June 2011
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MySpace Acquired for $35 Million
MySpace has been sold to ad network Specific Media for $35 million. Interestingly, Justin Timberlake has also taken an ownership stake in the social network.
Google Unleashes First Wave of Google+ Invites
Google opened up invites to its new social network, Google +, for a few hours last night. Still need an invite? Check out our contest here.
Google Privacy...
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The 19 Most Hated Companies in America
#19 Bank Of America
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Satisfaction rating: 68/100
Customers complain of excessive fees for overdraft and other services and are pursuing lawsuits over illegal charges. The bank is America’s largest mortgage servicer and the slowest to respond to clients, according to Treasury reports. In recent years it has blundered through countless foreclosure horror stories....
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Google Launches Google+ To Battle Facebook
Google has finally unveiled Google+, the highly anticipated social layer being baked into all of its products.
HomeAway Goes Public
HomeAway Inc, one of the best-funded Internet companies to date, is going public at a valuation of $2.2 billion Wednesday.
Biz Stone Leaving Twitter To Work on New Projects
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone will be taking a...
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A New Look at Job Hoppers and Why they Make the...
People in their 20s on average change jobs every 18 months. People in their 30s — at least the ones that continue to do well in their careers — change jobs frequently as well, although at a slower pace than the 20 somethings. So if you think job-hopping is bad, change your thinking. Job hoppers are not quitters. In fact, they make better co-workers and better employees and I bet are generally more...
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Google Now Activating 500,000 Android Devices Per Day
Google is now activating half a million Android devices per day, up 100,000 per day since it last disclosed numbers a month ago, Google Android chief Andy Rubin announced in a tweet.
Google Launches Mysterious Search Portal
Google has launched a mysterious new search portal asking users “What Do You Love?” It returns results from 20 different...
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The 10 Countries That Will Dominate World Trade in...
#10 Hong Kong
Trade in 2050: $8.5 trillion
Percent of world trade: 2.3%
Hong Kong which doesn’t feature in the top 10 in 2010 but is expected to climb to the eighth spot in 2030 with $4.1 trillion in trade, before slipping to tenth place in 2050.
Source: Citigroup
#9 Singapore
Image: AP
Trade in 2050: $8.65 trillion
Percent of world trade: 2.3%
Singapore’s trade is set to...
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12 Insanely Cool Resume That Landed Interviews
Joe Kelso says his resume never failed
“That resume was my secret weapon,” Joe Kelso told us. “Every time I sent that out I got an interview without fail. So if I really wanted an interview somewhere, that’s the one I would use. A lot of times, I got interviews even when I wasn’t an exact match based on my experience.”
Kelso, who created this resume in...
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Angel @DaveMcClure Just Wrote A Check To The...
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LulzSec Shuts Down, Ends Hacking Campaign
LulzSec, the hacker group that has hacked the CIA, U.S. Senate, Nintendo, Sony and others, has announced suddenly that it is disbanding. It appears, however, that many at the organization are flocking to larger hacker group Anonymous.
Facebook Now Second Most Popular Site in UK
Facebook is now the second most popular site in the UK after Google, having...
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FTC To Target Google in Antitrust Investigation
The Federal Trade Commission is preparing to launch the most comprehensive antitrust investigation of Google’s business practices yet, much of it centered on claims that Google manipulates search engine results pages (SERPs) to its advantage, according to a new report.
Twitter To Put Promoted Tweets in Timeline in Next 2 Months
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Square, ATMs, and the Pace of Transformation -... →
Great and informative read form Harvard Business Review.
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The Ten Most Bizarre College Courses
Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame
University of South Carolina, Columbia
$1,200 in-state; $3,150 out-of-state
3 credits
Enrollment: N/A Quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes in the course description doesn’t succeed in making this offering seem legitimate. The course promises to introduce sociology students to an analysis of “selected social issues related to the career of Lady Gaga.” At least the...
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Gunman Takes to Facebook During Standoff
During a 16-hour standoff with SWAT teams Wednesday, a Salt Lake City man holding a woman hostage updated Facebook with status updates and pictures of the incident.
Winklevoss Twins Drop Facebook Case
After years of litigation and multiple appeals, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have decided to take their cash and end their judicial crusade against...
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At #GeekWire event rubbing elbows with smart awesome people who knows what’s up in technology. Loves it!
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Headhunters Reveal 11 Ways To Ruin Your Chances Of...
Holding back information can make you look sneaky.
It’s important to be as honest as possible with your recruiter about your career, preferences and anything else that could affect your job search.
“Job seekers sometimes fail to tell their recruiter when their company, position, or compensation preferences change. Second, job seekers hurt themselves by not telling recruiters about personal ...
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iPhone 5 Rumor Mill Kicks Into High Gear
Rumors about the iPhone 5 are ramping up ahead of its expected September release, with some claiming that the iPhone 5 will have a radical new case design, while others say it will sport an 8-megapixel camera and a faster A5 processor.
