by JAM | Apr 4, 2012 | Diversity, Health IT, Healthcare, inclusion, jobs, Mobile Health, software development, Tablets, wireless, Workforce Development
Cigna’s chief diversity officer, Rosanna Durruthy, shares her unusual climb to the top by Chris Allsop For diversity professional Rosanna Durruthy, her career (and current position as chief diversity officer with health insurer Cigna) is a classic example of genes...
by JAM | Apr 4, 2012 | DOL, jobs, LISTA, LISTA in the News, Skills, Social Media, software development, Workforce Development
As earlier reports predicted, Yahoo just announced massive layoffs. On Wednesday alone, the beset portal said some 2,000 employees, or 14% of the company, could expect pink slips — and that’s likely just the beginning. “Today’s actions are an important...
by JAM | Apr 2, 2012 | apps, Broadband, DOL, jobs, LISTA, Skills, Social Media, software development, spectrum, wireless, Workforce Development
America’s obsession with various high tech innovations such as the smartphone and tablet, and its “got-to-have-an-app-for-everything†attitude, has led to the demand and creation of about 500,000 apps and apparently, just as many jobs. Last week, TechNet, a...
by JAM | Mar 30, 2012 | Broadband, jobs, LISTA, Skills, software development, spectrum, wireless
Six years after Cisco Systems bought Scientific Atlanta, high-tech giant Cisco says its metro Atlanta acquisition is critical to its efforts to profit off the rising tide of video streaming around the globe. Cisco has “a huge commitment to video,†John Chambers,...
by JAM | Feb 15, 2012 | apps, jobs, LISTA, LISTA in the News, Skills, software development, Workforce Development
TechNet, the bipartisan policy and political network of technology CEOs that promotes the growth of the innovation economy, today released a new study showing that there are now roughly 466,000 jobs in the “App Economy†in the United States, up from zero in 2007....
