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DeveloperAuction Raises $2.7M for Novel Talent Marketplace
DeveloperAuction matches engineers and job openings through a process that involves curating a pool of candidates for two-week “auction” periods, requiring employers to specify an offer value before scheduling interviews, and giving cash bonuses to hired engineers on their first day. The year-old company just raised $2.7 million from investors including NEA and Sierra Ventures.
Apple’s Getting Bigger in Texas
If it keeps up like this, Apple will soon employ more people in Austin than Dell.News Byte
SkillPages Launches Mobile App for Finding Odd Jobs
Dublin-based SkillPages, a start-up for short-term jobs, plans to launch its first mobile app today. The site connects users who have various skills — ranging from accounting to photography — with the instances where those skills are in demand. SkillPages’ network is currently much denser in the U.K. than it is in the U.S., but the new iPhone app is aimed at making local connections easier, as this promotional screenshot shows.Read It and Cringe: LinkedIn’s Overused Buzzwords
The one story you’ll read today that will make you want to update your resume. Immediately.Confirmed: LivingSocial Slashes 400 Jobs in Attempt at Profitability
The second-largest daily deals company confirmed it laid off roughly 10 percent of its workforce today.Sokanu Says Science Can Help You Find Your Dream Job
Job placement meets Match.com, with a dash of Stephen Colbert.How Obama or Romney Should Have Answered the iPad Question
When CNN’s Candy Crowley asked why iPad and iPhones can’t be made in America, here is what one of the candidates — either one — should have said in response.News Byte
Oracle Picks SelectMinds to Beef Up Its Headhunting Game
Enterprise giant Oracle announced Monday that it will acquire SelectMinds, a social networking company that has found its niche with corporate recruiters. It’s another deal in step with a string of 2012 acquisitions for Oracle, a company that has never been afraid to acquire outside talent and technology. Along the same lines, Oracle closed a nearly $2 billion deal to acquire Taleo — another company focused on the business of headhunting — in February. Terms of the SelectMinds deal were not disclosed.Dear Internet: Where Should I Live?
The economy has altered the American dream of owning homes, cars and white picket fences. Here are three sites for the perpetually moving.Voices





