* Japan, United States among economies with talent shortages * 34 pct of world employers having difficulty filling jobs: survey ...
Chris Johnson | Posted 05.07.2012
Founded in 2000, Seamless flourished in the post dot com era as a web-based food delivery service, was acquired six years ago, and then spun out again last year. The spin out came with new capital and a renewed focus on product (think mobile) and innovation (think more mobile). It's a fresh start -- a born again startup.
Yul Kwon | Posted 05.01.2012
Like a lot of people, I had come to accept the conventional wisdom that America doesn't make anything anymore. What I discovered is that the prevailing narrative of decline and decay is overly simplistic and, in some ways, flat-out wrong.
Bryce Longton | Posted 04.24.2012
It's neither the office space nor the clever perks that make Tumblr such an of-the-moment place to work: it's the people.
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 04.08.2012
WASHINGTON — The number of available jobs in the United States jumped in December to near a three-year high, supporting other data that show a b...
AP | RANDALL CHASE | Posted 01.13.2012
DOVER, Del. -- A California solar panel manufacturer that received a half-billion dollar loan from the federal government before declaring bankruptcy ...
Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 12.26.2011
It's not that women can't make the grade, the study found. It's that, when it comes to venturing out into the workplace, they don't think they'll fit.
AP | JESSE WASHINGTON | Posted 12.24.2011
With black unemployment reaching historic levels, banks laying off tens of thousands and law school graduates waiting tables, why aren't more African-...
Posted 12.03.2011
For the third year in a row an American company has won the title of most attractive employer for engineers seeking a job. In its annual report of ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 09.25.2011
As the country faces continued economic stagnation and long-term unemployment, private sector innovation remains a ray of hope in an oftentimes bleak ...
Reuters | Posted 08.09.2011
CHICAGO (Deborah L. Cohen) - For entrepreneur Ash Bhoopathy, not even backing from Bill Gates gives his tech startup enough street cred to easily ...
Daily Finance | Loren Berlin | Posted 07.27.2011
The numbers aren't surprising. Poets aren't known for their obsession with material wealth. Public school teachers don't secretly think they'll get a ...
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 06.18.2011
A new worldwide organization is bringing together editors from different platforms, engineers and developers in news media in a bid to foster more sustainable professional journalism.
John Dearborn | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama and his administration are doing what they need to do: shining the brightest spotlight possible on entrepreneurship as a solution to our nation's job crisis.
Dr. Mariappan Jawaharlal | Posted 05.25.2011
Now our bright minds want to become bankers and lawyers. Our brightest talents are not choosing engineering, technology, science or math is a threat facing this nation.
Tom Loughlin | Posted 05.25.2011
It's precisely because of the success and vigor of complex systems that we often take their reliability for granted. Most of us rarely consider the safety of an oil rig until something goes awry.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Two congressmen say that BP's internal investigation into the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has identified new warning signs of p...
AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011
COVINGTON, La. — BP is going in for the kill. The trick is to do the job quickly and cleanly. As early as dawn Wednesday, the oil company will ...
Posted 05.25.2011
HOUSTON (AP) -- As engineers bore deeper into the seafloor toward the source of the oil still spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, BP PLC is growing more ...
Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011
Companies offering severance packages have generally sold the concept of lifetime employment concept. They are not places that fire employees without warning.
Gerald Bracey | Posted 11.17.2011
The US has more than double the number of students scoring at the highest level in the science assessment of the Programme of International Student Assessment than any other OECD nation.
Reuters | Posted 05.30.2012