4.16.2010
The Ecomony is GREAT for Techies
Calling all MIT, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, and Cal Tech grads. Tech companies are hiring again and they are looking for YOU!Thursday, Google announced it hired 786 employees in the first quarter and is expected to continue hiring throughout 2010:
"We expect to continue hiring aggressively through the year," said Google Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette on a call with analysts. "We have a strong pipeline of candidates primarily focused on engineering and sales, and we are on-boarding them to fuel our growth agenda as fast as possible."Intel is hiring for the first time in five years, Cisco will add 2,000 to 3,000 workers, and loads of smaller companies and start-ups are headhunting as well. “It’s a very competitive job market,” says a LinkedIn VP.
Social-networking company LinkedIn Corp. said it recruited 184 people last year to bring its work force to around 500 people, with most of that hiring done in the fourth quarter. The company has hired an additional 154 people so far this year.
3.24.2010
How 7 Popular Tech Companies Got Their Names
1. HP - Coin FlipHeads Hewlett-Packard & Tails, Packard-Hewlett. We see who won.
2. Apple: Steve Jobs likes apples.
After being 3 months late in filing for a name and trademark, Steve Jobs challenged the other founders to come up with a name better than Apple by the end of the day.
I suppose no better names were found.
3. Microsoft
MICROcomputer SOFTware. Yep, that's it.
4. Adobe
Adobe was named after Adobe Creek, a river in Los Altos, California, that ran behind the house of one of the founders, John Warnock.
5. Oracle
RDBMS was the initial project started by the founders for the CIA. The project was codenamed "Oracle" because it was supposed to be able to answer any question about anything (the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything?). Although the CIA ended this project, the company ORACLE is definitely still around.
6. Sony
It was derived from sonus, the Latin word for sound, and a weird Engrish slang expression, "sonny boy", which in 1950s Japan connoted "smart, presentable young men," which is what Sony founder, Akio Morita, considered himself
7. Google
Google was named after Googol, which refers to the number 10100, or a 1 followed by a hundred zeros, which is more than the number of atoms in the universe, to symbolize the massive amounts of data that they were setting out to crawl and organize.
I love this one.
read more @ Business Insider
