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Future-Proof Your Skill Set: Top-Demanded IT Skills
Looking to future-proof your skill set? You’d be wise to focus on mobile platforms and cloud computing for application development and IT delivery. IT professionals broadly say that mobile and cloud computing will be a major focus over the next few years, emerging as the most in-demand platforms for both application development and IT delivery.…
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Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Smartphones
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp unveiled a new line of phones running its Windows software on Monday, as it attempts to pull back market share from Apple Inc’s iPhone and Google Inc’s Android system in the fast-growing market for multi-featured "smartphones." The world’s largest software company is hoping that the new phones, from handset makers Samsung,…
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Always Be Closing
I had a closing kind of day. There’s a scene in The Boiler Room where Ben Affleck talks about closing. He asks “Who’s going to close? You or him?”. Alec Baldwin does it even better in Glengarry Glen Ross. Besides “Coffee is for closers”, Baldwin says “Only one thing counts. Get them to sign on…
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Jobs Report Disappoints
(Reuters) – The U.S. economy shed jobs in September for a fourth straight month as government payrolls fell and private hiring slowed, hardening expectations for more stimulus from the Federal Reserve to spur the recovery. Nonfarm payrolls dropped 95,000, the Labor Department said on Friday. Private employment, a better gauge of labor market health, increased…
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Microsoft, Adobe in Acquisition Talks, Report
SEATTLE, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Adobe Systems Inc’s (NASDAQ:ADBE) stock skyrocketed on Thursday after a media report stirred speculation it might become an acquisition target for Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT). The New York Times reported that Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer had met secretly with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen at Adobe’s San Francisco offices "recently." The…
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Facebook, Twitter Hold Security Threats: Report
Nearly two billion people today use the Internet to conduct business, communicate with family and friends, stay-in-touch with current events and entertain themselves – and in doing so, expose themselves to an extensive and growing number of malware threats, according to a report released by IT management software and solutions company CA Technologies. The company’s…