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Postmates To Hire More Engineers As It Expands In The Seattle Area
Delivery // April 22, 2019

Postmates, the delivery startup that competes against Grubhub, among others, and is expected to launch an initial public offering (IPO), is reportedly in hiring mode. The company is boosting the number of engineers it is hiring in and around the Seattle, Washington area. The delivery...

Tencent Gathers Autonomous Tech Team In CA
International // November 07, 2018

Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings is looking to hire self-driving car engineers in Palo Alto, California. “We are building a research team for our Auto-drive Team based in Palo Alto, CA,” the company said in job advertisements on LinkedIn, according to Reuters. There are at...

Stripe Finds C-Suite Anxieties Over Developer Talent
B2B Payments // September 11, 2018

Business owners are frustrated with the processes through which they seek financing, a Federal Reserve survey has found. When it comes to addressing friction in the enterprise, much of the tech community has turned its attention to easing companies’ access to funding. However, a new...

Stripe: Developers Are The Economy’s Most Precious Resource
Personnel // September 07, 2018

If one were looking at the economy a decade ago, Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson told Karen Webster, the biggest challenge businesses faced in growing was clear: access to capital. Ten years ago, the economy was in the midst of the “Great Financial Crisis,” and businesses were reeling from the...

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Stripe: Developers Are The Economy’s Most Precious Resource

September 07, 2018
If one were looking at the economy a decade ago, Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson told Karen Webster, the biggest challenge businesses faced in growing was clear: access to capital. Ten years ago, the economy was in the midst of the “Great Financial Crisis,” and businesses were reeling from the credit crunch that came along for the ride. The last 10 years […]

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IKEA To Take On Amazon With Expanded Smart Home Offerings

October 02, 2019
IKEA is making big moves into the smart home ecosphere with its biggest investment in decades. The company wants to become a player in the field and take on companies like Google and Amazon in the process, according to a report by the Financial Times. IKEA is owned by Inter Ikea, and the company’s chief […]

Postmates To Hire More Engineers As It Expands In The Seattle Area

April 22, 2019
Postmates, the delivery startup that competes against Grubhub, among others, and is expected to launch an initial public offering (IPO), is reportedly in hiring mode. The company is boosting the...

Tencent Gathers Autonomous Tech Team In CA

November 07, 2018
Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings is looking to hire self-driving car engineers in Palo Alto, California. “We are building a research team for our Auto-drive Team based in Palo Alto,...

Amazon Expands Boston Tech Hub; Adds 2,000 New Tech Roles

May 01, 2018
Amazon, announced news on Tuesday (May 1) that it will expand its Boston Tech Hub, creating 2,000 new tech jobs in fields including machine learning, speech science, cloud computing and...