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A giant sucking sound: Seattle startup CEOs say Amazon is sucking up all of the tech talent in the city. It’s tough enough to do a startup, let alone when you’re competing for talent against a juggernaut like Amazon.com. I’ve … Continue reading →

Recruitment can mean different things to different people. There is a plethora of different business models within the staffing industry, so I thought it might be a good idea to define what I believe good recruitment is. This will perhaps … Continue reading →

High-tech startup companies are trying to add employees but are having difficulty finding qualified candidates, a new survey shows. While 87 percent of technology startups are hiring, an equal number are struggling to find enough people with the skills they … Continue reading →

Investor Jon Soberg says that ‘Good Enough is the Enemy of Great’ and that B players and C players are far worse than D’s and F’s. In fact, in my experience, B players are the worst hires you can make. … Continue reading →

Some 2,277 private tech companies were acquired in 2012, according to a recent report by M&A database CB Insights. For the 331 startups, which disclosed valuations and financials of the deals, acquirers paid $46.8 billion. More than 50% of the … Continue reading →

There is so much happening on the Internet during a year that it’s impossible to capture it all in a blog post, but we’re going to give it a shot anyway. How many emails were sent during 2012? How many … Continue reading →

This could be the most important video so far this year 2013, though it shouldn’t come as a surprise. Technological advances, especially robotics, are revolutionizing the workplace, but not necessarily creating jobs. Steve Kroft from CBS 60 Minutes reports. Continue … Continue reading →

When you’ve secured a job offer, you may believe your search is over. But you’re not done yet. After you receive an offer, your employer may make a counteroffer. HR and recruitment experts say that accepting a counteroffer is career … Continue reading →

Goodbye Alyssa, we’re going to miss you a lot!! Should you decide to come back after school is finished, we’d be happy to have you back here at Verticalmove, Inc. Here are some pictures of the Seattle team visiting the … Continue reading →

Facebook’s debut is modest, high volumes cause problems. Facebook Inc shares rose less than expected on their first day of trade on Friday and huge order volume caused technical problems that marred the coming out party of the No. 1 … Continue reading →

U.S. companies in March posted the highest number of job openings in nearly four years, a sign that hiring could strengthen in the coming months after slowing this spring. The Labor Department said Tuesday that employers advertised 3.74 million job … Continue reading →

Splunk, an enterprise data company, will be making its debut on the public markets this morning after pricing its IPO at $17.00 per share (this is up from the range of $11 to $13 per share). At this price, Splunk … Continue reading →

Microsoft has spun off a subsidiary just to deal with its work on open source software and standards. The new company is called Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., and it will be run by Microsoft’s long-term open source advocate, Jean Paoli. … Continue reading →

The residential real estate bubble isn’t the only real estate challenge facing startups in Silicon Valley. Office space within the city limits is becoming more scarce by the day as tech companies continue their aggressive growth. Relief is on the … Continue reading →

Ok, I relent. Everyone wants to know why I left and answering individually isn’t scaling so here it is, laid out in its long form. Read a little (I get to the punch line in the 3rd paragraph) or read … Continue reading →

After Kara Swisher broke the news that Yahoo was selling off its ad tech platforms, we decided to call around to a few industry sources and see what they were hearing. They confirmed Swisher’s report. Yahoo is trying to unload … Continue reading →

Some 14 million new jobs will be created by 2015 thanks to cloud computing, a new study predicts. Buthalf of these jobs will be in India and China. Still, 1.2 million new “cloud-enabled” jobs will be created in the U.S. … Continue reading →

Rarely a day goes by without news of a new tech company opening up in the Bay Area, or an established one expanding its footprint in the city and increasing its staff. Salesforce.com said last week that its hiring needs … Continue reading →

The number of smartphones being used around the world is expected to grow to 1 billion by 2016, with about 350 million of those being used for work. Forrester Research made those projections in a study released on Monday and … Continue reading →

At long last, the Holy Grail of Internet IPOs is here. Facebook filed Wednesday to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering. In 2011, Facebook earned $1 billion on sales of $3.7 billion. As of December 31, Facebook had … Continue reading →

The value of the web economy in G20 countries will nearly double by 2016, according to Boston Consulting Group. Driving the spurt from $2.3tn (£1.5tn) to $4.2tn (£2.7tn) will be the rapid rise of mobile internet access. The study, supported … Continue reading →

