GetHired Nabs $1.75 Million To Launch Its Video-Centric Recruiting Platform & Job Board

GetHired Nabs $1.75 Mil...

Paper resumes are — or should be — going out of style. They rarely give employers a complete profile of a potential hire, they’re filled with value-less buzzwords (or in my case, action verbs), and the thought of them makes trees cry. You don’t want to make trees...
Mark Shuttleworth Unveils New Head-Up Display for Ubuntu 12.04

Mark Shuttleworth Unvei...

Every time I write about Ubuntu and its (not-so) new Unity interface, I see lots and lots of comments decrying it as useless, an abomination, the worst thing to ever happen to computers, etc. Personally, I’m not so flummoxed by it, but there’s no denying that Unity has been a...

Amazon Web Services Deb...

After launching distributed database DynamoDB last week, Amazon Web Services is debuting another product—AWS Storage Gateway, which is a service that provides enterprises with a new option to securely upload and backup data to the AWS cloud from on-premises software appliances....
Android May Have Consumer Market Share, But iOS Is Tops In Enterprise

Android May Have Consum...

According to a new report from managed enterprise mobility provider Good Technology , iOS devices (iPhones and iPads) hold the top three spots in the list of the top 10 enterprise activations by device type. The report includes data gathered by Good for Q4 2011 and includes half of the...
Video: Dunder Mifflin’s Office Remade As A Counter Strike Source Map

Video: Dunder Mifflin...

Long before the advent of such games as Minecraft, virtual worlds were coded primarily as first person shooter maps. You could play Half-Life deathmatch in a super-sized kitchen, Counter Strike on a World War II battlefield and so on. Map making was an artform. But it’s clearly not...
Aviary Launches Major Upgrade To SDK, Now Powering 10 Million Photo Edits Per Month

Aviary Launches Major U...

Aviary , the company that makes it easy for mobile developers to integrate image editing into their apps, has a major launch today: they’re introducing an overhauled version of their mobile SDK that’s both more powerful and significantly better looking than the previous one,...

Hate When Companies Don...

If you’ve ever been on the job search, you know how frustrating and time consuming it is to manage the process. (If not, just ask one of the more than 13 million people in the U.S. currently there .) You spend untold hours filling out the right forms and fields, adding more action...

Fujitsu Japan Rolls Out...

Do women need special cell phones? Certain companies, such as Deutsche Telekom or Samsung , seem to think so. Now Fujitsu Japan is ready to roll out [JP] not one but two handsets specifically designed “for girls”, a feature phone and an Android model. The Android phone, the...

Financial Times Acquire...

The Financial Times has acquired London-based application development firm Assanka, which built a nifty HTML5 web app – and other applications – for the publisher. (Hat tip to Benedict Evans ) FT staffers such as Katie Morley and Jonathan Wheatley started spreading the news...

Google Ventures And Fou...

Crowdsourced SEM management startup Trada has raised $9 million in Series D financing from existing investors Foundry Group and Google Ventures. This brings Trada’s total funding to $17 million. Here’s how Trada works. Agencies and advertisers can specify a budget they are...

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