Deb Perelman

Oh, to be young and a summer intern at Yahoo, where an easily competitive atmosphere is dampened by good management, where Fridays are reserved for community service, where executives have their doors—and ears—open at all times for new ideas. Chen Yang, a Yahoo intern during the summer of 2006, can tell you all about it. […]

Corporate use of virtual worlds such as Second Life needs careful evaluation for security risks, according to technology research and advisory company Gartner. Gartner warned that media hype and general enthusiasm for virtual worlds has overshadowed a realistic assessment of the security and risk-management issues they can expose enterprises to. If a company is especially […]

Outsourcing firms that once focused solely on providing IT and software development services at a lower cost are increasingly reforming themselves as end-to-end IT infrastructure management firms. The latest evidence of this trend came this week with the announcement of yet another outsourcing partnership. Through its $600 million acquisition of the infrastructure management services provider, […]

Sun Microsystems will spend up to $150 million in the remainder of the year in severance pay, the Santa Clara based maker of servers and storage gear said in a SEC regulatory filing Aug. 7. Though Suns filing did not specify the number of cuts, some analysts estimate the slash-count at over 1,000. The company […]

Late last week, the U.S. Congress quietly approved the “America COMPETES Act,” a bipartisan legislative effort to increase investment in basic research and improve the teaching of math, science and engineering. Winning overwhelming support in the House and the Senate, the America COMPETES (Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education and Science) bill […]

Could the days of a gender wage gap be behind us? They sure seem to be for young, college educated women in big cities, finds an analysis of BLS data completed by the Department of Sociology at Queens College in New York, released Aug. 3. Salaries of full-time female employees in their 20s have surpassed […]

The job market lost some luster last month as employers added only 92,000 jobs, the fewest in five months, the Labor Department reported Aug. 3. Employment growth fell off significantly from June, when 126,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy, and lagged notable behind the 135,000 job growth forecasted by economists. Even the unemployment […]

IBM internships: If there is one word that could be used to sum up summer internships at IBM, it would be “competitive.” For some, this is a dream-come-true, for others it is just draining. Just ask Kenneth Bratland, a three-time IBM intern. “When working at [my second IBM internship] there was a little bit more […]

Nary a day goes by that a press release doesn’t cross eWEEK inboxes about the aging of the IT work force, and the potential havoc that will be wrecked upon the workplace when Baby Boomers retire, taking their substantial business knowledge and bulging head count with them. A Forrester study released this week further investigated […]

In what appears to be the first big corporation to create formal guidelines governing employee behavior in virtual worlds, IBM has taken the unusual step of establishing official guidelines for its more than 5,000 employees who inhabit Second Life, the San Francisco 3-D virtual world owned by Linden Lab, and other online universes, reports the […]

In a move that some pundits argue better arms Yahoo for an all-out media war, the internet giant appointed telecom executive Maggie Wilderotter to its Board of Directors July 27. The CEO and Chairmen of Citizens Communication, the second-largest local exchange telephone company in the country, Wilderotter has “more than 25 years of experience in […]

Engineering and business students at an increasing number of public universities are finding themselves faced with a surcharge for their choice of studies, reports the New York Times (registration required) July 29. Confronting rising costs and lagging state support, more and more public universities are choosing to make certain degrees more expensive. The fees are […]