Jerry Yang is exiting the Yahoo! Inc (YHOO). board and its management team, the latest casualty of an overhaul that led to the ouster of Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz and left the company in search of strategic options. Yang, … Continue reading →

Amazon’s huge cloud buildup has resulted in the Seattle company creating one of the world’s fastest supercomputers – sort of. According to Wired magazine, Amazon created a virtual supercomputer on its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which ranked 42nd fastest in … Continue reading →

Software engineers appear to be in a good spot as a result of the growth of cloud. Consider the fact that earlier in 2011, CareerCast determined software engineers to be the best job to have in today’s economy, thanks in … Continue reading →

60 seconds on the Internet these things happen. Interesting info-graphic. 13,000+ hours of Music streamed on Pandora.com, 12,000+ Ads posted on Craigslist, 13,000+ iOS Applications downloaded and installed, 600+ new video’s uploaded to Youtube.

2012 promises to be a very busy year in all things digital, but, as with any annum, there will be just a handful of big, memorable trends. Here, I’ve collected five such movements that are likely to make a big … Continue reading →

From tech titans like Zynga, Facebook, Microsoft, Google and Apple, to startups just launching, the battle lines of 2012 will be drawn across the landscape of HTML5. Below are 14 bold predictions for how HTML5 will evolve in 2012. Continue … Continue reading →

These will be the five hardest slots for you (and any start-up) to fill in the new year. The year flew by mostly because it was a very, very busy one. Although the economy continues to face many challenges, the … Continue reading →

On a scale of 1 to 5, workers at Microsoft gave their workplace a 3.4 rating, but CEO Steve Ballmer’s approval rating continues to erode. That’s according to a new Tech Report Card survey from Glassdoor, which has Ballmer’s approval … Continue reading →

Verticalmove, Inc. Seattle (some of us) at our holiday Breakfast. Thanks Alyssa and Anastasia for making this happen. We’ve had a terrific year and look forward to an even better 2012 with the entire team: Jim Beatrice, John Levie, Matthew … Continue reading →

Whether it’s a high-profile tech company like Yahoo!, or a more established conglomerate like GE or Home Depot, large companies have a hard time keeping their best and brightest in house. Recently, GigaOM discussed the troubles at Yahoo! with a … Continue reading →

Business schools and most jobs don’t teach you how important it is to sweat the small stuff. In fact, we’re mostly told the opposite–don’t be a micromanager, don’t be penny wise and pound foolish, don’t miss the forest for the … Continue reading →

Google+ Lead Product Manager Dylan Casey, the guy most famously in charge of the recently launched Google Bar, is leaving Google to join social app Path, the company tells me. Casey, who had been at Google since 2003, will start … Continue reading →

Lots of US cities claim they’re the best place to do a startup. So where are entrepreneurs actually starting companies these days? TechCrunch reader Yuval Baror took a look at CrunchBase to try to answer the question. His most surprising … Continue reading →

If the surveys are correct, 2012 could go down in history as the year of corporate musical chairs. The results of recent studies conducted by Gallup, Mercer, and Right Management are alarming. Despite–or perhaps because of–the economic turmoil, discontent among … Continue reading →

Microsoft is dropping its ‘Dryad’ big-data processing work and focusing, instead, on developing a Windows Azure and Windows Server implementation of Hadoop. Continue Reading via ZDNET…

Lower Manhattan’s 60 Hudson Street is one of the world’s most concentrated hubs of Internet connectivity. This short documentary peeks inside, offering a glimpse of the massive material infrastructure that makes the Internet possible. Featuring interviews with Stephen Graham, Saskia … Continue reading →

Why doesn’t digital talent want to work at your company? It’s not because you’re a consumer packaged goods company, rather than Google. It’s not because you’re in Ohio instead of Silicon Valley. It’s not because your salaries are too low, … Continue reading →

What Kinds Of Silicon Valley Companies Are Dying Right Now? The tech market has booms and busts, but one thing stays constant: most startups don’t succeed. That means that whatever the market is doing, there’s a more or less constant … Continue reading →

Yahoo has cost its shareholders so much money that a buyer would now be able take over the most-visited U.S. Web portal for less than the value of its stakes in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Yahoo Japan Corp. Yahoo … Continue reading →

