Articles by Dice Staff
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Zynga Drops U.S. Gambling Games, Jobs at Stake?
Zynga’s bet on real-money gambling turned into a bust this week, with the company announcing it was dropping its plans to pursue it in the U.S. and would continue to evaluate its pilot test in th… -
Perks Don't Always Correlate With Employee Retention
Despite the conventional wisdom, free food and other lavish perks don’t always equal employee retention. In fact, workers at several tech giants are likely to bolt after just a year on the job. A… -
Layoffs at Spirit AeroSystems
Spirit AeroSystems announced Thursday it is laying off approximately 360 salaried support and management personnel. The affected employees, according to Reuters, reportedly includes engineers and… -
Tech Jobs: Athenahealth, GoDaddy, Tripobox
Our weekly snapshot of tech jobs: Who’s hiring and who’s firing across the IT landscape. HIRING Cloud-based health information technology company athenahealth is planning to hire 1,900 new employ… -
In Seattle, It's All About Software Development
What's New This Quarter T.J. Doton, Managing Director of recruiting firm Randstad Technologies in Seattle/Bellevue, has some good news: Overall unemployment in the region has hit its lowest level… -
Is a CS Master's Worth Anything to Programmers?
Some argue that a master’s degree is “the new bachelor’s.” That is, so many people have bachelor’s degrees that you need a master’s to stand out. There is some truth to that. But is a master’s de… -
A Linux Pro Shares His Job Search Secrets
George is a long-time Linux professional. He's a big fan of Red Hat and was happy to share a few of his system admin job search secrets for the benefit of Dice readers. Now in his mid-fifties, Ge… -
SwiftStack Launches OpenStack-Based Cloud Storage
Dropbox, Google Drive and other consumer-oriented online storage services may be big with BYOD-toting end users. But they're no such hit with datacenter administrators and security managers. Not… -
Bristol-Myers Will Hire for IT in Tampa
Bristol-Myers Squibb is shifting 200 positions from its facility in Plainsboro, N.J., to a new, consolidated internal services center in Tampa. An undetermined number of the jobs are in IT, and t…