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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 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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Better Business Bureau? For who?

Eric Greenspan

I’ve remained a skeptic about the BBB and as a result of an email I received a couple of weeks ago from them, I have raised the skepticism threat level. So here’s the email I received: Eric, My name is Chad Ratliffe emailing from the Better Business Bureau. That’s how we do business at Make It Work.

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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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Some Tips to Improve the Civility on Hacker News

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Paul explains the rationale behind HackerNews this way : “We wanted to try to recreate the way reddit felt back in 2006, when the users were mainly hackers. HN and Techmeme are the main two tech aggregators that I frequently skim. As reddit became more popular, its focus inevitably changed. From Ji [last name withheld].

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Comments are the New Black

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Occasionally I’ll get an LinkedIn email from somebody saying, “I see you know such-and-such, would you mind connecting me?&# In a way, LinkedIn has become mostly a chore for me – a place to provide intros for two people that I know. When I sent out 300 invites in early 2006 people thought I was crazy.

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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.