Gearing Up
Allbritton Communications announced that WJLA-TV (Washington, D.C.) will
offer free Internet service through a partnership with 1stUp.com, a CMGI,
Inc. company. Viewers can download the application from its website. In
exchange, consumers keep a navigation bar on their screens during the free
online session that presents advertisements and links.
icPlanet, a
new employment site for corporate hiring managers and personnel agencies to
find independent contractors, secured more than $8 million in venture
capital and private financing. Its executive management team will be led by
Douglas Carlston, founder and former CEO of Broderbund Software.
Professional employee organizations TeamStaff, Inc.
has engaged Donald & Company Securities, of New York to assist it in
accelerating the company's growth.
Check Out The Competition
WetFeet's
Resume Review Corner offers its users the chance to get personal advice
on their resumes from real corporate recruiters.
NuAspect.com is
a job-bid marketplace where programmers, from any location, can search for and
select specific modules to code and then post a bid for the total cost and
time of delivering the code for that module.
Outsourcing As A First Choice
In a recently released report, Infrastructure/Facility Outsourcing,
the Yankee
Group reviews the issue of outsourcing the construction of wireless
networks by the wireless operators and the impact it will have on the wireless
industry.
New SEC Rule Opens Up Trading
The Securities and
Exchange Commission unanimously approved a rule that gives all
regulated stock exchanges, like Nasdaq and other non-NYSE members, full
access to trading Big Board stocks by expanding the Intermarket Trading
System. The SEC also voted to send out for public comment a proposal that
would would reduce the one-day barrier to immediately after the first trade
in an IPO stock is reported on the listed exchange.
Gets To Brag
Human Resource Executive Magazine names Recruitsoft among
the top 10 HR products of the year.
Obsolescence 101
Remember the Town Blacksmith? Of course you don't. Remember Internet
Recruiting sites? You may not within a few years. John Sumser ponders
the fate of today's
smithies in the ERN.
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