SEATTLE — Are you lost wandering aimlessly in the midst of hip hop jargon? Want to know what “fo-shizzle” or “holla” really mean? Are you curious to know the difference between Phat and Fat or Def and Deaf? Just look it up in the UIEvolution powered mobile hip-hop slang dictionary – Hip Hoptionary. “UIEvolution is [...]
Poised for Growth: Washington State has the Work Force and Business Climate to Lead the Bio-IT Industry by Charlene Slayton SEATTLE — Bio-IT or bioinformatics is often referred to as computational biology or where computer science meets traditional biology. Poised for remarkable growth, the bio-IT industry is now emerging from an era of pure hype [...]
by Charlene Slayton SEATTLE — With enough computing power, Dr. David Baker, UW associate professor of biochemistry, believes he and other scientists could unlock the mysteries of structural biology. This would enable the creation of better drugs and treatments for diseases such as AIDS and malaria, and new methods of detoxifying poisonous substances in the [...]
Gnome — according to folk tales, one of a race of beings, usually magical, who live in the earth guarding treasure (in today’s parlance: podcasting devices, PDA’s, sub-notebooks, IM gadgets, Wi-Fi hotspots and other tech wizardry). The gnomes of Zürich — international bankers and financiers, especially those based in Switzerland The gnome of Seattle and of [...]
Enables soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan to stay connected with their loved ones and watch their children grow up at home By Geoff Daily, StreamingMedia.com Staying in touch with friends and family is a constant struggle for soldiers, especially those stationed on the battlefield in hotspots like Iraq and Afghanistan. While long-distance phone cards are [...]
The prominent, three-syllable name that starts with an M is synonymous with the start of personal computing. It has come to dominate several industry categories in both hardware and software. And its legendary chairman is a veritable household word. Given the height of its growing popularity, several Puget Sound companies are today surfing the curl [...]
BELLEVUE, Wash.– Nov. 17 — The holidays are about visiting family and friends at home — or are they? According to a national survey commissioned by Expedia.com, more than a third (36 percent) of U.S. adults say they’d rather relax at the beach, ski, or spend a night out on the town for a vacation [...]
BELLEVUE, Wash.– In the digital age, you never know who might be checking out you or your blog — including people connected to your job. A new survey commissioned by metasearch engine Dogpile (www.dogpile.com) and conducted by Harris Interactive(R) shows that nearly one in four U.S. adults (23 percent) have searched online for information about [...]
Is a beauty salon or single’s spot the ideal upload zone for visual user data? It might be if the goal is to put the “best face” on the product and the product happens to be your sex appeal, good looks and sparkling personality. “Sitting around with hair color on your head can get…well… ho-hum [...]
“$10 million in ten days!” sounds a lot like a Seattle slogan made popular during the Internet’s heady, capital raising years, when local Internet execs went on a “road show” to prove their mettle before going IPO. But this fundraising message is a different kind of battle cry for a campaign that will decide the [...]
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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]