Mashable!:
It’s been more than a year since Bill Gates stepped down from day-to-day operations at Microsoft to focus on his philanthropic efforts through the Gates Foundation. In that time, Gates has traveled the world (in the past week alone, he’s been in China, India, and today, New York), strategizing the best use of his enormous (Read More)
VentureBeat:
I spoke recently with Laura Ipsen, the senior vice president and general manager in charge of the Smart Grid for Cisco.The Smart Grid is the more efficient electrical grid that the nation is moving toward, one that relies on more renewable energy and emits less carbon into the atmosphere. Ipsen will be speaking at our Green (Read More)
VentureBeat:
At the Hot Chips chip design conference at Stanford University, chip researchers spelled out some of the toughest computing problems of the future and the solutions to deal with them. Hearing these pioneers and visionaries talk was both inspiring and disturbing. They talked alternately about running into technological brick (Read More)
TechCrunch:
It’s happening: Lou Dobbs’ dream come true and Silicon Valley’s worst nightmare. We’re already seeing the reverse brain drain as smart immigrants take their US educations and experience building companies and creating technology back to their home countries. But now, xenophobia and the lack of any sensible H-1B visa policy (Read More)
VentureBeat:
The Australian Parliament has voted down ambitious legislation that would have reduced greenhouse gases 5 to 25 percent in the next decade by forcing the nation’s top 1,000 polluters to buy and trade emissions permits.The plan was defeated by a pretty wide margin — 42 to 30 — with the Greens Party lining up in favor and the (Read More)
Woot! - One Day, One Deal:
Don't believe the disinformation doublespeak about why Google CEO Eric Schmidt resigned from the Apple Board of Directors this morning. For the story the Applo-Googlo-controlled media doesn't want you to hear, check out the following straight-ish dope leaked by our sources on "the inside". (What those sources are inside of, (Read More)
VentureBeat:
America’s innovation engine is out of gas. Much has been written about the problem, but no one has addressed the major missing piece: the role of the corporation.American corporations have been slashing internal long-term research and development spending for decades, and, more recently, investments in venture capital-backe (Read More)
BBC:
Remember when Facebook was the scrappy kid on the social networking block, with its teenage boss (ok, he's now old enough to order alcohol in most states), its devil-may-care attitude to money, and its apparently casual approach to grown-up issues like privacy and unsuitable content? Just a year or so back, it was MySpace w (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Ever since I’ve been in Silicon Valley, I’ve heard mass anxiety about the state of higher education, particularly when it comes to training the next generation of tech thinkers, innovators and worker bees. But for all those speeches and pledges to change things, the situation only seems to be getting worse.According to a ne (Read More)
TechCrunch:
MySpace is laying off 300 of its 450 non-U.S. employees, it announced this morning. Just one person in three gets to keep his or her job.The company will not confirm whether Managing Director Travis Katz is still with the company (we reported earlier this evening that he has left the company).Crunch Network: CrunchBoard be (Read More)
Mashable!:
TwitterTwitter reviews updates are used to communicate everything from birthday wishes to political opinions. But there are some special, shining cases where the status update has been used to do some extraordinary things, from marriage proposals to breaking news, and much more.The following are 10 of the most extraordinar (Read More)
Mashable!:
Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog.These days, the job search is happening 24/7, and it’s important to arm yourself with tools that can help provide you with an advantage. You can create a social med (Read More)
Mashable!:
Despite the current recession, there are plenty of companies in a variety of fields looking for qualified employees. Here are over 100 sites for job listings, resume reviews, networking and more. Whether you’re in the tech world, a teacher, translator; in the United States or abroad, these sites will help you launch a (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Job search engine Simply Hired is expanding its operations into Canada, UK, Australia and India. The venture-backed startup was once an acquisition target for Google, and was recently called outfor showing enormous jumps in traffic numbers that may have had something to do with shady tactics.Simply Hired has always made it (Read More)