News: Business & Finance

• IT takes biggest job-cut hit in the back office
  Galen Gruman
  Nov 17 2009

  Large, global companies have eliminated 300,000 IT jobs in 2009, according to the consultancy Hackett Group. Back-office jobs in general fell 630,000 -- three times the average annual job loss from ...

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• Daily Endeavor helps you figure out what kind of job to search for
  Anthony Ha
  Nov 17 2009

  There are tons of job listing sites out there, but few that try to answer a far more important question, says Matthew Mahoney, founder of a new site called Daily Endeavor: What kind of job should I ...

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• After VC cash? Show ‘em what you’ve learned
  Steve Blank
  Nov 17 2009

  (Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This column originally appeared on his blog.) I joined the board of Cafepress.com when it was a ...

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• China defends Internet censorship after Obama lauds openness
  Owen Fletcher
  Nov 17 2009

  China on Tuesday defended its control of information on the Internet that it deems sensitive or harmful, one day after U.S. President Barack Obama told students in Shanghai that information should ...

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• Mobile-friendly versions of Adobe Flash and AIR available now, without mobile (yet)
  Anthony Ha
  Nov 17 2009

  Adobe is releasing new beta test versions of its Flash and AIR technologies today. Those new versions don’t just include much-requested features, Adobe says — they also represent a big ...

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• Google Sites now offers templates for company web sites
  Anthony Ha
  Nov 17 2009

  Google is about to make it easier for businesses to get started with Google Sites, its tool for internal collaboration sites and public websites, by offering templates for creating starter ...

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• Updated: RockYou raises $50 million for in-game advertising, growth in Asia
  Kim-Mai Cutler
  Nov 16 2009

  RockYou , one of the largest developers and ad networks built around Facebook’s platform, just raised $50 million in venture funding from Softbank. That brings RockYou’s total funding to ...

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• Multimedia messaging comes to Twitter in the U.K. thanks to Orange
  Kim-Mai Cutler
  Nov 16 2009

  Is this the beginning of the end for photo-sharing services TwitPic and YFrog? U.K. Twitter users can now send multimedia messages and photos directly to Twitter with help from mobile operator ...

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• Motorola probably sold 250,000 Droids in first week, Flurry says
  Kim-Mai Cutler
  Nov 16 2009

  Motorola probably sold 250,000 Droids in the first week, making it the Android platform’s first legitimate challenger to the iPhone, according to analytics firm Flurry. Those figures are more ...

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• Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has lymphoma
  Robert McMillan
  Nov 16 2009

  Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has been diagnosed with lymphoma. The 56-year-old Allen was diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma earlier this month, according to a letter sent by his sister, ...

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