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China's increased hiring bucks regional trend
News Unlike China's optimism, hiring expectations have fallen in three Asian economies--but salaries for new hires remain the same, survey finds.
Tags: Career, Recruiting, Benefits, Hong Kong, Hire, Singapore, Japan, Environment, Salary, Human Resources
Govt support key to mushrooming startups
News Countries eyeing a flourishing startup landscape should invest generously and court foreign investors, Israeli venture capitalist tells Singapore audience.
Tags: Venture capital, Business, Israeli Government, Start-up, Information Technology, Information And Communication Technology, Singapore, Government, Israel, founder
China SaaS growth to exceed 'traditional IT'
News Country's software-as-a-service market will grow 56 percent next year, exceeding IT sector that includes on-premise software, says report.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Security, software, Information Technology, CRM, Asia-Pacific, On-demand, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), security application, China
InfoPrint Solutions sets up AP base in S'pore
News A joint venture between IBM and Ricoh, the maker of printers and related software services says it will grow headcount in the region by 30 percent by year's end.
Tags: Peripherals, Recruiting, Business applications, Services, Region, India, Asia-Pacific, Hire, Singapore, Associated Press
President of Google's Greater China leaving Google
News In 2005, Kai-Fu Lee decamped from Microsoft to take over Google's China operations, sparking a legal battle between the companies. Now he's starting his own venture.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Kai-Fu Lee, Microsoft Corp., speech recognition, Wall Street Journal, Silicon Graphics Inc., leadership team, China, Redmond
Five reasons to hire open source developers
Techguide Afraid an open source developer will be a liability to your organization? TechRepublic's Jack Wallen offers some reasons to think otherwise.
Tags: Open source, Protocols and platforms, Human resources, Trends, Apache Software Foundation, Open-source Developer, Apache Web server, Open-source Community, Microsoft Windows, proprietary software
Asia sees jump in hiring expectations
News Companies in most sectors optimistic about new hires, as HR priorities--especially in IT and telecoms--focus on developing and retaining talent, finds new report.
Tags: Recruiting, Employee communications, IT training, Survey, IT&T, Asia, Information Technology, job, Telecommunications, Hong Kong
Hire security pros based on reasoning and aptitude
Techguide In-house education--not resume bullet points--is the key to having the best possible employees.
Tags: Security Management, HR policies and procedures, Recruiting, Cookie, Bullet Point, Security, Human Resources Inc., job, Training, IP
US on hunt for 1,000 cybersecurity experts
News US Department of Homeland Security has been given the go-ahead to hire the staff in a push to improve the country's response to cyber incidents.
Tags: Data security, PC security, Security, Network security, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Expert, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, network, Internet Attack, Information Security
Facebook hires an open source advocate
News Prominent open standards advocate David Recordon will join Facebook as senior open programs manager.
Tags: Web 2.0, LiveJournal, Facebook, job, founder, blog, open standard, Web 2.0, board
Understanding the big picture sometimes means scaling back
Techguide Easy come, easy go. After winning approval for a new position, Benny Sisko is almost immediately asked to give it up. Believe it or not, the reasoning made sense.
Tags: Leadership techniques, Business Strategies & Functions, Position, Information Technology, revenue, job, Human Resources Inc., Business Strategies & Functions, Consulting, CIO
Not all employees are created equal
Blogs "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." I read that famous line in George Orwell's Anim...
Where have all the bosses gone?
Blogs I've had dreams of opening my own cafe or bistro...cum music store...cum music school. But, I soon gave up that dream wh...
Former Yahoo executive joins AOL
News Brad Garlinghouse's focused strategies lifted Yahoo to No. 1 in e-mail and IM. Now he intends to lead an Internet and mobile communications revival at AOL.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, America Online Inc., e-mail, AOL Instant Messenger, Facebook, IM, Flickr, acquisition, Web 2.0
Slow site? Yahoo open-sources an app for that
News Sure, rivals could profit from Yahoo's release of Traffic Server as open-source software. But overall, Yahoo bets it'll gain more than it loses by giving it away.
Tags: Web sites, Web servers, Yahoo! Inc., Open Source, Google Inc., Apache Software Foundation, Traffic Server, Microsoft Corp., software, Web sites
