Articles by Dice Staff
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Cadence Design Systems to Layoff in January
Cadence Design Systems is gearing up to cut 60 workers from its San Jose, Calif., headquarters next month, as the design automation tools maker anticipates ending 2013 with smaller than expected… -
Benefitfocus to Hire 1,200 in South Carolina
Employee benefits software maker Benefitfocus is planning a $60 million expansion in Charleston, S.C., with 1,200 new jobs on tap in the next couple of years. The company, which offers a SaaS por… -
Supercomputers Find Bacterial 'Off' Switch
[caption id="attachment_15343" align="aligncenter" width="478"] Simulation of the molecular 'switch' that tells E. coli to turn itself off.[/caption] The comparatively recent addition of supercom… -
MOOCs Get 'F' in Delivering on Promise
It was two years ago that Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun drew 160,000 students from around the globe to his free online course on artificial intelligence, starting a conversation about the co… -
How Busy Colleagues Spread Their Stress
Those super-busy folks in the office – the ones who never say no to another project, walk fast, arrive late to meetings and seem to spend all their time on their phone and email -- can be a big s… -
Startup Vows to Double Bandwidth With Easy Upgrade
[caption id="attachment_15277" align="aligncenter" width="600"] MagnaCom boosts capacity by packing in data-lugging carrier waves more efficiently.[/caption] A networking startup emerged from ste… -
Cisco to Create 1,700 Jobs in Ontario
Cisco has committed to creating 1,700 jobs in Ontario over the next six years as part of a 10-year deal with the provincial government. The new jobs will focus on research and development. Curren… -
Hour of Code Attracts 16 Million Students
Seven days, 16.4 million students and 539,213,554 lines of code. That's the end result of the Hour of Code organized as part of last week’s Computer Science Education Week. The staggering partici… -
How to Get a Job at Coursera
Coursera, fresh on landing $43 million in funding, will double the size of its workforce to approximately 100 people, all of whom will work at its Mountain View headquarters. About half of the ne… -
Dell Workers Wary of ‘Voluntary Separation'
Michael Dell says running a private company is “a lot more fun” than running a public one. With his $25 billion buyout completed in October, Dell says his company is now focused on the longer ter…