gawker CEO Can Hide Behind Bankruptcy Shield

By Maria Chutchian Gawker Media’s last-ditch effort to protect itself from a debilitating $140 million judgment using Chapter 11 may be a novel strategy to the media world but pharmaceutical and casino companies alike have recently used it with varying degrees of success. The divisive New York media…

Jun 14, 2016

Locate the Right Talent with Basic Boolean Search Tips

Sourcers and recruiters can net the most meaningful candidate search results across the Internet, and even within their own applicant tracking systems, by learning to write basic Boolean search strings. Using Boolean search logic for talent acquisition—that is, searching for people who have…

Jun 14, 2016

FanDuel, DraftKings said to be discussing merger

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: June 13, 2016 8:09 p.m. ET Share Daily fantasy sports sites have been under fire from lawmakers Getty Images FanDuel’s valuation tops $1 billion. By Sharon Terlep FanDuel Inc. and…

Jun 14, 2016

Apple Reaffirms Commitment To Encryption

Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi discusses the company’s use of encryption in its devices at the 2016 WWDC. Apple announced today it was applying ”differential privacy” research to keep users information private, a move that bolster’s the company’s standing as a…

Jun 14, 2016

Gawker gets $22 million lifeline from Cerberus Capital

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Home Industries Media The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: June 13, 2016 5:47 p.m. ET Share Loan will help pay the bills during bankruptcy Reuters Nick Denton, founder of Gawker. By Patrick Fitzgerald Cerberus Capital Management L.P. has agreed to throw a…

Jun 14, 2016

Why A Merger Of FanDuel And DraftKings Would Not Survive Antitrust Review

(Disclosure: The author consults for a fantasy sports provider that is in current litigation against DraftKings) Earlier today, Bloomberg reported that daily fantasy sports operators FanDuel and DraftKings are engaged in merger talks. While it is certainly possible these companies are talking about…

Jun 13, 2016

Symantec to buy cybersecurity firm Blue Coat in $4.65 billion deal

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By and Published: June 12, 2016 8:13 p.m. ET Share Blue Coat CEO Greg Clark to take over at Symantec Bloomberg News Symantec is a pioneer in antivirus software for PCs. By Robert McMillan Dana…

Jun 13, 2016

7 Trends Changing How Companies Connect With Audiences

The terms “content” and “digital media” can be polarizing. They’re pretty broad and their measures confusing — the electoral college of the marketing world. But like my elastic waistband, the number of these tactics keeps expanding, and in January, I made a New Year’s resolution to keep up. Now,…

Jun 12, 2016

Want to sell your house without a Realtor? Read this first

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For 46-year-old Lorna Basse, a makeup artist in Alexandria, Va., deciding to sell her house on her own — without using a real estate agent — worked out well. But she said that’s only because she was lucky. “Honestly, we didn’t have a clue as to what we were doing, but for us, the stars aligned,” she…

Jun 12, 2016

Silicon Dragon Launches Pitch Contests For China

Just about every startup group has some sort of pitching contest for entrepreneurs to realize their dreams, and now Silicon Dragon has joined in. Starting June 23, as part of the Silicon Dragon NY 2016 annual forum at NASDAQ, young founders will have a chance to pitch their startups and win a trip…

Jun 12, 2016

Apple WWDC starting Monday expected to focus on iOS 10, smarter Siri

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Apple Inc. is expected to launch its latest mobile operating system, reveal updates to three other operating systems, and possibly issue new Watch and Mac hardware when it kicks off its annual developer’s conference later Monday. Chief Executive Tim Cook will launch the weeklong Worldwide Developers…

Jun 11, 2016

Why The Creator Of Roblox Thinks His Gaming Platform Will Top Minecraft

David Baszucki. Roblox CEO David Baszucki, 53, cofounded the San Mateo, CA CA -0.09% -based computer gaming platform in 2006. With 12 million users last month, it lets people create their own virtual immersive experiences, like modeling in a fashion show or making pies at a pizza parlor. Users buy…

Jun 11, 2016

Why Smart Cooking Will Help Reduce Air Pollution And Save Lives

(Photo credit:TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images) Yina Sun, an American student, vividly recalls her trip to Awendo, a town in Kenya. “Every house I visited, there was a mother cooking over a three-stone fire stove with smoke blowing in her face, spreading everywhere. Standing in that same room and…

Jun 11, 2016

Disrupting Charity: How Social Business Can Eradicate Starvation

(Photo credit: Claire Collins / Valid Nutrition) There is an international consensus that malnutrition is the single greatest source of poverty, ill health, and underdevelopment in the world today. While progress has been made in treating starvation, a staggering one in every four children in…

Jun 10, 2016

Google searches for Hillary Clinton yield favorable autocomplete results, report shows

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The autocomplete on Google for Hillary Clinton doesn't suggest "indictment" when "ind" is typed in. Google’s autocomplete function seems to be tilted in favor of Hillary Clinton, a report says, but the company denied that it skews results for any candidate. According to a SourceFed video posted…

Jun 10, 2016

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