Archive for the 'Employee' Category

How to design a system that everybody hates

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

The wrong way to design a POS system is quite easy: don’t ask questions, add clutter, keep choices confusing… but with that attitude, you could mess up anything, says Scoresby Interactive’s Kevin Scoresby. Commentary–Over the past couple of years, I?ve had a chance to interview many cashiers and…
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0 comments | Kevin Scoresby, design, point of sale, Cashier, Customer, Employee, Point-of-sale, Sales |

Yahoos fear loss of fun-loving culture

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

While some employees see Microsoft’s bid as a positive development, they worry a merger would cool Yahoo’s free-spirited atmosphere. Will Yahoos’ yodels be silenced? Yahoo employees fretted on Friday that their fun-loving culture, summed up by early company ads featuring a cowboy yodel, could get quashed by…
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0 comments | Entrepreneurship, Yahoo! Inc., Employee, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate & legal, Microsoft Corp., Investment, Finance, Management, Reuters |

From the Googleplex to the wine bar

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

While some ex-Google employees are still grinding away as angel investors and entrepreneurs in the tech industry, it’s occurred to some others that they’re wealthy enough to do whatever they want. Sometimes, it’s not easy to leave the Googleplex. Even for the many millionaires among the…
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0 comments | Senkut, IPO, Financial Services, Wine, Employee, Google Inc., Stefanie Olsen, Corporate & legal |