Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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The Best Tech Companies for Poaching Top-Tier Talent
Recently, The Information surveyed its readers about the tech companies that produce the strongest recruits (from a technical and product perspective). Google came in first place, followed by Fac… -
Google Wants to Curb Your Smartphone Notch Mania
To notch or not to notch… is that the question? Ever since Apple rolled out the iPhone X, which featured a distinctive notch along the top of the screen (as seen above), smartphone manufacturers… -
Python Gaining Popularity Among Students, Companies: TIOBE
Python continues to creep up the TIOBE Index, which attempts to rank the world’s programming languages by popularity. It was in fifth place a year ago; now it’s in fourth, potentially threatening… -
Apache Hadoop: A Tech Skill That Can Still Prove Lucrative
A few years ago, you couldn’t have a conversation about “Big Data” without someone bringing up Apache Hadoop, the open-source framework that allows firms to run data applications on large hardwar… -
3 Tips for iOS, Android App Developers Targeting Global Markets
Google Play is outpacing Apple’s App Store when it comes to worldwide app downloads, according to new data from App Annie. Google Play downloads increased 20 percent year-over-year, exceeding App… -
Google Is Really Serious About the Enterprise This Time, Right?
James Governor, co-founder of analyst firm RedMonk, published a July 30 column in which he suggested Google is finally serious about seizing enterprise cloud customers. At the now-concluded Googl… -
Will Google's Rumored Smartwatch Pull Developers to Wear OS?
Having issued a branded smartphone line (the generally well-reviewed Pixel), Google is reportedly moving onto the next stage: A Google-branded smartwatch. That “Pixel smartwatch” may arrive this… -
H-1B Visas May Help Tech Firms Innovate. But at What Cost?
Earlier this month, two researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) issued a research paper suggesting that increasing a company’s proportion of H-1B visa-holders translates int… -
Will Blockchain-as-a-Service Become a Mainstream Thing?
You’ve no doubt heard of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Is Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) next? Oracle has released its take o… -
Bing Surfaces Code Snippets, Boosting Usefulness to Developers
Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, is making it easier for developers to discover exactly the code snippet they need for a particular project. When developers type in a specific query such as “cove…