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TC50: Job Seekers Pay LocalBacon To Apply For Jobs (And That Might Just Work)

by Robin Wauters on September 14, 2009
As an employer, chances are you use sites like Craigslist or Monster.com to try and get the best candidates for vacant spots. If that’s indeed your modus operandi for recruitment, than you’re probably also used to receiving bad or incomplete resumes, applications from totally unqualified persons or [...]

TC50: Yext Offers Local Businesses A Smart Inbox For Phone Calls

by Robin Wauters on September 14, 2009

Yext, a popular local business search engine that for some reason managed to stay under the radar so far, is launching a new product dubbed Yext Calls at the TechCrunch50 event today that’s bound to raise some eyebrows.
Local businesses can use the Yext Calls software to process [...]

New iPod Nano and iPod Touch announced

Much of all what we predicted about the new iPods in our earlier post has come out to be true, except for the rumor that claimed that iPod Touch would get a camera module.

Though we are pleased to see that Apple has made a fine improvement to the iPod Nano and its something that makes [...]

Apple slashes iPod prices up to $120

Source:  http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/09/09/apple-slashes-ipod-prices-up-to-120/
Reading the above article, you’ll know that iPod has lowered the prices on some of their iPods and planning to add more functions to the future versions like a camera. I think it would be really cool for the iPod nano to have a camera, as well as the iPod touch.
I’m amazed by how [...]

Apple App Store vs. Nokia Ovi Store - A Quick And Dirty Comparison

When Nokia launched its Ovi Store for mobile applications a month ago, it was clear that - despite its less than stellar launch - it would be a mistake to simply dismiss the Finnish mobile juggernaut’s efforts as meaningless. The company may be struggling to stay relevant on the software and services side, but with [...]

Google becomes world’s most valuable brand

After replacing the word ’search’ completely from the minds of all almost all the internet users, Google is now the World’s most valuable brand at a whooping $100bn brand value. Millward Brown, a marketing research company, crowned Google at the top position on the list of Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands.
The immediate followers of [...]