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• From eTours To Commanding Ask.com: Jim Lanzone's Story

  Published: July 30, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Ask Employees

  I Fought the Law from the New York Times tells the story of how Jim Lanzone defaulted to a legal degree and learned his true passion was for Internet companies. Jim Lanzone, Ask.com's CEO, attended the Emory University School of Law in Atlanta. He then worked for Justice Hugh P. Thompson at the Supreme Court of Georgia, and then had a summer job

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• Become Google's Next Submarine Cable Negotiator

  Published: August 2, 2007, 9:31 am

  Tags: Google Employees

  Gary Price reports Google has a new job opening for a Strategic Negotiator, Submarine Cable in their Mountain View office. A "Submarine Cable Negotiator" you say? Gary explains, "submarine cables run underneath the oceans to send and deliver various forms of telecom." This job requires the submarine cable man to "identify, select, and negotiate

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• The Facts Behind Halo 3 Epsilon

  Published: August 12, 2007, 4:10 pm

  Tags: Halo, Alpha Beta, Apparently, Beta Testers, Bungie, Custom Games, Epitaph, Epsilon, Full Game, Game Variant, Halo 3, Kotaku, Maps, Matchmaking, Microsoft Employees, Multiplayer, Saved Film, Shed Little Light, Special Test, Valhalla, Variants

  of Bungie and Microsoft employees playing “Halo 3 Epsilon” online. Apparently, some of the Beta testers are also in on this new “Epsilon”. Kotaku uncovered some facts behind the project that shed a little light on the mystery. Here’s the message they uncovered: Congratulations on being selected to

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• Google's CFO, George Reyes, To Resign

  Published: August 28, 2007, 5:25 pm

  Tags: Google Employees

  Google Finance Chief to Resign from the Wall Street Journal reports that Google's CFO since 2002 has announced he is resigning from Google. George Reyes, Google's current CFO, is the second major Google executive to leave Google, with Cindy McCaffrey the former VP of corporate communications leaving back at the end of 2004. Click to continue

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• New Equipment for Canadian Navy

  Published: July 5, 2007, 9:33 am

  Tags: Canadian Shipyards, Modernization Of Frigates, Frigates, Halifax, Employees, Canadian Companies, Suppliers, Prime Minister Stephen Harper

  Canadian shipyards, their employees and their suppliers. The $3.1 billion modernization of the Halifax-Class frigates will begin in 2010, with the final ship being completed in

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• Larryos, Raisin Brin, Porn Flakes & Other Google Cereals

  Published: September 4, 2007, 3:19 pm

  Tags: Google Employees

  I was at Google last month and did a double-take at the wall art up near one of the mini-kitchens. It featured familiar cereal brands morphed with Google personalities like Larry Page (Larryos) and Sergey Brin (Raisin Brin). I shot a few pictures, below, plus here's some of the backstory. Google's fairly famous for its mini-kitchens

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• Heard On The Street: So the big rumor going around today about ...

  Published: September 12, 2007, 11:39 am

  Tags: Be Like Col, Col Allan, Heard On The Street, Rupert Murdoch, Things Not To Say To Your New Employees, Wall Street Journal

  So the big rumor going around today about Rupert Murdoch's plans for the Wall Street Journal concerns a recent meeting with the paper's top brass, where Murdoch brought up the name of shiraz-swilling...

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• An inconvenient excuse'

  Published: September 17, 2007, 1:28 am

  Tags: The Judiciary, Access To Information, Governance, Access To Information Network, Code Of Conduct Ethical Standards For Public Officials Employees, Joseph Estrada, Perjury, Plunder Trial, Sandiganbayan, Statement Of Assets Liabilities Net Worth

  WHEN deposed president Ferdinand Marcos was accused of ill-gotten wealth, one of the most compelling pieces of evidence against him was the assets declaration he filed shortly after he assumed office in 1965. That document showed there was no way he could explain his personal fortunes — having opened secret offshore accounts — with

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• Google Hires NY Ad Exec To Lead New 'Creative Lab Unit'

  Published: September 19, 2007, 10:45 am

  Tags: Google Employees

  Both the Wall Street Journal and AdAge are reporting this morning that Google has hired Ogilvy & Mather's Andy Berndt to run a new New York-based group it's calling the "Creative Lab Unit." The Wall Street Journal article says the unit "will look for more creative ways Google products can be used in marketing pitches." Click to continue

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• Gates, Brin & Page: Top 5 Richest People In Forbes 400

  Published: September 21, 2007, 9:03 am

  Tags: Google Employees

  Forbes released The Forbes 400 and in the top ten richest Americans includes Microsoft's Bill Gates and Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Gates topped the list at number one with a net worth of $59.0 billion. Sergey Brin is new to the Forbes 400, making his debut at number five, with a net worth of $18.5 billion. Larry Page also is new to

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• Flickr Find: Lehigh Valley Apple Store grand opening

  Published: September 30, 2007, 10:00 pm

  Tags: Apple, Employees, Flickr, Geniuses, Iphone, Lehigh, Lehigh Valley, Retail, Store, Whitehall

  Filed under: Retail, Odds and ends, Apple, Flickr Find The Lehigh Valley Apple Store opened its doors yesterday in Whitehall, Pennsylvania, and TUAW readers were there with cameras in hand. Mike Hoff sent a whole flickr set of pics from the event, including pics of those trendy geniuses, and all the blessed souls who made the journey to stand in

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• Google Expanding Engineering Staff In Europe

  Published: October 1, 2007, 10:11 am

  Tags: Google Employees

  Google Hiring Engineers Abroad from the New York Times reports Google is expanding their engineering base in Europe. They are hiring local engineers in Europe and outside of the U.S. in order to build out better products in those local markets. The report claims a Google spokesperson as saying Google is expanding their "presence in Europe."

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• Haze Developer, Free Radical, Paying Its Staff Overtime

  Published: October 1, 2007, 1:10 pm

  Tags: Games Industry, Sony, Games, Employees, Free Radical, Haze, Ps3, Steve Ellis

  in regards to how their employees are sometimes treated. It’s well-known that a position programming a high-profile game usually entails long hours, little compensation for extra work, and the inevitable “crunch time” prior to a major release. However, Free Radical Design, who is about to enter a crunch for their upcoming

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• Funny Advertising

  Published: October 5, 2007, 10:41 am

  Tags: Humor, Dialectology, Humor, Imaginary Store, Personal Commentary, Philology, Psycho, Store Employees, Tag Line

  personal views from store employees, etc. Some of us are trying to make money with our personal blogs. We are opinionated and don’t care what people think. I thought of a scenario where me and some of my blogging buddies work in a grocery store together. This imaginary store allows us to add personal commentary on their ads to provide us

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• Are abusive bosses or inferior employees to blame?

  Published: October 5, 2007, 5:46 pm

  Tags: Society, Abusive Bosses, Employees, Workplace Stress

  Considerable attention, both in blogs and in popular media, has been given to abusive bosses over the past few years. Less discussed are employees' responses to such behavior. How do employees react to abusive supervisors" Do they simply take what is dished out, or do they actively seek to change the situation"

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