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Tech Industry Dream Companies Everyone Wants To Work For
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The top tech companies every web junkie wants to work for, ranked by techies worldwide. Anyone can add their dream jobs to this list, or simply vote on the companies that are already there. From the hot new social networks everyone wants to work at to the software companies with the best perks, these are the tech industry gigs everyone wants.
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Google primarily provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the worlds information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of tools and platforms including its more popular products: Gmail, Maps and YouTube. Most of its Web-based products are free because Google makes its money from highly integrated online advertising through its AdWords and AdSense platforms. Google promotes the idea that advertising should be highly targeted and relevant to users thus providing them with a rich source of information. MoreMost Listed - 2
On February 4th, 2004 Mark Zuckerberg launched The Facebook, a social network that was at the time exclusively for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskowitz and Chris Hughes to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. The original idea for the term Facebook came from Zuckerbergs high school (Phillips Exeter Academy). The Exeter Face Book was passed around to every student as a way for students to get to know their classmates for the following year. It was a physical paper book until Zuckerberg brought it to the internet. MoreControversial - 3
Started by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple has expanded from computer maker to include consumer electronics over the last 30 years, officially changing their name from Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple, Inc. in January 2007.. Among the key offerings from Apples product line are: Pro line laptops (MacBook Pro) and desktops (Mac Pro), consumer line laptops (MacBook) and desktops (iMac), servers (Xserve), software, Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server operating systems, iPod (offered with up to 120 GB of storage with the iPod classic or with web browsing and touch screen controls with the iPod touch), and the iPhone (now available for sale in over 80 countries). More - 4
Departments include books, music, videos, home and garden, electronics, and toys. More - 5
Microsoft
Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. They are a veteran software company, best known for their Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software, but they have also ventured into hardware with consumer products such as the Zune and Xbox. They have made a presence on the Web with the MSN internet portal and Microsoft Live search, but have been widely criticized for their failure to penetrate this market. More - 6
Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006), is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message. The company has been busy adding features to the product like Gmail import and search. They recently launched a new site section called ;Explore for external and third party tools that interact with Twitter and a new visualization tool called Twitter Blocks. The service was started by Obvious Corp, who also started Odeo. In April 2008 Twitter launched Twitter Japan in partnership with Digital Garage. MoreControversial - 7 Flat monthly fee by mail service.
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Intel Corp
Makes devices for personal computer, networking, and communications products. More - 9 Skype is a peer-to-peer Internet telephony service that is free for Skype-to-Skype calls. The service also allows Skype users to call mobiles and landlines, and vice-versa. Skype has special charge plans for non-Skype-to-Skype calls. Skype is expanding from its traditional computer-based calls to mobile applications. Skype was founded by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis who were also the founders of the file sharing application Kazaa and the peer-to-peer television application Joost. Skype is different than other VoIP services in that it uses a peer-to-peer model instead of a server-client model. Its main competitors include GizmoProject, PeerMe and Jajah. More
- 10 Cisco designs and sells hardware, software, networking, and communications technology services. Products are distributed under five brands, namely Cisco, Linksys, WebEx, IronPort, and Scientific Atlanta. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company’s inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. More
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Wikileaks
Publishes and comments on leaked documents alleging government and corporate misconduct. More - 12 Ranker hooks users up to an intuitive interface and a database with over 5 million items, which they can use to easily create and share lists. Lists are also the basis for an extensive system of ratings, reviews and recommendations on Ranker. More
- 13 A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. More
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Adobe Systems Incorporated
Developers of software solutions for graphic designers and professional publishers, products include Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, LiveMotion, InDesign, Studio, FrameMaker, PhotoDeluxe and several others. Also develops third party plugins. More - 15 Dell develops, manufactures, and sells personal computers and other computer-related products including servers, data storage devices, network switches, software, computer peripherals and televisions. MoreControversial
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Blizzard Entertainment
The company creator of Diablo, Warcraft and Starcraft. Offers news, job opportunities, official press releases, and game information. More - 17 Groupon (Group + Coupon) is a spin off of a Chicago-based Internet company called The Point (www.thepoint.com). We leverage The Points existing business model of social change through collective action and apply it to group purchases. We offer one deal for something fun to do or buy at a great discount each day. Businesses in and around Chicago will offer a limited-time only special on Groupon (groupon.thepoint.com) that will be good for 1 day. In order for the deal to become ;active a certain number of users must join and pledge to buy the special offered on Groupon. Once the deal reaches the tipping point, the deal is done and each consumer gets the special. More
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Texas Instruments, Inc
Designer and supplier of digital signal processors. Other products include discrete and integrated circuits, calculators, and digital light processing (DLP) technologies. More - 19 Another company founded in 2004 by two former PayPal employees, Yelp is a local reviews website covering almost 40 states. Users write and read reviews about anything from their favorite hole in the wall restaurant to the worst downtown club. Additionally Yelp offers social networking features: the ability to add friends, groups, events, talk in forums or message contacts. The idea behind this is that users will trust their friends reviews more than others. Yelps competition comes from Citysearch, Insider Pages, Yahoo Local and formerly Judys Book. More
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Foursquare
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- 21 Official website of Lamborghini's US distributor. Details and photos of every model made since the company's inception, some classifieds. More
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- 23 User-generated news links. Votes promote stories to the front page.
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Priceline.com
Buying service for airline tickets, rental car, travel and vacation packages. Features terms of service and contacts. More - 25 Tumblr is a re-envisioning of tumblelogging, a subset of blogging that uses quick, mixed-media posts. The service hopes to do for the tumblelog what services like LiveJournal and Blogger did for the blog. The difference is that its extreme simplicity will make luring users a far easier task than acquiring users for traditional weblogging. Anytime a user sees something interesting online, they can click a quick ;Share on Tumblr bookmarklet that then tumbles the snippet directly. The result is varied string of media ranging links and text to pictures and videos that takes very little time and effort to maintain. There is little to no learning curve involved in using tumblr. Features are intuitive and quick to establish. More
- 26 BuzzFeed is a trends aggregator that uses a web crawler and human editors to find and link to popular stories around the web. More
- 27 The product of MIT, iRobot (IRBT) is the bellwether company for the emerging robot economy. It is the maker and home of the famous archetype military robot, the PackBot and of the worlds first mass-produced consumer vacuum cleaner robot, the Roomba. Founded in 1990 by roboticists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, iRobot designs behavior-based, artificially intelligent robots. iRobots products are designed to navigate through complex and dynamic real-world situations, from maneuvering around furniture to searching abandoned buildings. Their robots are highly sophisticated, yet practical and easy to use. More
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