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Laying Off Microsoft

Jason Yormark

There was no question really when Microsoft offered. I put in four amazing years with Microsoft Advertising and made life long friends in the process. I never imagined Microsoft would lay anyone off, but the economy had other plans. Hell, Microsoft throws away millions of dollars on everything you could imagine.

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Machine Learning Applications To Give Your Startup A Competitive Edge

The Realtime Report

Machine Learning Applications To Give Your Startup A Competitive Edge. billion healthcare market, and its banking on machine learning powered startups to achieve that end. Here are three ways your startup can get in on the ground floor of the machine learning revolution in order to gain a jump on your competition.

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity SMM

Active across social networks, Cindy leads Microsoft’s small- to midsized-business sales and marketing efforts as Vice President U.S. The 10-year Microsoft veteran is also a graduate of Harvard Business School. Her varied background includes corporate roles (B2B and B2C), agencies, non-profits and startups. Cindy Bates.

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From The Information Age To The Connected Age " GigaOM

Buzz Marketing for Technology

All Stories Web Broadband Infrastructure Mobile Voice FoundRead Briefings Archives. Microsoft represents the Information Age, while Google hints at the shift towards the Connected Age. Microsoft (Information Age) vs. Google (Connected Age). Microsoft (MSFT) exemplifies the Information Age. Can your startup look like this?

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Social Media News Ticker: Edit Your Facebook ‘Look Back,’ LinkedIn Kills ‘Intro,’ Twitter Debuts Data Grant Program

The Realtime Report

LinkedIn to acquire job-seeking site Bright for $120 million – data-driven job search startup Bright is LinkedIn’s largest acquisition to date; Bright used algorithms to match job seekers to positions (re/code). Foursquare. Any social media updates that we missed this week?

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Facebook’s IPO: 5 Must-Reads

Firebelly

But Facebook has many of the traits that made Apple, Microsoft, and Google great in the long run. Everything from mobile to ecommerce to pure research and development are ripe for investment, but the company can’t do everything at once. Facebook future? The Failure of Facebook’s IPO. By Ari Levy and Lee Spears Facebook Inc.’s

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Other topics (or "lessons") could include the following: RSS, flickr , Wikipedia , social bookmarking, search engines/blog search engines, virtual worlds, VoIP/Skype, mobile media, interactive gaming, and other tools that can be found on this nice list on the Teaching PR blog. mobile web. mobile web. ReadWriteWeb.

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