With all the pull backs in hiring, it is getting hard to find companies with any openings. So, out of curiosity, I made a list of 33 companies I’ve been asked recently about and ranked them by their perspective job openings versus their number of current employees. The chart below is the top ranked companies in my list. For those of you concerned about “American Jobs”, I added a column that describes the of job openings for this company that are on American soil as opposed to overseas. These companies look to be expanding or at least investing in new product development. (more…)
As the risks of running a compromised personal computer (PC) becomes increasingly more expensive to individual computer users (from an identity management and administrative perspective), the day is fast approaching where every computer will come standard with not one, but two hard drives. One drive for the operating system (OS), and yet another for customer applications and data. (more…)
Finding technical talent is big business. Monster World Wide (MNST), best known for its Monster.com service has a market cap of $5.9 billion and yearly revenues of $1.1 billion. CareerBuilder, who was 1/5 the size of Monster in 2002, recently overtook Monster in quarterly revenue. There are also thousands of executive search firms, the top 10 of these search firms post yearly revenues (in 2006) between $63.7 million and $552.9 million. So, the top 2 Internet job sites along with the top 10 executive search firms represent $4.9 billion in yearly revenue - excluding the advertising money raked in by these websites. While revenues continue to sore, find out what is increasingly becoming a obstacle in this business. (more…)
Research completed on which IPTV Set Top Boxes (STB)s use various IPTV chipsets has uncovered evidence that the race is much closer than what some of the more vocal chipset vendors in this space have claimed. After researching more than 60 different IPTV Set Top Box (STB) manufacturers and over 15 different chipset vendors, Focus Enhancements, NXP Semiconductors, Sigma Designs, ST Microelectronics, and Texas Instruments round out the top 5. (more…)
