| Apple going strong online, though holiday Web store traffic was flat | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:17:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | Steve Jobs and Apple (AAPL) are doing well with their online strategy, according to new numbers released by Nielsen//Netratings. One possible point of concern: Neilsen says traffic to the Apple Store this holiday season was flat compared to the year before. Details from the research firm are below: .... | |
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| | | Christian Career Network Announces Launch of Online Career Center Connecting Professionals Seeking Jobs in Higher ... | | Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:08:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | (PRWeb) January 10, 2007 -- The Christian Career Network, a national organization providing online job search and placement resources for employment candidates and Christian organizations, have partnered with JobTarget to create a new full-service online career center listing jobs in Higher Education. Employer clients include faith-based institutions such as universities, colleges, seminaries, and theological schools. The web site was launched January 1, 2007 and can be found at http://www.christianuniversityjobs.com. .... | |
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| | | Family Service Center news briefs | | Posted Sunday, November 19, 2006 1:06:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | GED Online is designed to prepare students for academic and personal success through obtaining a Florida high school diploma. Distance learning courses such as GED Online are highly successful for people who find it difficult to meet at a particular location on a regular basis. Participants in this course will find the freedom of scheduling to be of value. Please be advised that a distance learning course requires as much time on the Internet as a face-to-face course. If registered in the GED Online course, you will be accepted into a 21-day probation period during which time your performance will be evaluated. Enrollment is this course is free. The Test of Adult Basic Education is required prior to registration for this course. Call 863-993-1333 to register for TABE testing and to schedule an appointment to meet with the Intake/Placement Specialist and register for the online course.... | |
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| | | Walter Reed to cut 200 jobs, outsource support work | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:37:58 AM by Blog57 Team | | Walter Reed Army Medical Center plans to cut at least 200 jobs early next year in its drawn-out, bitterly contested effort to outsource more work to a private contractor. The army hospital expects to turn over hundreds of jobs to Florida-based IAP Worldwide Services, whose representatives arrived on the hospital's D.C. campus for the first time this week to start the transition. .... | |
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| | | Microsoft to offer TV shows, movies through Xbox Live | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:32:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | REDMOND, Washington -- Microsoft Corp. has teamed up with a handful of Hollywood studios to sell TV shows and movies that can be downloaded through the software maker's Xbox Live online video-game service and beamed straight onto television sets. The company announced last week that beginning Nov. 22, Xbox Live users with the latest console will be able to choose from shows including "South Park," which airs on MTV's Comedy Central, CBS Corp.'s "CSI," and movies including Warner Bros.' "V for Vendetta" and Paramount Pictures' "Mission Impossible III." In addition to CBS, MTV Networks, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Viacom Inc.'s Paramount, Microsoft has signed agreements with Turner Broadcasting System Inc. and Ultimate Fighting Championship, a privately held Las Vegas company that primarily broadcasts pay-per-view fights.... | |
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| | | A Poll From ICIS Jobs, a New Online Recruitment Service Specialising in the Global Chemical Industry, Reveals That 71% | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:16:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | An industry poll conducted by ICIS jobs, a new online recruitment service from ICIS, shows that jobseekers from the global chemical industry are turning to online recruitment services to search for jobs. A massive 71% of respondents to ICIS jobs poll, who intend to seek a job outside their existing company, said they would look online. ICIS jobs has been recently launched as a new online recruitment service from ICIS, the leading information provider to the global chemical and oil industry, as a response to the changing industry recruitment trends. 'ICIS jobs offers job seekers a new route to the industry's top employers', says Kathy Bellamy, ICIS jobs Sales Director. 'Companies such as Lyondell, INEOS, Bayer, Basell and KPMG have all been advertising their latest top positions online with ICIS jobs', she added.... | |
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| | | Rochester Business Journal | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 1:32:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | Most counties in New York still have low percentages of women holding elected office compared with percentage of women in the voting population, states a report issued by the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership at the University of Rochester. The center compared the number of women in local elected offices from 2002 to 2006. The report, “Women Lag as Local Leaders," shows little change statewide but significant progress in Dutchess and Westchester counties and New York City. Women make up 52.7 percent of the state voting population but hold only 17.4 percent of the seats in the 57 county legislatures outside New York City, the report states. That represents an increase of less than 1 percent since 2002. In Albany, Buffalo, Syracuse and New York City, the total number of women serving on city and common councils has increased from 30.2 percent to 31.3 percent.... | |
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| | | Study finds more 'core' jobs being moved offshore | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 7:37:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | Companies are moving more engineering, design and other advanced jobs overseas because they can't find enough talent here, a new Duke University study found. The report, "The Globalization of White-Collar Work," challenges assumptions about offshoring that companies move jobs only to cut costs. And it suggests that offshoring might not hurt U.S. workers. "No longer is offshoring all about moving jobs elsewhere," said the study, which examined 530 companies in the United States and Europe. "Increasingly, it's about sourcing talent everywhere." Doesn't offshoring just affect jobs that require few skills? It did. Companies began by moving manufacturing and work such as credit-card processing to countries with lower costs. They gained more experience and became more willing to move chip design, financial and other work considered "core." Is that bad for workers here? Not according to the report.... | |
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| | | Kodak Posts Eighth Loss on Costs to Eliminate Jobs (Update1) | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:08:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Eastman Kodak Co., the world's largest photography company, posted its eighth straight quarterly loss on costs to eliminate jobs and shut factories and lowered its 2006 revenue forecast. The net loss narrowed to $37 million, or 13 cents a share, from $914 million, or $3.18, a year earlier, when the company had a tax-related writedown. Sales fell 9.8 percent to $3.2 billion, Rochester, New York-based Kodak said today in a statement. The report extends Kodak's longest streak of losses in at least 10 years, and sales trailed analysts' estimates. In moving to digital technology from film, Chief Executive Officer Antonio Perez plans to cut as many as 27,000 jobs, put the health-care imaging unit up for sale and set up printing kiosks in busy locations such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc.... | |
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| | | Polo.com to build distribution center in High Point | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:07:20 PM by Blog57 Team | | Ralph Lauren Media, which owns Polo.com, the online site for the clothing and apparel brand, will lease a $40 million distribution and fulfillment center in High Point at the Kivett Drive Industrial Park, creating up to 250 jobs by 2010. The state and local officials announced the project Thursday afternoon in High Point. High Point is already the home of Polo's distribution center for its clothes that go into retail stores across the country. Polo has about 1.2 million square feet of space in High Point and more than 920 workers. The new site will handle fulfillment and distribution for all online orders, as well as some product customization, such as embroidering, and customer service. Sarah Gallagher, president of Ralph Lauren Media, said High Point was picked after an "exhaustive" six-state review, and that the work force played a large role in the decision.... | |
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