A new perk for Google employees: servantsIn recent months the US tech industry has experienced a shortage of programmers, resulting in companies like Google and Yahoo using various perks to lure employees. Google’s latest appetiser: servants, writes Ryan Tate.
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Apple is now the tech king
Apple is now officially the largest technology company in the world. It’s the climax of a ten-year story from failing computer company to the hottest cult brand in the world.
Hot new job title: ninja
Forget “guru” and “evangelist” — the trendy new buzzword for what we used to call “expert” is apparently now “ninja”. In less surprising news, most of these self-appointed neo-warriors are white IT nerds.
Apple closes in on Microsoft
Ten years ago, Apple’s market capitalisation was $17 billion and Microsoft’s was $356 billion. Today, Apple’s is $182 billion, compared with Microsoft’s $261 billion. Can it come from behind to completely conquer the computing market?
Arrington: The embargo is dead, chaos rules
When Michael Arrington, founder of tech gossip blog TechCrunch, announced he would no longer be honoring press embargoes, critics predicted it kill the site. But a year on, he says, embargoes are virtually extinct in the tech world, and his readers couldn’t be happier.
Tech-sploitation? Life inside a Chinese gadget sweatshop
The manufacturers of tech products recently came into the spotlight after a Chinese worker at an iPhone factory committed suicide. So what’s life really like for the people who build your iPods, laptops and digital photo frames? Seriously depressing, according to this worker’s account.
The tech industry’s bloody secret
The mineral trade that powers the manufacturing of computers, mp3 players, mobiles and other gadgets could also be funding a bloody civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Do some of the world’s biggest electronics companies have blood on their hands?
