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Tech workers live 40 to a house in high rent San Francisco
Venture Beat - 11 Mar 2017 06:02
(Reuters) – Zander Dejah, 25, pays $1,900 a month rent to live in a downtown San Francisco house with at least 40 other people, many of whom sleep in bunk beds. Dejah is a resident of The Negev, a communal living space...
How To Spot An All-Time Favorite, Irreplaceable Employee
Forbes - 11 Mar 2017 16:35
Technical skills and expertise are valuable, but these attributes define which employees are seen as the favorite employees of all time.
Why Planned Parenthood believes tech companies should be activists
Venture Beat - 11 Mar 2017 16:00
Immigration. Women’s equality. Transgender rights. These are just three of the most recent social issues that have found their way into the spotlight of our political consciousness. They aren’t new to the scene, as p...
Tech industry faces new H-1B visa reality
Venture Beat - 11 Mar 2017 22:10
GUEST: By now, business leaders across the globe are well aware of the recent announcement by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that it will temporarily suspend premium processing for H-1B visas petit...
Six Ways To Stimulate Innovation A La Richard Branson, Warby Parker, Nordstrom, And Adobe
Forbes - 11 Mar 2017 21:50
A classic rookie mistake, when you want to stimulate a culture of innovation, is to think you can start from zero. Better to kick things off with a stimulating innovation prompt, like the following, which I've gathered d...
Consumers Are Willing To Pay More For Products Made By Employee-Owners
Forbes - 11 Mar 2017 21:43
Consumers are willing to pay more for products made by employee-owners on par with organic and fair trade certified brands.
Girls in Tech holds its first global Hacking for Humanity event
Venture Beat - 11 Mar 2017 21:05
Girls in Tech, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that promotes girls and women in technology jobs, kicked off a global series of hackathons with its first event in Melbourne, Australia. Dubbed Hacking for Humanity, the e...
10 Traditional Desk Jobs That Are Going Freelance
Forbes - 11 Mar 2017 21:04
So, just what types of jobs are moving from desks to freelance enterprises? The simple answer is that this is occurring in all career sectors but here are 10 of them.
5 things Silicon Valley needs to know about India's massive smartphone market
Venture Beat - 11 Mar 2017 20:25
GUEST: Every time I return to India to visit colleagues and family, I'm amazed to see how quickly smartphone adoption has overtaken the country. On my visit to Bangalore last month, seemingly every person I passed on the...
5 Alexa skills to try this week
Venture Beat - 11 Mar 2017 19:10
Below is a list of five Alexa skills worth trying selected from trending, customer favorites, and top enabled skills in the Alexa Skills Marketplace. To enable any of the skills below you can search for them in your Alex...
PlayStation remains in the lead for TV ad spending despite skipping the Super Bowl
Venture Beat - 11 Mar 2017 18:02
GUEST: Sony doesn’t need the Super Bowl. GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention analytics from 10 million smart TV screens, to bring you a monthly report on how ga...
The tech industry needs more designers -- are hybrid designer-developers the answer?
Venture Beat - 11 Mar 2017 17:30
The growing need for tech designers is driving the industry to seek out multi-disciplinary talent and leading to more inclusive hiring practices. Highlighting this trend, John Maeda, former design partner at Kleiner Perk...
Why Smart People Make Stupid Decisions
Forbes - 11 Mar 2017 16:00
We've all been there. We make what we think is a rational decision and seconds, minutes or days later we wonder "What was I thinking?!". Discover how to stop making stupid decisions and start making smart ones by underst...
CloudGate Studio lets you kick a dinosaur in VR with HTC's Vive Tracker
Venture Beat - 11 Mar 2017 15:25
I must apologize in advance to the society for the prevention of cruelty to dinosaurs. In a recent demo of CloudGate Studio‘s Island 459 virtual reality game, I kicked a little dinosaur known as a Compsognathus, which ...
Vive Tracker could lead to an ecosystem of 'hundreds' of accessories
Venture Beat - 11 Mar 2017 13:03These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week
Venture Beat - 11 Mar 2017 09:44
This week, Tech.eu tracked 11 technology M&A transactions and 65 tech funding deals totaling €416 million (about $444 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel. Here's an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items...
Facebook adds speech recognition to Oculus Rift, Gear VR
Venture Beat - 11 Mar 2017 09:00
Facebook today announced the launch of a voice search feature for its Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) headset and Samsung’s Gear VR headset. It’s available now in beta for people who use English as their primary lan...
'Smart' vibrator company settles $3.75 million privacy lawsuit
Venture Beat - 11 Mar 2017 07:33
Think twice about connecting those sex toys to the Internet: A vibrator company has agreed to pay up to $10,000 to U.S. customers who used a smartphone app that relayed their data to the firm’s server. In a settlement ...
Yet Another Intra-Member Dispute in ZUPT
Forbes - 11 Mar 2017 07:24
The Texas Court of Appeals affirms a turnover order against a debtor-member of an LLC where the LLC itself held the judgment against the debtor member, holding that so-called charging order exclusivity doesn't make any s...
How Midnight Doughnut Deliveries Caused A Sales Boom At Ann Arbor's Washtenaw Dairy
Forbes - 11 Mar 2017 07:04
In Ann Arbor, you can now get doughnuts and milk delivered at midnight. The deal is a home run for the 83-year-old Washtenaw Dairy.
Microsoft Garage's Project Lively is an Office add-in that automatically refreshes files
Venture Beat - 11 Mar 2017 04:48
Microsoft this week unveiled Project Lively, an Office add-in that can automatically refresh files when other people update them. It’s the latest thing to come out of Microsoft Garage, an operation that develops experi...
A Peek At Who Might Be The Next South Korean President
Forbes - 11 Mar 2017 04:00
At least four liberal, reform-minded or anti-establishment people are expected to run for president in one of South Korea's toughest times: the former president has been fired, North Korea is testing missiles and China i...