Nokia to Shake Up Workforce
Nokia Corp. said Wednesday it plans to outsource its Symbian software operations and cut its global workforce by 4,000 employees by the end of 2012 as part of an effort to cut costs by $1.46 billion....
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Amazon Seeks Greater Fulfillment by Adding Distribution Centers
Amazon is expanding its warehouse capacity at an insanely aggressive pace, having already announced five new distribution centers so far this year, including two since yesterday. The five new...
View ArticleRecruiters Troll Facebook for Candidates They Like
More companies are trying to tap Facebook Inc.’s 750-million-plus user base to find new employees, threatening traditional job boards and competing with LinkedIn Corp., which has dominated the online...
View ArticleVerizon Employees to Return to Work
About 45,000 Verizon Communications Inc. workers agreed to return to work Tuesday, under a previous contract, after striking to protest benefits cuts that the telecommunications giant sought to offset...
View ArticleManagement Quality Assurance
“Better check yo self before you wreck yo self” – Ice Cube Everyone in the technology industry seems to agree that people are paramount, yet nobody seems to be on the same page about what the people...
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Casual Game Maker Big Fish Cuts Checks to Shareholders on Way to IPO
Seattle-based Big Fish, which develops and publishes casual games at a rate of one per day, has doled out a hefty dividend to nearly all of its employees. According to multiple sources, 75 percent of...
View ArticleWhen a Facebook Rant Gets You Fired
Workers fired or disciplined for bad-mouthing employers on social-networking sites are fighting back using a decades-old labor law — a new front in the murky battle over what workers can do and say...
View ArticleTrunk Club Appoints Former eBay Executive as COO
Trunk Club, an online shopping service for men who don’t like to shop, has hired Rob Chesney as COO. Most recently, Chesney was an entrepreneur in residence at Greylock Partners. Before that, he served...
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Americans Played Anything but Social Games During the Holidays
The number of people playing games on Facebook tanked last week, as some game makers were unable to capitalize on people’s downtime during the holidays. The drop-off in players affected almost all...
View ArticleYahoo Employees Fear Layoffs as Thompson Brings New Vision
In restoring the morale of Yahoo employees, Chief Executive Scott Thompson has his work cut out for him. The company’s 14,000 employees have endured five different CEOs over the past five years,...
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Gilt Groupe CEO: Restructuring Rumors Overblown, IPO Still on Track
Gilt Groupe CEO Kevin Ryan is denying rumors that the luxury e-commerce company is undergoing a massive restructuring, and said nearly all of its 900 employees and business units will remain intact....
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eBay Is the Most Recent Bay Area Transplant to Seek Access to Seattle's...
EBay has opened up an office in the suburbs of Seattle, where it has aggressive plans to double the number the employees it has there, to 150. The e-commerce giant (a term typically reserved for Amazon...
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Amazon Sees No Reason to Slow Its Spending
Amazon defended its free-spending habits yesterday in a call with analysts, arguing that it continues to see new opportunities and will invest accordingly. The comments follow a less than stellar...
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Amazon's Seattle Expansion Plans Reveal Three New Office Towers and Much More!
Amazon revealed plans for its Seattle headquarters last night, including the construction of 3.3 million square feet of office space over the next eight years. The blueprints would more than double...
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Exclusive: Zynga's Engineering VP for New Gaming Platform Moves On
Neil Roseman, Zynga’s VP of Engineering, has resigned after 15 months at the social games company, AllThingsD.com has confirmed. Most recently, Roseman (pictured on the right, with Zynga’s CEO Mark...
View ArticleZillow to Open Southern California Sales Office
Zillow, which aggregates real estate information online, said it is opening a new sales office in Irvine, Calif., later this summer, with plans to hire up to 100. The Seattle company said the employees...
View ArticleHow Does Valve Decide What to Work On?
The same way we make other decisions: by waiting for someone to decide that it’s the right thing to do, and then letting them recruit other people to work on it with them. We believe in each other to...
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Amazon's Homepage Splashes Big News (For a Small Audience)
Amazon has taken over its own homepage this morning with a letter from founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, but it’s not to announce a fancy new Kindle Fire or the much-rumored Amazon phone. Rather, it is...
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DowninthedumpsVille: Morale Sinking at Zynga Along With Stock Drop
Will more Zynga employees be on their way out the door, as the company continues to struggle after going public only eight months ago? Yes, indeed, if morale at the San Francisco-based social games...
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One on One
It’s funny because it’s been on my mind lately Having a dope beat, dope idea. Sixteen bars ain’t enough! How the f*ck can I squeeze my whole life into a 16 bar verse? —Rick Ross, Sixteen After I wrote...
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Zynga Shrugs Off Losses as Two More VPs Leave
Zynga Vice Presidents Bill Mooney and Brian Birtwistle have left the company, representing two of the latest high-level managers to leave. Bloomberg first reported the exits, but did not know where...
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Square Finally Closes $200 Million Round at -- Cha-Ching! -- A $3.25 Billion...
Square has finally closed its fourth round of funding, which values the three-year-old company at a jaw-dropping $3.25 billion. The payments company is perhaps best known for allowing small businesses,...
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Facebook Shares Take a Dip on Lockup Expirations
As more than 200 million shares of Facebook were freed up for trading on Wednesday morning, the social giant’s stock price fell to $20.94 per share, a 5 percent decrease from the previous closing...
View ArticleApple Gives In to Employee Perks
When it comes to keeping employees happy, Apple Inc. appears to be taking some inspiration from Google Inc. Earlier this year, Apple told some employees about a new initiative called “Blue Sky” that...
View ArticleTracking Sensors Invade the Workplace
A few years ago when Bank of America Corp. wanted to study whether face time mattered among its call-center teams, the big bank asked about 90 workers to wear badges for a few weeks with tiny sensors...
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