Articles by Nick Kolakowski
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Finding Silicon Valley's Heart of Entrepreneurship
Over the past several decades, Silicon Valley has become synonymous with entrepreneurship. But not all entrepreneurs are created equal: As suggested by a new study in Science magazine, those star… -
Tesla Poaching Apple's Top Talent
Apple employees are getting poached… but the chief culprit isn’t Google, or another smartphone maker like Samsung. According to a new Bloomberg report, Tesla has hired more than 150 former Apple… -
Twitter CEO Pledges to Curb Trolling
In an internal memo leaked to The Verge, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo took responsibility for the social platform’s rampant problem with trolls and cyberbullying. Check out the latest social network-… -
The Future's Biggest Programming Languages
Ask your average developer to name the most popular programming languages, and they’ll likely rattle off a list that includes JavaScript, PHP, C#, Python, Objective-C, and a handful of others—all… -
JavaScript Tops Popular Languages, As Swift Rises
Developers assume that Swift, Apple’s newish programming language for iOS and Mac OS X apps, will become extremely popular over the next few years. According to new data from RedMonk, a tech-indu… -
Will Google Become Uber's Next Big Rival?
Will Google become Uber’s next big competitor? That’s what some tech pundits and bloggers are theorizing after a Bloomberg report that suggested Google is prepping its own Uber-style ride-hailing… -
Google Paying Out Grants to Bug-Hunters
For security researchers who specialize in hunting down bugs, Google just made the profession a tad more lucrative. Over the past five years, Google has paid out more than $4 million to roughly 2… -
The Rise of the Robot Journalists
In mid-2014, Elon University and the Pew Internet Project released a survey of tech experts, who suggested pretty much en masse that robots will eventually take over many of the jobs currently pe… -
Amazon WorkMail Seeks Business Email Crown
As if it didn’t have enough going on already, Amazon has decided to plunge into the corporate-email game. Amazon’s cloud-based WorkMail boasts all the features that corporate email users expect,… -
Should Employers Use Hackathons to Find Tech Pros?
Pop quiz: What’s the best way for employers to find suitable tech pros? A.) Post a job, sort through resumes, and interview candidates. B.) Host a hackathon, and interview those individuals who d…