Daily Archives: February 2, 2013

20 Tech Companies That Pay Interns Boatloads Of Money

February 2, 2013
20 Tech Companies That Pay Interns Boatloads Of Money

YouTube If you intern for a high-profile tech company, you can make more money than the average US citizen. Facebook, for example, pays its average intern $6,056 per month. That ends up being a base salary of about $72,000 per year. But there’s another tech company that pays its interns even more than Facebook. Glassdoor, a...

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KRUGMAN: I Missed It, But The Nature Of Inequality Totally Changed In 2000, And Technology May Be To Blame

February 2, 2013

In the first part of our interview with Paul Krugman, we discussed the standard topics of the deficit and the economy. In our second part, we discuss something more offbeat: The role of technology in the debate over inequality. This is a topic that Krugman has been writing a lot about lately, and he...

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Inside Business Insider: More Tech Secrets Revealed

February 2, 2013
Inside Business Insider: More Tech Secrets Revealed

Some of BI’s tech team at the NYSE for the SA 100 party See Also How To Network In New York City On Five Dollars A Day BUSINESS INSIDER SECRETS REVEALED! How This Web Site Uses MongoDB EIC Henry Blodget recently updated and reprised his original Business Insider Full Monty article with a new...

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Windows 7 drops below 70% adoption on Steam, while Windows 8 passes Windows Vista and Ubuntu grabs 1%

February 2, 2013
Windows 7 drops below 70% adoption on Steam, while Windows 8 passes Windows Vista and Ubuntu grabs 1%

Valve on Saturday updated its Hardware Software Survey for January 2013, and the news is very good for everyone except Apple. Both Microsoft and Canonical have reason to celebrate over Steam usage for the start of this year. Here is how things looked like for January 2013 on Steam, in order of biggest to...

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Flurry courts mobile developers with free crash reporting tool

February 2, 2013
Flurry courts mobile developers with free crash reporting tool

As a way to sweeten its mobile analytics product, Flurry Analytics is adding two more services to help mobile developers gauge how they’re attracting new users and how often their app crashes — and it’s adding those features for free. Both iOS and Android developers can use the Flurry SDK and will have access to new...

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Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich invests £70M in Truphone

February 2, 2013
Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich invests £70M in Truphone

Russian billionaire investor Roman Abramovich has plunked down £70 million (U.S. $110 million) for a big piece of London’s Truphone, an international mobile operator that charges local rates for calls made in other countries. Abramovich’s new 23.3 percent stake in Truphone isn’t quite as impressive as his outright ownership of the world-famous Chelsea Football Club...

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It’s official: the King of the energy nerds, Steven Chu, is leaving

February 2, 2013

Confirming a media report from last month, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, announced on Friday that he won’t be returning to office for President Obama’s second term. In a long letter, he detailed the accomplishments that the DOE has made over the past four years, like the ARPA-E program, and writes: While I will always...

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Google’s Schmidt: ‘Twitter Can No More Produce Analysis Than A Monkey Can Type Out A Work of Shakespeare’

February 2, 2013

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt’s upcoming book, The New Digital Age, isn’t pulling any punches. From the “irrelevance” of anonymity to some juicy thoughts on Twitter, the Wall Street Journal published some thought-provoking quotes from the book slated to be released in April. On Twitter “Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type...

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The Forgotten Secrets Of The Enterprise Giants: Virality, Word Of Mouth, And Other Radical Experiments

February 2, 2013
The Forgotten Secrets Of The Enterprise Giants: Virality, Word Of Mouth, And Other Radical Experiments

Editor’s note: David Barrett is founder and CEO of Expensify. Follow him on Twitter @expensify. I would strongly encourage everybody who competes with Expensify to study Roman Stanek’s latest article, “Forget Virality, Selling Enterprise Software Is Still Old School”. To everyone else, I’d offer an opposing view: Enterprise sales is undergoing the most radical shakeup since the turn...

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Cloud Latency Issues? Dedicated Network Connections Will Help

February 2, 2013
Cloud Latency Issues? Dedicated Network Connections Will Help

Editor’s note: Jelle Frank van der Zwet is Segment Marketing Manager, Cloud, for Interxion, and David Strom is a freelance writer.  Do you ever encounter delays in loading web-based applications and get impatient? Resulting from poor network latency, or how fast data is transferred from one location to another, these delays are frustrating to as end users,...

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