Robert Story – Productivity

10 best paid executives: women vs. men – Oct. 10, 2006 NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Corporate women made impressive strides in 2006, taking charge at a slew of giant companies, and bringing in big paychecks to boot.The top-earning woman executive is Safra Catz, president and CFO of Oracle (Charts), who took home a cool $26.1 [...]

Google makes video play with YouTube buy | CNET News.com Google has agreed to purchase online video phenomenon YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock, the companies announced Monday. The deal, which had been rumored for days, will dramatically improve Google’s video-sharing service with one of the Internet’s hottest properties in YouTube, which allows Net users [...]

Google Puts Lid on New Products – Los Angeles Times Realizing that its myriad services are confusing users, it will focus on refining what it has. By Chris Gaither, Times Staff Writer October 6, 2006MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In another sign of Google Inc.’s growth from start-up to corporate behemoth, the company’s top executives said [...]

The other Google search site | News.blog | CNET News.com October 3, 2006 4:51 PM PDTGoogle has created a search site without any Google branding to test new features. The site, SearchMash, has a simple blue and white interface with a search bar and an option to click on “popular searches.” Once keywords are entered, [...]

Google in Talks To Buy YouTube For $1.6 Billion – WSJ.com Deal Could Put Search Giant In Top Spot for Online Video; A Front Door for Web Visits By KEVIN J. DELANEY October 7, 2006; Page A1The latest prize in the great Internet land grab, online-video company YouTube Inc., could soon be snapped up by [...]

Survey: Telecommuting now more the rule, not the exception October 05, 2006 (Computerworld) — Most companies now offer workers the option to work from home, satellite offices and other locations, according to a survey conducted by Philadelphia-based Yoh Services LLC, a provider of talent and outsourcing services.The survey also found that most human resources managers [...]

Study: You can lower the odds of being outsourced – Computerworld Based on interviews with 96 SIM members, all of them IT managers at firms ranging from small companies to multinational enterprises, the study found that business skills accounted for five of the 10 attributes organizations want from their in-house staffers over the next three [...]

Google Finance – Google Finance is an early beta product that offers a broad range of information about North American stocks, mutual funds and public and private companies along with charts, news and fundamental financial data.

H-1B visa cap increase sought in immigration bill – Computerworld MARCH 15, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) – A wide-ranging immigration-reform bill now being debated by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee would, if passed and signed into law, increase the H-1B visa cap from 65,000 to 115,000 and ease the permanent residency process for some foreign nationals with [...]