More and more people are finding jobs via Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites. These media aren’t changing how we look for jobs, they are simply rebooting the traditional habits of successful job hunters and making them easier. To boost your job search:
Goldman Sachs, the most powerful investment bank on Wall Street, is getting into the social media game. In a job posting on the company website, the bank said the ideal candidate will be responsible for “monitoring online conversations and participating in those conversations to build brand visibility and thought leadership.” It’s just the latest step [...]
When it comes to networking, quality matters more than quantity.
The new chief executive of troubled tech giant Yahoo is planning a major reorganization that could result in “thousands” of layoffs, according to a new report by AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher. Such a shakeup, which could begin as soon as the end of the month, would be only the latest attempt by Yahoo to reinvigorate its [...]
Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital firm run by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and his partner Ben Horowitz, is fast becoming one of the most influential forces in Silicon Valley. On Tuesday, the firm announced that it has raised a whopping $1.5 billion to invest in tech startups. The massive investment pool demonstrates the intense investor [...]
Twitter’s announcement that it could begin censoring tweets on a country-by-country basis drew criticism from free-speech activists. Other observers were less concerned, attributing the move to the realities of operating in a global environment. Then, on Monday, Twitter’s new policy received praise from a Chinese state-run newspaper. With friends like these…
Google’s growing struggle with Facebook and Twitter for advantage in the social networking space erupted into public view Tuesday after the search giant’s competitors unveiled a new tool to undermine its latest product, Google “Search plus Your World.”
Twitter and Facebook. Facebook and Twitter. You may love, or loathe, one app more than the other. Or you may love – or loathe – both equally. Here’s what’s indisputable: they are the two social media titans of our age. Yet, one of these social networks – Facebook – will generate $3.5 billion in revenue [...]
I’m cleaning out my timemagazine.com e-mail inbox one last time. One thing that this exercise is driving home to me is that, after more than 13 years at effectively the same e-mail address (e-mails addressed to my old fortunemail.com address still land in my inbox), a journalist gets an insane amount of PR spam. And [...]
