Understandably, there is some point in life where getting paid to stuff your face with french fries might sound like a desirable thing. For most people, this point quickly passes. A former professional frozen food taster tells all in a gross and engrossing interview at The Billfold.
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There are rumors that Christian Bale would play Steve Jobs in the good Jobs movie—written by Aaron Sorkin. But who can play the awesome Steve Wozniak? He’s one of my personal heroes and I’m having a hard time imagining it. So I asked him about his opinion. Here’s his reply:
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Do you like Wikipedia? Are you a fan of obscenely wealthy educational institutions with unspeakable power? Then you’ll love the job listing that just went up at Harvard. They’re hiring a Wikipedian-in-Residence. It pays by the hour.
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Tech jobs are often hard, thankless, and generally unpleasant—but rarely do you see a company tell you, straight up, it’s going to be miserable. The next systems admin for geeky web comic Penny Arcade certainly has their work cut out of them.
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The Wall Street Journal goes behind the scenes today at a very stressful job interview for the coolest job in the world: Designer at Lego world headquarters in Billund, Denmark.
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Robots are stealing our jobs. Again. In fact, they’ve been stealing our jobs in one way or another since the dawn of the industrial revolution.
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It’s not as if Toshiba’s TV division has been totally silent recently, but it apparently hasn’t been making enough noise to justify the continued employment of its full, 6,000-strong workforce. Although it’s not quite ready to give up, the Japanese manufacturer is scaling back its TV operation heavily: losing half of its staff globally and closing two of its three TV factories in favor of more outsourced production. The cuts are intended help Toshiba meet its target of $101 million in cost savings and the company hopes its TV division will return to profitability this year — but as you’d expect, at a much smaller scale than it once had.
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Source: Reuters
How many of you are looking forward to the jOBS biopic for the longest time already? We do know that since April last year, Ashton Kutcher was the one who managed to land the role of the late Steve Jobs in an upcoming biopic, where we reported that he suffered from pancreas problems while following Steve Jobs’ diet later on. In fact, early this year, the first clip from the jOBS biopic was released to much fanfare, and right now after the movie has been released, the big question would be this – how well did it do at the box office?
Having opened across 2,381 screens this weekend, it raked in an estimated $6.7 million. According to the movie’s distributor, Open Road Films, they were hoping to shift around $8 million to $9 million in tickets for the corresponding period, but failed to do so. Perhaps it had something to do with Steve Wozniak criticizing the truthfulness of the story? So far, jOBS picked up an aggregate score of 25% on Rotten Tomatoes, but chances are it will be able to recoup its budget og $12 million and turn a small profit after taking into consideration DVD sales and TV rights. Would you watch this on the big screen or wait for it to be available on DVD?
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Apple is apparently stepping up its China operations, according to a number of new job postings found on LInkedIn by the Wall Street Journal today. The company has listed nearly 300 openings on the professional social networking site, which include key senior positions related to environmental program management.
Apple has been dinged by environmental and labor watchdog groups for its supply partners’ transgressions in both areas, and it consistently responds saying it will look into and improve these issues. Apple is also looking to hire more retail presence, and increased retail operations has really helped push product line growth in the past, for devices like the iPhone and iPad especially.
But Apple’s presence in China has been declining, at least relative to other smartphone makers. It was down to 5 percent share in Q2 this year, earning it a seventh place overall ranking, after owning just under 10 percent of the market a year previous, the WSJ points out. And its revenue during its fiscal Q3 this year dropped 43 percent in China sequentially, and 14 percent year over year.
Part of the problems Apple faces in the country might also be attributable to issues that arose between Chinese state media agencies and the company earlier this year. As Forbes put it, for all intents and purposes it looked as though China was potentially “declaring war” on Apple, as Forbes put it in an article at the time.
It’s no secret that China prefers home-grown businesses to those who come in from the outside. The Chinese government is even collaborating with UK-based Canonical to build a version of Ubuntu that’s a native, China-first OS, which, while it employs foreign expertise, is ultimately about weaning its citizenry off of more popular and U.S.-controlled operating systems.
Apple setting down deeper roots and putting more investment on the ground in China makes a lot of sense if it wants to avoid being locked out by Beijing. Combine that with being closer to a very key customer base, as well as having more direct oversight when it comes to supply partners, and a hiring surge in China is the most natural thing in the world for the Mac maker.
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