Articles by Dice Staff
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Recruiters and Job Seekers Change their Strategies
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFeT5GpRyrg&w=560&h=349] There’s no doubt that the war to get great talent and to be hired as great talent is extremely difficult. Every company I talk to… -
Y Combinator's Taking Applications for Startup Money
Want $11,000 to help kickstart your brilliant startup idea? Here you go. While it may not be quite that easy, Y Combinator, a scrappy and successful venture capital group that some call “open-sou… -
Hand-Cranked Vending Machine is Disaster Ready
Japan is a country that has learned a great deal about post-disaster living. It is also a country that knows a great deal about vending machines, with one vending machine for 27 people. These ven… -
Hacker Zac Bowling Shares His Hackathon Secrets
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOG5muIJBGg&w=560&h=349] For Zac Bowling, developer at Seatme, Hackathons are his sport. At the App Hackathon, I caught up with Bowling at the beginning an… -
Google's Whittaker On How to Annoy Your Past Employer
Ex-Googler James Whittaker posted a longish explanation of why he left the company on his blog, lamenting what he sees as Google's change from a tech company to an advertising business. Google, h… -
PayPal's Mobile Payment Service is Here
PayPal soft-launched a new service on Thursday, PayPal Here, which enables merchants to accept credit card payments on their card reader equipped mobile devices. The service, available with selec… -
Google Gambles Big Bucks on Milk's Kevin Rose
Digg founder Kevin Rose will start work Monday at Google after the search giant acquired the entire product team of his latest venture, Milk. TechCrunch says they'll work on social media products… -
Britannica Now Only Online
Encyclopedia Britannica, as bound tomes of knowledge, have now gone the way of the DoDo bird. After 244 years of printing editions, Encyclopedia Britannica decided to cancel the print version and… -
AOL's IM Cuts May Be About Performance, Not Money
AOL has sent pink slips to 40 employees in its Instant Messenger unit at the company’s Silicon Valley office, which has been "eviscerated and now only consists of support staff," according to the… -
Four Promising Areas Where You Can Look For a Job
The number of tech jobs is growing in areas besides places like California's Bay Area, New York and Seattle. A new report from Dice found increasing opportunities in places like Raleigh, Missouri…