“How can the U.S. dig itself out of the current job drought?” asks Michael Mandel in WHERE THE JOBS ARE: The APP Economy (Choosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor to follow) Government policy can temporarily boost employment. The ultimate answer, though, is innovation: The creation of new goods and services that spur the growth of new industries … Continue reading
JOHN BIGGS spoke to a person inside The Daily who held a $40,000 reporter position for the now shuttered “daily iPad newspaper.” While not completely blindsided, they had little inkling of what was going on inside the paper but there was always an undercurrent of doubt. “When the layoffs happened in the summer,” the said. … Continue reading
Based on a study by Analysis Group in February 2012, Apple has directly or indirectly created 307,250 U.S. jobs.* These jobs — spread across all 50 states — include thousands of jobs in numerous industries, from the people who create components for our products to the people who build the planes and trucks that carry … Continue reading
The Daily, a tablet-only publication introduced with much fanfare last year by Rupert Murdoch of the News Corporation and the Apple executive Eddy Cue, said Tuesday it would lay off almost one-third of its 170 full-time staff members. The news, first reported by All Things Digital, comes as the News Corporation prepares to split its … Continue reading
Apple is Supporting 514,000 U.S. Jobs according to Apple itself. You can read the argument @ Apple. “Apple has made its first attempt to quantify how many American jobs can be credited to the sale of its iPads and other products, a group that includes the Apple engineers who design the devices and the drivers who … Continue reading
Apple’s Hiring Automotive Engineers, Is An ‘iCar’ Infotainment System Coming? Apple is once again proving they’re still the company Steve Jobs built. After years of saying “meh” to working with automakers on tighter integration of Apple products into automotive infotainment systems, there’s evidence Apple is now hiring people to build a system for them that’ll … Continue reading
It’s hardly news that young adults are the most digitally connected, but now Nielsen has come up with a new name for this group based on their common behaviors: “Generation C.” The C stands for “connected,” and the group comprises Americans between 18 and 34 — who are defined by their digital connectivity, Nielsen and … Continue reading
Apple’s top manufacturer in China, Foxconn Technology, is having no problems luring fresh workers to churn out ever more gadgets, despite the firm’s reputation as a tough employer that has put it under a thorough probe into its labor practices. On a smoggy day in a gritty industrial suburb of Shenzhen, thousands of job seekers, … Continue reading