Donald Sears

If you hadn’t heard, earlier this month the CEO of Twitter, Evan Williams, made a brave move and promoted his COO to the CEO position, and moved himself to head of product strategy. The former COO, Dick Costolo, has been a CEO several times, and has had success, so it appeared to be a logical […]

The last three years have seen outsourcing as an expense of IT operating budgets rise from less than 4 percent in 2008 to over 7 percent in 2010, according to a Computer Economics (CE) study dubbed “IT Outsourcing Statistics 2010/2011.” That’s good news if you work for an outsourcing services provider. But what kind of […]

If you work in large enterprise, your salary has likely gone up a little. According to management consulting firm Janco Associates who specialize in IT services and put out a mid-year survey on IT salaries, enterprise pay has risen from $82,475 to $81,652 at the mean. Salaries at mid-size companies have not fared as well […]

Twenty-five of the top 100 jobs in the U.S. are in IT, according to rankings put out by CNNMoney and Payscale.com. These rankings look at two major factors: Excellent pay and prospects for growth. Coming in at number 1 is software architect; Closer to the bottom of the list is geographic information systems analyst at […]

Layoffs in the U.S. are at their lowest levels since April 2008, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Manufacturing is still the largest industry affected by layoffs, but numbers are down for 13 of the 19 major industries the BLS tracks. Professional and technical services saw major […]

The starting salaries of engineering and computer science degrees top those of liberal arts majors by a margin of $22,000 from the top of the scale to the bottom, according to a Wall Street Journal/PayScale.com study that interviewed 11,000 workers. These workers graduated college between 1999 and 2010 with adjustments made for inflation. At the […]

Whether you buy in to the skills shortage in technology, there are some real economic forces at play that are limiting many people’s ability to easily pick up and move to a new location. How easy it to sell a house right now and move to a new city? Not very. Chicago may be one […]

It’s becoming more and more difficult for the IT layperson to survive in an industry that is continuously using faster and more advanced technology to automate functions that would have been a person’s sole job only a few years ago. What’s a job seeker to do in an increasingly commodity-driven IT world? Advice from one […]

The creator of Java, James Gosling, left Oracle back in April after the software giant acquired Sun Microsystems. Gosling announced his departure from the company on a blog post, but left his reasons confidential and somewhat mysterious. But when eWEEK’s Darryl Taft interviewed Gosling this past month, the gloves came off and the former-Sun fellow […]

Venture capital may not be flowing as it once did in San Diego, but activity in technology and life sciences start ups is still lively. In the second quarter of 2010, 64 new startups launched which is an 84 percent increase from the first quarter, according to data released by Connect–a San Diego trade group […]