NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Technology professionals enjoyed
their largest annual salary growth since 2008, according to the 2012-2011
Salary Survey from Dice, the leading career site for technology and
engineering professionals. After two straight years of wages remaining
nearly flat, tech professionals on average garnered salary increases of more
than two percent, boosting their average annual wage to $81,327 from $79,384
in 2010.
A more considerable jump was noted in both size of average bonuses, up eight
percent to $8,769, and the number of technology professionals receiving
bonuses: 32 percent in 2011, compared with 29 percent in 2010 and 24 percent
in 2009. The industries most likely to pay out bonuses: Telecom,
Hardware, Banking, Utilities/Energy and Software.
"Finally! Compensation has mustered some momentum, as more and more top
t... (more)
Open standards are a nice idea. And democracy is a great idea too, all
citizens can vote, yet we only have two real parties representing us.
Similarly, I think that standards start out as a good idea, yet over time may
start to become ineffective. For the most part standards committees never
actually complete a standard, and the industry starts working from a "draft."
In the Cloud I think standards should be less important to the subscriber
than the actual capabilities. I recognize that nobody choosing a Cloud
platform "wants" lock-in, or a proprietary system, yet at the same time... (more)
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BeachMint announced today
that it has raised $35 million in financing from leading venture capital
firm, Accel Partners, Goldman Sachs, New World Ventures, Millenium Technology
Value Partners, and NALA. Existing investors participating in the round
include NEA, Trinity Ventures and Scale Ventures.
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This new funding round, which brings BeachMint's total financing to over $75
million, will be used to further BeachMint's global expansion, to bolster its
existing brands... (more)
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Red Hat announced that members of Red Hat’s executive team will host a
press conference that will be broadcast live via webcast from the Red Hat
Summit in Chicago on September 2, 2009 at 12pm EST.
To view the webcast, please visit here.
Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered
in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat
as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for five
consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat
provides high-quality, affordable technology... (more)