In America, much of Google’s success is attributed to its brilliant employees. In China, there’s no reason that the situation would be any different, but as a bonus, the company could gain a competitive edge by hiring locals. Google’s poor understanding of…
BEIJING (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it would hire 1,000 engineers in the current fiscal year, joining the current 5,000 staff in China. “We will add 1,000 engineers,” Zhang Yaqin, the company’s chairman in the mainland, told reporters on the…
PEOPLE working in the information technology industry earned more than employees in all other industries on average last year, according to the Shanghai Statistics Bureau. They were followed by workers in the finance, electricity, gas and water, real estate and scientific research…
Many multinational hi-tech firms in China are facing stagnation or even declining market share as Chinese competitors secure the emerging mid-range market for hi-tech goods. McKinsey research shows that 30 to 75 percent of future growth in the global hi-tech industry will…
NEW DELHI: Engineering and technology firms in the United Kingdom are turning to India, China and South Africa to fulfill their skills requirement, a latest survey has said. In the UK, 48 per cent of the companies in the sector have recruited…
Motorola CIO Patricia Morrison talks about recruiting and retaining talent in the global marketplace, innovation in IT and developing a process for integrating acquisitions. Four of the five business unit CIOs who work for you are women. How do you happen to…
THE search is on for people with vocational skills to enter a citywide contest next year covering 180 professions, ranging from car repairs to Web-page design. Ninety-six winners of last year’s contest stepped up yesterday to receive their awards, according to the…
BEIJING: Google, owner of the world’s most-used Internet search site, is planning to more than double the number of engineers it has in China to help win users in the world’s second- biggest Internet market. The company aims to have between 200…
