The Associated Press is back on Google News.
There hasn’t been an Associated Press article on Google News since last December. Some speculated that that the AP was haggling for a higher price to run articles on the service.
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Google launches a way to wrangle Twitter, MySpace and Facebook to tame information overload by leveraging Gmail, where so many people already go daily.
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When I lost my job in June of 2009, I wasn’t very concerned. I knew the labor market was poor, and that it might take me awhile to find another position.
Still, I had a solid network of contacts within my industry (and those contacts had numerous contacts as well), and a great track record at the company I’d worked for during most of the previous nine years. (That company, Lehman Brothers, was acquired by Barclays Capital. I was laid off six months after the acquisition, soon after the majority of work my groups preformed was outsourced.)
Within two months after being laid off, it became clear that my contacts, and their contacts, were not hiring. “We’re going to be flat or reducing headcount until 1Q10. Great resume … check back with me then,” became a consistent refrain. ‘Fine,’ I thought, ‘I have a solid operations and management background, so it’s time to explore another industry I’m passionate about. If I can just land interviews, explaining the value of my skill set and experience shouldn’t be too difficult.’ And perhaps that would be the case. But with the advent of web-based resume and cover letter submissions, getting in front of a hiring manager, or even an HR screen, has proven difficult.
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On again, off again rumors about a bailout of Greece’s debt crisis dominated global markets on Tuesday.Global stocks rallied overnight and the Dow jumped Tuesday morning on reports European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet had changed his travel
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Disney is getting involved in the White House’s new “Let’s Move” campaign. Their goal: Cure the childhood obesity epidemic within a generation.
For their part, Disney is creating a series of public service announcements which will feature Disney characters encouraging kids to get active and eat healthy.
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Mark Peter Davis is a New York City VC and member of the DFJ Gotham Ventures team. This post originally appeared on his blog, and it is republished here with permission.
Tech-lite companies often rely on data to create value and barriers as they scale. Being able to structurally think about what data your company is and is not leveraging may enable you to
- deliver more value and create additional barriers from the data that you are currently mining or
- identify other types of data that you can and should be capturing. While no framework is without exception, I have attempted to create a structure that should help you take inventory of your data.
The diagram below illustrates how I segment the world of data into key types: identity, descriptive, subjective, activity, relationship.
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Fewer lenders are providing expensive, short-term cash to taxpayers anticipating refunds from the IRS this year. Consumer advocates say that’s a good thing.
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14.8 million Americans are currently out of work and looking for a job, according to a report released today by the Bureaus of Labor Statistics.
Even if you do have a job, wages have not increased substantially over the last ten years, with one exc
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Brooklyn Decker is splayed across Sports Illustrated‘ 2010 Swimsuit Edition this year.
The 22-year-old model has been in the magazine in 2006. But this is her first cover shoot.
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Google has announced its latest attempt to break into social, Google Buzz. Here’s the company’s official demo.
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Google’s lame Twitter/Facebook rival, Google Buzz, also includes a feature aimed at disrupting mobile “check-in” apps like Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and others.
The irony: Google bought, owned, neglected, and shut down the predecessor to Foursquare, called Dodgeball. Now that “checking in” is en vogue, Google is bringing the feature back.
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Google just took the wraps off its big social effort, called “Google Buzz.”
It lives inside Gmail, and it’s a ‘Google approach to sharing.’
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Stories about the sex lives of politicians are just about the hottest copy in the business. So hot, that the hottest story at the New York Times is the rumor of a story about the sex life of David Paterson, New York’s governor.
We are all waiting for the great bombshell.
Although it may be that we don’t even need an actual story, that having had so many stories about politicians’ sex lives, we can all fill in the blanks.
There are already reports that the governor will resign, and already denials from the governor about the imminence of his resignation, and about the details—he hasn’t had extra-marital sex, he says, since the last time he admitted to having extra-marital sex. Even though the story does not exist, the Times is being censured for it. The story is “psychological warfare,” according to Rick Lazio, a potential Paterson opponent (i.e., he gets to call attention to the story by distancing himself from it). This drubbing is not dissimilar to what happened after the Times published its investigation of John McCain’s sex life.
Keep reading at Newser–>
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