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People Moves: Information Transport Solutions, RingCentral, Zumbox
A quick look at some of the movement among IT people this week: As part of its initiative to transition from an owner-operated business model to an executive leadership model, data solutions company Information Transport Solutions separated its CEO position into three distinct roles: CEO, COO and CFO. Steve Meany, previously a manager at Cisco, was hired as CEO. Meanwhile, Quincy Minor, previously Vice President of Operations, transitioned to the COO position and Jeff Drury, who acted as COO and… continue…
NSA Revelations: Has The Planet Gone Mad?
It was intriguing to see the tech community’s response to the NSA information-gathering revelations last week. High drama was the order of the day after The Guardian broke the story of a National Security Agency contractor releasing some strategic, classified PowerPoint slides, then hightailing into the shadows of Hong Kong. Dozens of NSA, spying and civil liberties stories dominated tech media outlet giants like YCombinator, ZDNet and GigaOM. As you’d expect, talk radio was abuzz with speculation and commentary. High-ranking,… continue…
NextGen Seeks Both Techs and Recruiters
NextGen Information Services is a rapidly growing staffing and recruitment firm, 80 percent of whose business is in IT. Founded in 1997, NextGen is headquartered in St. Louis and maintains satellite offices in cities like Chicago, Denver and Atlanta, and does business in 35 states. Certified as both a woman- and minority-owned business, NextGen is is among the fastest growing companies in the St. Louis area. Diversityinc.com ranks it one of the top 100 Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States.… continue…
Symantec Layoffs Could Hit 8 Percent of Workforce
Symantec has begun laying off up to 1,700 employees — 8 percent of its workforce — as it struggles to turn around its lagging business. The downsizing is part of a reorganization the company announced in January. On Friday, a spokeswoman told AllThingsD that the reorganization is part of an effort to make the company’s reporting structure “more efficient.” She continued, “There are several stages to the reorganization process, as we define executive and management layers down to all levels… continue…
Tech Unemployment Numbers Hint at Demand for Women
For the past three consecutive months, the unemployment rate for women in IT has been lower than that of men, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The latest figures, from May, show the women’s tech unemployment rate stood at 3.0 percent compared to 3.6 percent for men. A year earlier, the women’s rate was 6.8 percent compared to 2.3 percent for men. Digging into the Numbers When it comes to computer and math jobs, men outnumber women by a… continue…
This Week’s Most Popular Stories
For your reading pleasure, here are the stories most read by your fellow Dice users this week. Already Know the Interview Solution? Say Something: While some candidates don’t prepare at all for coding / algorithms interviews (eek!), others spend so much time preparing that they already know the answers to problems. “Score!” they think. “Now I’ve nailed the question.” Oh, how very, very misguided that is. Unemployed? Use Your Workforce Investment Board: If you’re looking for a tech job in… continue…
Delving into IBM’s Layoff Numbers
When you don’t know which departments will be hit with a layoff, look at the revenue-light or money-losing divisions. Such is the case with IBM, which disclosed in April that it expected to take a $1 billion restructuring charge during the second quarter. The company began cutting jobs earlier this week, to the tune of 2,286 as of Thursday night, according to Alliance@IBM, a website run by the CWA Local 1701, an IBM employees’ union. Here’s a look at its… continue…
Tech Jobs: Apple, Mimecast, Answers.com and More
Our weekly snapshot of who’s hiring and who’s firing across the IT landscape. Hiring Apple could hire up to 7,400 people at its Cupertino, Calif., campus by 2016, boosting its headcount by 50 percent. This hiring binge comes as the company seeks to expand its facilities with a new, larger campus in Silicon Valley. [Dice News] Google plans to hire 75 people for the Shopping Operations team in its Pittsburgh office. The office is largely comprised of engineers and the… continue…
What Answers.com Wants in New Hires
In the nearly seven years since it was founded, Answers, a St. Louis-based knowledge exchange that operates the Answers.com website, has seen double-digit revenue growth annually, company officials say. Jim Yang, Vice President of Products and Community, attributes the rise in part to rapidly increasing mobile traffic. “We expect to grow throughout 2013 at a sustained rate as we continue to invest in new products and lines of businesses,” he says. In addition to Answers.com, the company operates WikiAnswers, ReferenceAnswers,… continue…
People Moves: Mad Catz Update, Apple, Twitter
A quick look at some of the movement among IT people this week. Mad Catz Interactive, a flight software and video game developer and distributor of third party games and video game products, appointed Karen K. McGinnis as Chief Financial Officer. McGinnis replaces Allyson Evans, who recently announced her resignation. [Mad Catz] Apple hired former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Chief Lisa Jackson as Vice President of Environmental Initiatives. Jackson worked for the EPA on and off for 25 years, and… continue…
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