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Column: The poaching clause that sounds like a closed shop
So it looks as if Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, Walt Disney and Pixar are going to have to face the prospect of a trial in a class action lawsuit claiming they conspired not to poach each other's staff, writes Billy MacInnes. According to Reuters, a ... News
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OpenStack not yet a mature competitor, says VMware CEO
VMware CEO Paul Maritz has dismissed Rackspace's OpenStack cloud computing project as "relatively immature" and not yet a competitive threat to the vSphere environment, saying that VMware's greater, nearer-term challenge will come from Micr... News
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In-depth: HMRC goes real time
Soon to be compulsory, employers need to know about Real Time Information (RTI), a project launched by the government some 18 months ago to overhaul the way PAYE is run in the UK, writes Jason Piper. The PAYE system has been with us since 1944 havin... News
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Customer experience marketing is in the cloud of confusion
Customers. Let's be honest, they're an expensive pain in the assets. You can never do enough for them so who'd blame you if you took a leaf out of one famous telco's book and didn't bother? News
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Mid-sized firms losing out on talent to competition
Mid-sized firms are struggling to secure the top talent as they miss out on some of the most attractive staff to start-ups or larger rivals prepared to give bigger salaries. There has been plenty of noise made about the attempts to rival Silicon Val... News
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Industry job applications hit new high
Specialist IT recruitment agency CV Screen has reported a surge in applicants for IT jobs, with an average of 194 applications per advertised vacany during the last 12 months, suggesting that confidence in the sector was bouncing back. CV Screen mana... News
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Notion to back cloud firms with $150m investment fund
Investment specialist Notion Capital has unveiled plans to invest up to $150m in cloud computing and Software as a service (SaaS) companies in the UK and Europe. The venture capitalist has already invested $50m in 10 firms so far, including Brightpe... News
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Gartner survey reveals CEOs will increase IT investment
According to a new Gartner CEO survey 85% percent of CEOsbelieve their enterprises will be impacted by an economic downturn in 2012, writes Linda Endersby. Despite this cautionary feel most CEOs will increase IT investment, but the aaalyst house has ... News
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IT market leading jobs recovery
The IT market is leading the recovery in employment opportunities with the number of permanent vacancies in the sector hitting an eight year high. The latest Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG jobs survey indicated that the re... News
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Axing ICT teaching could worsen skills gap
With the deadline looming for responses to the government's proposal to axe ICT from the school curriculum one of the industry skills groups has called for a rethink. The public consultation over the changes to the way computer skills are taught in s... News