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• Outsourcing Firm Ameritas Technologies to Hire 300 in Louisiana

  Ameritas Technologies, a domestic outsourcing firm, is setting up an IT center in downtown Baton Rouge, La., creating about 300 jobs. It's the first of an unspecified number of centers planned fo…
• Open Source Meteor Receives $11.2 Million Investment

  Meteor, a platform that help users build Web apps with JavaScript, has received $11.2 million in series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Matrix Partners. Like GitHub, which Andreessen Horow…
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  How to Make a Stack Ranking System Work for You

  Microsoft’s practice of stack ranking employees is being blamed for everything from a bad work environment to a lack of innovation. But ranking workers from top to bottom according to their perfo…
• EMC, VMware Move To Take Virtualization, Storage to Cloud

  EMC's leadership shuffle involving subsidiary VMware comes as the two companies face a crossroads. What comes next for virtualization, storage and cloud computing? Pat Gelsinger, formerly preside…
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  Women Pioneering Tech Innovation at Disney

  Every woman and non-binary technologist at Disney is essential to bringing our world-class stories and immersive experiences to life. Their unique and diverse perspectives foster our culture of i…

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  Alcatel-Lucent to Cut 5,000 Jobs, R&D Safe

  Alcatel-Lucent is planning to cut 5,500 jobs by the end of next year, with IT professionals tied to its unprofitable services contracts likely at greatest risk. The European telecom-equipment mak…
• Microsoft Entices Developers to Sell Apps in Windows Store

  Microsoft aims to build a Windows 8 app store that would rival what Apple has achieved for iOS and Google for Android. It’s going all out to lure developers by offering incentives and pricing tha…
• Three Upcoming Android Development Contests

  Android development contests are an excellent opportunity to showcase your design and development talents. The path to big winnings will take considerable effort and an eye for good UI design. If…
• CMS Firm Box is a Good Place for New Graduates

  [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL6zGAVQ_IU&w=560&h=349] Box (formerly Box.net) is a cloud content management system. The Los Altos, Calif., company is in a super hot space right now and…
• How Stack Ranking Works in Your Performance Review

  Vanity Fair recently lambasted Microsoft for losing its innovation prowess. The magazine blames the Redmond giant's management style, and takes specific aim at its stack ranking review system. Ev…
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  Developing 'Call of Duty Elite' is as Intense as Playing It

  [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORinBoStTm4&w=560&h=349] Call of Duty gamers are a demanding bunch. Not just because of their passion for the game itself, but because of performance they…
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  Why Training and Retaining Tech Talent Is Key to Keeping Employees Happy

  Remarkably, 42% of employees who have voluntarily left their organization in the past year have reported that their manager or organization could have done something to stop them from leaving, ac…

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