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New App, JobFlare, Looks To Sharpen Your Brain--And Maybe Get You A Job

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According to Criteria, which has been offering up pre-employment testing services to employers since 2006, its new cam allows job seekers to play a set of six, 90-second brain games, which it says are "scientifically crafted" to test key talents and cognitive abilities.

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Spokeo Hits 150 Employees, Reports Growth

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Spokeo, which has been around since 2006, lets users search for people using their name, phone number, email address, or usernames; the company says its service is aimed at helping people reconnect with friends and family they have lost touch with. Financials were not released by the privately held firm.

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Spokeo Optimizes People Search For Your Smartphone

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The Pasadena-based company said the update is part of an overall effort to refresh the look and feel of its search product, which lets people find people by name, email, and phone. Spokeo''s founders came out of Stanford, and was founded back in 2006. READ MORE>>. spokeo people search smartphone mobile'

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Mr. Chow for 6 Please

Eric Greenspan

Back in 2006, my company was awarded Services Company of the Year by the Technology Council of Southern California. He promised to email us the pic. We wanted to celebrate. I’d never been to Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills and with all the paparazzi out front, I thought I may never. Well, actually, years later I finally paid it off.

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Userplane: We're Not Dead Yet

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Santa Monica-based Userplane , which develops web widgets used by other online community sites, including chat and other collaboration applications, told its users today in an email that the firm's future "remains bright." Userplane was acquired by AOL in 2006. READ MORE>>.

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5 Keys to Ensuring Credibility, Trust, and Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

All of us are struggling to keep up in this age of technological acceleration, where we learn every day that we can’t trust links in our email, marketing guarantees, or phone requests from people we don’t know. I summarize the key elements of the transformation as follows: Customers are seeking control in a run-away world.

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Why You Should Put Yourself Out There and Try New Products

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In 2006 I started using Facebook and most of my friends & colleagues thought I was strange. And honestly I love technology products and if you don’t try the newest stuff you’ll wake up an old person emailing from your Hotmail account with links to MapQuest over your dial-up AOL plan. In 2008 I started VC blogging. Stay young.

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