The tech sector is fueling a job boom that stands in stark contrast to the malaise of the general job market. The nationwide unemployment rate ticked up to 9.2 percent in June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. At … Continue reading →

For people who spend most of their days within a few blocks of tech start-up epicenters such as South Park in San Francisco, University Avenue in Palo Alto or the Flatiron district in New York, last week’s jobs report must … Continue reading →

Competition for tech workers continues to heat up, according to the latest survey from Dice.com that says the surge in hiring has pushed the tech unemployment rate below 4 percent in the U.S. (The overall U.S. jobless rate is 9.1 … Continue reading →

“Even though it flies in the face of conventional wisdom, I’m advocating that all my portfolio companies hire recruiters when they are trying to fill senior or key positions. Immediately.” The talent market has gotten as competitive and aggressive as … Continue reading →

(Reuters) – LinkedIn Corp said it would offer 7.84 million shares in its initial public offering, which could value the company at over $3 billion at the high end of its offering price range. The company, which owns LinkedIn — … Continue reading →

Facebook has opened its first energy efficient data center in Prineville, Oregon. Pictures and information about the Open Compute Project are available. “And it’s now handling millions of status updates,” Tom Furlong, Facebook’s director of site operations, told the crowd, … Continue reading →

It’s been announced that Jonathan Heiliger, the VP of Technical Architecture for Facebook, is leaving the company at the end of this summer. Heiliger has been the public face for the Open Compute Project, which reveals the Server and Data … Continue reading →

It looks like social bookmarking site Delicious will have a healthy afterlife. Yahoo, which acquired the site in 2005, just announced that Delicious has been sold to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Hurley and Chen are apparently incorporating … Continue reading →

Eighty-three percent of startups said they are likely to hire in 2011, according to the Startup Outlook 2011 [PDF] report released Friday by investment firm Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The percentage represents a 10% jump over last year, when 73% … Continue reading →

Activity on the hiring front is increasing in the Bay Area.  Despite still record high unemployment rates, the tech industry in the valley is still going strong! After years of gloom, college students are flocking to campus job fairs this … Continue reading →

NEW YORK (AP) — Major websites including Foursquare and Reddit crashed or suffered slowdowns Thursday after technical problems rattled Amazon.com’s widely used Web servers, frustrating millions of people who couldn’t access their favorite sites. Interesting, though, Verticalmove’s systems are all … Continue reading →

Verticalmove, Inc. is immediately searching for a Director, B2B Platform Engineer for a leading consumer facing dot-com in the Scottsdale, AZ area (relocation assistance available). The client is Profitable. 1,600% annual customer growth. $1.33 matching for each $1.00 invested in … Continue reading →

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 6:00 PM the Seattle Technical Forum will be discussing Predictions of Mobile Computing at the Bellevue City Hall (Bellevue, WA). They are expecting 130+ people from local IT companies, organizations and startups to attend, which … Continue reading →

The unemployment rate fell in two-thirds of the nation’s states last month, the latest evidence that the strengthening economy is encouraging many employers to boost hiring. The Labor Department said Tuesday that the unemployment rate dropped in 34 states in … Continue reading →

Zillow Inc., the online real-estate information service, filed papers on Monday for a proposed initial public offering that is expected to raise as much as $51.8 million, becoming the latest Internet firm to test investors’ appetite for its shares.

Verticalmove is building a revolutionary new location aware (mobile) applications company. In 2010 they were named as having one of the top 10 Mobile Applications, considered one of the worlds top companies in Retail aside Apple, Groupon and Amazon. Within the … Continue reading →

We’re building a new ‘Touch Social/Mobile’ team aimed at building applications upon tablet devices such as iPad, Motorola Xoom and Samsung for a $2 billion-dollar company that is considered to be 4th fastest growing company in the world – period. … Continue reading →

If your business leverages temporary staff (Independent Contractors) you might have misclassified workers on staff and you should know that the IRS is cracking down. The New York Times claim that the Federal Government has started a program to audit … Continue reading →

Verticalmove, Inc. is launching it’s new web presence, built from the ground up with open-source CMS and CRM systems deployed on Amazon.com’s AWS cloud-computing platform. Candidates now can search for positions within client companies by drilling down with various criteria. … Continue reading →