Crooks and Liars
This could affect the blogosphere as we know it, most specifically news aggregators:A copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit filed last month against The New York Times Co., owner of The Boston Globe and its Boston.com website, is being watched closely by news organizations, Internet researchers, independent bloggers, (Read More)
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The Sun-Times Media Group has struck an alliance with Monster.com on forming a series of online recruitment services and co-branded job sites across the publisher’s 70 newspapers. The deal comes over six months after Chicago-based Sun-Times joined the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Newspaper Consortium, which includes access to Yahoo’s (Read More)
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U.S. jobless claims are at a seven-year high. More than 9 million Americans are now out of work, and unemployment is cutting across all industries. And with a global recession looming, analysts don't expect unemployment rates to dip anytime soon.The result is something HR professionals haven't seen for years: a talent glut. (Read More)
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Despite the fact that social networks and software are significantly changing organizations' marketing and Web strategies, relatively few human resources (HR) organizations have grasped the effect that they have on the employer brand, according to Gartner Inc.It is essential that organizations understand how social software (Read More)
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Advertisers differ in their goals, objectives, and metrics for search. Some merely want to drive traffic to their Web sites; others want to meet specific ROI (define) targets. Still others view their search campaigns as vehicles for building or strengthening their brands. Search brand value has drawn a great deal of attenti (Read More)
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Payday loan providers are finding a safe haven online, even as governments try to crack down on their operations. One lender that has switched to an online-only approach has been rewarded with an upsurge in business. Competitors are closing stores in unfriendly states. (Read More)
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NEW YORK -- Shoppers won't be picking up ornate lamps from the Bombay Co. in the coming year. Or investing with Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns. No flying to Hawaii on Aloha Airlines or buying ultra-cheap tickets on Skybus, either.All those names vanished this past year, victims of the economy, the financial meltdown or ot (Read More)
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As baby boomers reach retirement age, the executive recruiting market will be busy finding qualified candidates for a generation's worth of senior management positions. (Read More)
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"Clinton was the first Web president. Bush is the first digital president," says David Almacy, who served as Bush's Internet director from 2005 to 2007. "Obama is the first online social networking president.". (Read More)
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IT workers who've recently been laid off are lining up at staffing agencies in search of temporary and contract IT work that will provide them with a paycheck as they look for full-time, "permanent" IT jobs. (Read More)
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Chinese enterprises that found themselves falling behind the talent rush in the past should take heart from the global economic slowdown as it presents a golden opportunity for them to recruit qualified and experienced executives and professionals from around the world.Of course, talent doesn't come cheap, human resources e (Read More)
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Even as the drumbeat of layoffs grows around the country, most corporate hiring managers in a new survey say that they're planning neither to increase nor decrease headcounts in 2009.Fourteen percent of employers surveyed by CareerBuilder.com said they plan to increase full-time, permanent employees, while 16 percent see de (Read More)
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Melville, NY - Adecco Group North America, the leader in workforce solutions and recruitment, recently announced that it has been awarded a multiyear recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) contract with the Corporate Executive Board. Adecco's RPO division will provide the Corporate Executive Board with a comprehensive, full- (Read More)
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A study from Boston consultant firm Cone finds that almost 60 percent of Americans interact with companies on a social media website, and one in four interact more than once per week.According to the 2008 Cone Business in Social Media Study, 93 percent of Americans believe a company should have a presence in social media, w (Read More)
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Sometimes, the best rule of thumb for bloggers is to think before taking action. Take J. Son, who produces Naked Boy News, for example. He almost jeopardized the entire jury selection process in the ongoing O.J. Simpson trial. (Read More)
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