December 22nd, 2011
December 22th afternoon news, technology companies located in San Francisco Bay Area, United States, not only fierce competition for full-time employees, the current competition will be extended to the summer intern. Google and other large companies have started to expand its summer intern program, and other small companies are also doing their part.
The cloud storage service providers-Dropbox’s engineering manager Rian Hunter said the company plans to hire 30 summer internship software engineers next year, and this year, only nine. Company hopes that practice software engineers can account for one-third of the total number of engineers.
Hunter said that more interns means that more novice will enter companies, Dropbox even expand the scope of the intern to college freshmen.
3D desktop application developer-Bump Technologies CEO Dave Lieb said that practice allow the company have the opportunity to select staff before the employment. The company plans to recruit 10 summer interns in next year. At present, the compensation is $ 10,000 for intern’s 12 weeks internship.
According to the intern service website InternMatch statistics, 93% of the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial technology companies were recruited or are going to the recruitment of interns.
December 8th, 2011
December 9th news, according to technology media TechCrunch reports, Facebook announced that, in order to simplify the product development process, the company has restructured the technical team. The technical team will be integrated into the company’s various product divisions, each department would report directly to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
These products division will be led by Chris Cox, Bret Taylor, Greg Badros, Mike Schroepfer and Sam Lessin.
Facebook has not named for these departments, but the CTO Taylor have been identified to responsible for the mobile sector, product general manager Bud Ross will responsible for advertising, vice president of engineering Shiluopufu will responsible for engineering operations, vice president of products Cox will responsible for general products business, timeline and information page will responsible by Sim.
Facebook has developed rapidly in recent years, it’s difficult to take into account the development of related products. Insiders pointed out that adjust the focus will help Facebook accelerate product development, reduce product development randomness.
December 1st, 2011
December 1th evening news, Yahoo’s statistics showed that Apple’s iPhone has became the hottest online search keywords in 2011 and beyond the major news events, celebrities and pop singer.
Yahoo said in the search rankings, TV personality Kim Kardashian, pop singer Katy Perry and singer and actress Jennifer Lopez in the top five list of the column, while it’s clearly that the iPhone became more popular than these celebrities.
Yahoo Web trend analyst Vera Chan announced the results on the call conference, said this is a first time since 2002 that product ranked first in the search. Yahoo according to network access based on user activity and a large number of consumer search behavior obtained the above results.
