At its f8 conference in April, Facebook launched a FbStart, a new program aimed to help startups grow by offering free Facebook advertising and free access to tools for product testing, recruiting and more with a value as high $30,000. Though the program was originally only offered to developers who attended f8, Facebook’s developer conference,… Continue reading Now All Developers Can Apply for $30K Worth of Free Growth Tools from Facebook’s FbStart Program
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Jobr Wants to Be Like Tinder for Finding Jobs
Finding a job can be almost as hard as finding love. This is what inspired the creators at Jobr to develop a dating service-like app that makes it easier to find a job. Using an interface similar to that of the matchmaking app Tinder, Jobr connects job seekers and recruiters in a simple and game-like… Continue reading Jobr Wants to Be Like Tinder for Finding Jobs
Apple Hires New Biomedical Experts to Focus on Medical Technology
Apple is taking its talents to the medical world with new hires from the biomedical field. Over the past year, Apple has added several accomplished medical professionals to its team to begin integrating medical technology innovations into its products. At least six biomedical experts have been hired according to LinkedIn profile job changes and updates.… Continue reading Apple Hires New Biomedical Experts to Focus on Medical Technology
Quora Raises $80 Million To Drive Growth and Protect Independence
While people frequently turn to Wikipedia and Google Search to answer their questions, they may be overlooking a website specifically designed to answer those questions. Question-and-answer website Quora boasts that it is actually “your best source of knowledge” because it lets you ask any question and get real answers from people with first-hand experience. With… Continue reading Quora Raises $80 Million To Drive Growth and Protect Independence
Bootstrapped Startup Imgur Signs With First Investors, Including Reddit
After five years of bootstrapping its way to profitability, Imgur announced today a $40 million funding round raised through Andreessen Horowitz. The funding will go toward product development, growing Imgur internally and growing Imgur’s user base worldwide. Reddit, the community for which Imgur was originally built, contributed to the round. Imgur was created in 2009… Continue reading Bootstrapped Startup Imgur Signs With First Investors, Including Reddit
Mark Zuckerberg Slashes His Salary to $1
As the one of the richest people in the world with an overall wealth of $27 billion, CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg only earned one dollar in annual salary in 2013. He joins a group of extremely wealthy, important people in the tech world who slashed their salaries to one dollar a year after becoming… Continue reading Mark Zuckerberg Slashes His Salary to $1
Mark Zuckerberg’s Social Media Valuations [COMIC]
Do you think Facebook paid a bit too much for the likes of Instagram ($1 billion), WhatsApp ($19 billion) and Oculus VR ($2 billion)? Comic by The Joy of Tech
Business Lessons To Be Learned from The Walking Dead Season 4
So here we are at the end of season 4 of AMC’s critically acclaimed The Walking Dead. This season did contain the standard blood and gore that comes with fighting zombies (or ‘walkers’ as they’re known on the show), but it also spent a lot of time showing the psychological toll that years of disappointment… Continue reading Business Lessons To Be Learned from The Walking Dead Season 4
