Marketing Jobs Now Outsourced to India & China
There’s a disturbing side-effect that’s coming from the increased use of internet marketing – it can be done cheaper in China and India.
While advertising continues to bring us greater efficiencies and cheaper costs, it’s also driving our need for faster turnaround and rapid deployment. When you can test 100 ads online within a week, you need a solution that can keep up with that pace, without breaking the bank.
Why Bloggers Don’t Need a Labor Union
It appears some left-wing political bloggers are trying to form a labor union in hopes they’ll receive health insurance and better working standards. Here are five reasons why this is a stupid move.
1. Where do we draw the line?
It seems we can barely agree on how to define a blogger, so how do we decided who gets to join the union?
Google May Get More Land In Boston
Boston is sometimes referred to as “the Hub of the Universe,” and as much as I like the city, that status seems improbable. But Boston may at least become more of a hub within Google, as a local writer has indicated that the search giant could lease land in the area.
Childbirth 2.0: Have Blackberry, Will Twitter
Who needs a birth certificate when you’ve got Twitter, Flickr, and Ustream to document the blessed event? Who’s ready for Birthing 2.0?
Getting Better Employees Than Google
Google offers its employees an amazing collection of perks, but other companies need workers, too, and those companies don’t want to deal exclusively with Mountain View’s leftovers. So Forbes’s Brian Caulfield figured out several ways to compete with Google during the hiring process.
Homophobic Hackers Hit Gay Gaming Site
GayGamers.net isn’t so gay lately. (Look, if you want me to avoid the gratuitous puns, you’re going to be severely disappointed.) The site was hate-hacked over the weekend.
Search: Tell Them How-To Do It
People want to know how to tie a necktie and would really like their favorite search engine to give them a hand.
Yahoo India’s Managing Director To Depart
Yahoo India will soon be deprived of its managing director – reports indicate that George Zacharias has put in his “four-to-six week notice.” After concluding his career with Yahoo, Zacharias intends “to pursue his own entrepreneurial interests.”
Do Bloggers Need To Unionize?
There have always been pro-union people and anti-union people, and you can usually guess who’s what depending on their individual caste. In this case, though it carries with it the same arguments, it will have to be decided first if an industry has emerged from nebulous existence and into a viable, thriving industry.
Consumers Favor Location Based Mobile Services
Forty-two percent of parents with children under age 13 are willing to pay for services that allow them to track their child’s location and 26 percent of cell phone owners between the ages of 18 to 24 want mobile social networking applications based on their friend’s locations according to a new report from JupiterResearch "Location-Based Services: Where Are You?"