by Larry Sivitz, Seattle24x7, Editor in Chief The process of link building for search engine optimization and traffic building is time-intensive, but just how long should it take for targeted link building actions to take hold? Planning is essential and, based on your roadmap, your speed and mileage may vary. Link building involves multiple “channels” [...]
By Rod Rasmussen, IID President and Chief Technology Officer The numbers are truly staggering. More than 100 million people’s names, home addresses, email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and more were stolen at Sony, while tens of millions of additional email addresses were stolen during a data breach at marketer Epsilon. And what is [...]
by Tom Metz, Author, Investment Banker, Founder, T.V. Metz & Co., LLC. Selling a company at the right time can make a big difference in the price. The reason for selling can also affect the timing. One of the primary reasons that a technology company sells is that it has reached an inflection point. A [...]
by Amy Balliett, Co-founder, ZippyCart.com. By 2014, ecommerce spending is projected to increase 98% in the United States and Canada, which equals nearly $203 billion of yearly ecommerce revenue in these two countries alone. World-wide, ecommerce spending will reach nearly $525 billion. In other words, now is the perfect time to start selling online, as [...]
by Mike Davidson, BizBuilder Networking Groups. The SpringTides ActionStorm Business Summit to be held June 4th, 2011 at the Hilton Convention Center in SeaTac is offering to have Corporate Trainers come and deliver very powerful training, at no charge and no obligation, to companies or groups of 10 or more. “Some people get an education without [...]
by Joe McCarthy. Data Camp Seattle was a day-long unconference / hackathon organized by the Code for America Seattle fellows in collaboration with Socrata and the City of Seattle. The event brought together city leaders, neighborhood leaders, technologists and [other] civic-minded individuals and groups to share ideas, data and tools, and to build or improve applications to promote civic awareness, [...]
by Katie Douglas. As the evening of February 24th approaches the WTIA staff is buzzing with excitement about the most grandiose event our association holds each year, the annual Industry Achievement Awards. In its 16th year this celebration has evolved over time, but the heart of it remains the same – to recognize and reward [...]
MyHealthInsuranceWa.com Introduces “Health Plans By Request” In today’s volatile economic and political climate, it’s hard to know which way to turn when it comes to health insurance for yourself, your family or your self-employed or SMB business. Will decisions made today be obsolete tomorrow? How much money can be saved by choosing catastrophic coverage over [...]
by Janet DeDonato, CEO, Methodologie, @id_360 The design world watched with much fascination this month as the beloved global brand Gap attempted to update its iconic logo. What ensued is a cautionary tale for every major brand in the world and has generated more questions than answers. It became kind of a global passion play [...]
By Eric Best, CEO, Mercent With signs of improvement throughout the US economy, overall industry analyst sentiment indicates the 2010 holiday shopping season is likely to drive high competition among retailers seeking to land the increasingly bargain-savvy online consumer. To help online retailers prepare for the 2010 holiday selling season, Mercent and Amazon hosted a [...]
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Feb 6 2012
Techspresso Shots: PS Top Tech Talent Changing Posts, Places and Partners, Avg. Salary $90,000+
Like the Bay Area’s Silicon Valley, the “Emerald Triangle” of Seattle, Redmond and Kirkland has become a many faceted jewel of a marketplace for elite technical and management talent, and strong software design and programming professionals throughout the ranks.
As the NW tech world turns, management turnover churns with it. Watching the direction of “HR talent flow” from one company to another, is a fair predictor of who is up and who is down in any given industry category at a particular time.
Take “third-party apps” for example, and the shifting momentum in that market space between Microsoft and Amazon. Last year, Charlie Kindel (no Kindle “name-pun” intended), who was a Microsoft general manager leading third-party app initiatives, left the company to launch a start-up as yet unrealized. At the time Kindel called Windows Phone “the best product Microsoft has ever built.”
Now, his replacement, Brandon Watson is leaving Microsoft to join Amazon.com’s Kindle team also in third-part app development. Watson’s Twitter account confirmed the move. “The rumors are true. The team is in great hands,” he wrote on Friday. “I’ll miss working on #wpdev.”
Mary Jo Foley notes at ZDNet that the Amazon group Watson is joining makes Kindle apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows Phone. Watson leaves Windows Phone with a legacy of accomplishment According to AllAboutWindowsPhone.com, more than 60,000 items have now been published in the Windows Phone Marketplace.
Still it seems a bit surprising that the degree of overlap in the mobile app field is not restricted by a non-compete or non-disclosure agrement that would make it difficult to make such a switch “on the fly.”
Our talented cadre of Seattle workers are earning an average of $90,000 per year, up 5 percent from last year, plus an annual bonus of close to $10,000 according to a survey conducted by TechFlash. This compares favorably with the average annual wage of $81,327 for tech professionals nationwide.
Like the Microsoft and Amazon parallelism, the Bay Area has two opposing tech poles in Google and Apple. In an HR switch last week, Google purportedly pulled off a coup by hiring Apple’s senior director of product integrity for a secret project, according to VentureBeat. The hiring is interesting because the Department of Justice is investigating Google and Apple for allegedly working out a “no poach” agreement where the companies — along with Pixar, Lucasfilm, Intel and Intuit — allegedly conspired to suppress employee compensation by not poaching each other’s employees.
According to this Linkedin page, Simon Prakash worked at Apple for more than eight years where he was most recently the senior director of product integrity responsible for product quality across all of Apple’s products, from iPhones to Macs.
Now he’ll be working for Google on a secret project, presumably run by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who is in charge of a variety of secret research and development projects at Google. The company recently acquired Motorola Mobility, and it has a wide variety of hardware projects under way that Prakash might be working on. [24x7]