Is Hulu for Sale?
Online video service Hulu is considering a potential sale after an unknown bidder — possibly Yahoo...
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Did The Oregon Ducks Just Get Caught Paying...
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It looks like the Oregon Ducks could be the next college football program to suffer the wrath of the NCAA.
The potential violation focuses on a $25,000 payment Oregon made to Will Lyles’ Complete Scouting Services in February 2010.
Schools pay third-party services like Lyles’ for videos and other scouting material all the time.
But $25,000 is an exorbitant price in this business,...
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LulzSec Mastermind Suspect Arrested in England
A 19-year-old suspected to be the mastermind behind the hacker group LulzSec has been arrested in Wickford, Essex in England.
Nokia’s MeeGo-Based N9 Confirmed for 2011
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has confirmed that the company’s first MeeGo-based, “pure touch” device, the Nokia N9, is coming sometime in 2011.
Foursquare Surpasses 10 Million Users
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ICANN Approves New Top-Level Domains
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved the expansion of generic top-level domains, which will allow companies and organizations to apply for branded (such as .coke) and generic (such as .soda) domain extensions.
1.3 Million Accounts Compromised in Sega Cyber Attack
The names, birth dates, email addresses and encrypted...
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The 20 Hardest Corporate Interviews In America
Job interviews are often a nerve-wracking ordeal. But at some places, your suffering is guaranteed.
Glassdoor identified the hardest interview processes out there based on user reviews.
Google, a company known for their interesting interview questions, was just shy of the top twenty. eBay and Amazon interview questions are actually harder.
The hardest interview of all is at consulting company...
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11 Tools To Get Your Startup Off The Ground In No...
We keep hearing about how the cloud and open source have dramatically lowered the cost of launching a company.
But we lose sight of just how easy it has become to start a company online, and sometimes we don’t know what the best tools are for the job.
Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman has a great post where he lists the tools he used to get his company off the ground. We’re using it with...
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How Much Money Should Your Startup Raise
Bill Clark is the CEO of Microventures, a securities broker/dealer that uses crowdfunding to allow investors to invest between $1,000 to $10,000 in startups online. You can follow him on twitter @austinbillc.
Many startups struggle with how much money they should raise. There are a lot of factors that you need to think of, and those factors vary depending on what you’re trying to...
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Rep. Anthony Weiner Resigns Over Twitter Scandal
Rep. Anthony Weiner, who’s been the center of attention over a lewd tweeted photo, announced his resignation Thursday afternoon.
Saudi Women Ready To Defy Driving Ban, Fueled by Social Media
Saudi Arabian women plan to start driving their cars Friday, one month after Manal al-Sherif — a key figure in a social media campaign against a ban on...
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Vancouver Riots 2011: Kissing Couple Identified
We introduced you to the romantic heroes of the Vancouver Riots of 2011, The Kissing Vancouver Couple, yesterday. Now we can put names to the lip-locked faces.
Soon after the Vancouver Canucks lost game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals to the Boston Bruins, rioting broke out. As the violence became more intense, we found numerous pictures on photo-sharing sites such as Twitpic and Yfrog, as...
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RIP – Announcing the Death of the Corporate...
Five years ago someone asked if the adoption of social networks would lead to the demise of job boards. It was a great question, one that forced a number of people to ask: “Why would they? What value were they not delivering? How should they evolve?”
Today there are more job boards than there were five years ago, some of which are attempting to be more social, just as the social networks ...
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10 Simple Tech Tools To Get Your New Business...
Don’t let the fact that the economy is in the toilet distract you from getting your business off the ground. There are effective ways to build serious momentum on a shoestring budget.
Open source software and secondhand hardware will take your dollars farther than you might realize. Wait until your business is reliably generating revenue, then spring for the brand new top-shelf...
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Pandora Goes Public
Pandora, which begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, upped its share price to $16 per share Tuesday, valuing the company at $2.6 billion.
Facebook To Release Photo-Sharing App?
TechCrunch has leaked a screenshot of what it claims is Facebook’s forthcoming photo-sharing app for the iPhone.
Google Launches Voice & Image Search
Google announced a host...
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Turkey Arrests 32 ‘Anonymous’ Suspects
Turkish police have arrested 32 suspected members of hacker group Anonymous following attacks against government websites.
LulzSec: We Hacked the U.S. Senate
Hacker group LulzSec, which recently claimed responsibility for high-profile attacks against Sony and Nintendo, says it attacked the U.S. Senate’s website over the weekend; Martina Bradford, the...
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HOW TO: Land a Job at Google
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Google is having a big hiring year — its biggest ever, in fact.
Paint a Picture, Concisely
Power suggests job seekers — at Google and elsewhere — begin by presenting a picture of what they’ve done in their careers as concisely and precisely as possible. Every word on your resume or profile should count, he says, and job applicants need to...
