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Apple already has added several hundred engineers and operations staff in the Middle Kingdom since mid-2013, pushing the total number of engineers and operations staff north of 600, according to sources cited by The Wall Street Journal. (Apple itself declined to comment.)

In November, Microsoft announced that it would eliminate forced ranking -- where managers would grade employees against each other and rank them on a scale of one to five, which meant a certain percentage of staff always would be designated as underperformers. Many dissatisfied former employees spoke out against the system...

Yan Zhu, a staff technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told LinuxInsider that much of the growth in hacktivism is due to the rise in public awareness of Aaron Swartz over the last year "Aaron spent a lot of his time hacking on projects for social and political ...

Feb. 18. University of Maryland discovers data breach that compromised personal information -- including names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and student ID numbers -- of more than 300,000 faculty, staff and students dating back to 1998 Feb. 19. Adallom Labs identifies ...

Commitments to legacy IT systems remained an impediment to pursuing cloud platforms. In addition, more than two thirds of respondents said their agencies lacked the necessary skilled staff to execute cloud strategies, and 30 percent said they would need to hire between 11 and 20 new employees for cloud deployments.

Autonomy apparently pressured the managers of analysts who wrote negatively about it to shut them up, forbade company staff from speaking to them, and barred them from attending meetings on quarterly financial results. "HP had just lost one CEO, Mark Hurd; its current CEO Mar...

"Cost-cutting measures will need to be introduced, albeit not on the scale of Zynga's recalibration across the past two years," Bailey added, noting that "King hasn't staffed up anywhere near to the extent that Zynga did during its acquisition spree." ...

Cultural Changes: One of the main themes of 3.0 is shifting from an annual compliance approach to embedding security in your daily processes. Threats don't change just once a year; they are constantly evolving, and that means e-commerce organizations must adopt a culture of vigilance. Only through a proactive business-as-usual approach to security can you achieve true DSS compliance. Realistically, this could mean the need to provide more education and build awareness with your staff, partners and providers, so that everyone understands why and how your new processes are in place.

The deal will let Comcast "wield unprecedented gatekeeper power in several important markets," said John Bergmayer, senior staff attorney at Public Knowledge Regulators should review the effect on market power for content providers and consumers; the impact on innovation and m...

"It's an interesting mission, and it's [China's] first moon mission, so there's been a lot of press about it," said Paul Spudis, Ph.D., senior staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute "I think people have kind of latched onto it emotionally. They've mythologized it...

"I said to the Microsoft staff there, 'You are running the world's largest email system on Linux?' They replied, 'Yes, but it is a secret,'" he recalled Growth Factor...

Yet legal staffs across the federal government are struggling to productively use many of these IT tools, especially e-discovery and electronically stored information, or ESI, according to a recent report from Deloitte "It has become increasingly apparent that as government le...

It also is understood now that BI should not be limited to the few highly trained engineers or IT staff who are versed in the application, but rather should be more of a utility that anyone in the organization can access, he added. Leveraging Excel is a particularly genius mo...

First Glass Travel: Virgin Atlantic Staff Don Google Glass At London's Heathrow Airport, members of Virgin Atlantic concierge staff are now wearing Google Glass as part of their getup....

Corporations do realize strong security is essential. When asked about their organization's top security priorities in the immediate and intermediate future, a 55 percent majority indicated "ensuring robust and adequate security," followed by 44 percent who cited the need to obtain security training for "IT staff and end users." Forty-three percent of respondents said their companies must "update and enforce security policies."

Among the concerns reflected in the survey are that 31 percent of federal staff respondents used public WiFi technology for work tasks; 52 percent reported failure to utilize multifactor authentication or data encryption; and 25 percent failed to use passwords on mobile devices for work purposes.

Former child chess prodigy Demis Hassabis is one of its cofounders. The other two are Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman. DeepMind's staff include Jaan Tallinn, cocreator of Skype and KaZaa Prior to its purchase by Google, DeepMind was recruiting machine learning researchers and ...

Second, you need processes that allow reps to participate in assessments of what's working and what isn't. A customer service VP or manager knows a lot, but the collective knowledge of a well-trained staff of customer service reps is probably greater and certainly more current than that of their boss.

"We think this could have a very significant impact on the debate about metadata collection," Patrick Toomey, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, told TechNewsWorld. However, "I don't have any hopes that the report will have any meaningful effect on the...

AirWatch staff will continue to report to company cofounder and CEO John Marshall as part of VMware's end-user computing group Meanwhile Alan Dabbiere, AirWatch's chairman and other cofounder, will oversee a new AirWatch operating board, which will report to VMware CEO Pat Gel...