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I Can Has $30M: LOLcats Become Funny Business

in Social on January 17, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

Would the thought of investing $30 million in a set of WordPress blogs and tools for captioning pictures of cats make you laugh out loud?

News Byte

Apple Puts Out Feelers for Antenna Experts

in News on June 30, 2010 at 12:10 pm PT

Read into this what you will, but Apple’s job listings now include at least eight openings for phone antenna and reception experts, several posted right around the time that reports of iPhone 4 antenna problems began to surface. The current crew of engineers certainly has its hands full–as do the AppleCare reps.

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Cisco: Job Listings Drop 93 Percent in a Week

in News on November 21, 2008 at 11:10 am PT

Cisco, true to its word, began reducing its headcount this week. Drastically. Aaron Rakers, an analyst at Wachovia Capital Markets, noticed that the total number of the company’s job listings has fallen 93 percent in the last week. Rakers isn’t specific about how many of those jobs are in Silicon Valley, but job-listing businesses advertising on the radio in the Bay Area may want to change their recession-defying promises of “thousands of job openings” to “thousands of applicants.”