Want to get paid to build the metaverse? These tech firms — along with Nike and KPMG —are hiring Seven companies, including Nike, Roblox, and Amazon, are hiring for new metaverse-related projects, just as Facebook/Meta and Microsoft announce metaverses of their own, according to Thinknum data. Ivan De Luce 11.4.21 3:19 PM Tech
Western Union job openings dropped to near-zero overnight. Here's the graph. Western Union experiencing uneven growth and functional limits to sustaining parts of its business model. Matthew Broberg-Moffitt 4.7.20 6:18 PM Markets
Tesla Motors is hiring more than ever despite "dumb" coronavirus panic Who cares about pandemics when you need to hire engineers and designers? Joshua Fruhlinger 3.11.20 7:09 PM Tech
The curious story of how CUSIP numbers became a Wall Street battleground CUSIP numbers are like a Dewey Decimal System for stocks and bonds. They’re also a source of illegal monopoly power, according to investor lawsuits. Doug Bailey 3.25.22 4:51 PM Markets
Amazon has added more than 80,000 employees in the past year More than 200 people have added Amazon as their employer on LinkedIn every day for the past year. Joshua Fruhlinger 11.1.19 6:52 PM Tech
Here's why Databricks is one of the fastest growing big-data startups Databricks is an oft-mentioned startup that recently made the LinkedIn Top Startups of 2019 list. The big-data company has been gaining steam, both in terms of hiring activity and workforce size, since 2018. Jared Russo 9.24.19 4:29 PM Tech
Uber cut hiring by 18% a month before layoffs A month before laying off 435 engineers and product managers, Uber was already cutting hiring in those divisions. Joshua Fruhlinger 9.11.19 3:13 PM Innovation
No one knows who’s on the hook if a DAO gets sued Believers say DAOs are the future of work, but it’s not clear who gets held accountable if something goes wrong. Doug Bailey 3.16.22 4:37 PM Crypto