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Central Ohio Tech Companies Find Successful Business Strategies in Hard Times
The news about the economy continues to be glum. The stock market is up one week, loses ground the next. The media continue to report news about job layoffs and home foreclosures. So how could any business possibly be doing well in such a financial climate? While it may not be easy, it’s certainly possible to succeed in a slumping economy. [Read More]
TechColumbus and OSU’s Business Builders Club Team-up for Interactive Student-Business Event
On May 20, TechColumbus teamed up with The Business Builders Club - OSU’s undergraduate entrepreneurship organization - to produce the TechColumbus IdeaPitch and Industry Forum, one of the first events of its kind anywhere. A combination of career fair, business plan competition and forums for discussing industry careers, the program was planned and executed by a group of business and student volunteers as a way to expand and deepen connections between university students and the business community. This first effort attracted over 175 students and industry representatives [Read More]
Fisher College of Business Announces 2009 Deloitte Business Plan Competition Winners
Three promising biomedical innovations have taken top honors in the annual Deloitte Business Plan Competition at OSU’s Fisher College of Business. The competition is designed to stimulate and nourish the entrepreneurial spirit in OSU students by encouraging them to develop new ventures based on their own ideas and technologies. It is also meant to serve as a real-world workshop in which students learn to successfully pitch their ideas to investors. Competition winners are awarded approximately $140,000 in cash and services to use as start-up funds to transform their [Read More]
Google Uses Algorithm to try to Stem Brain Drain
Keeping Employees Engaged Found to be Key to Talent Retention . Although reluctant to share details of the formula, Google is using an algorithm to cull data from employee surveys and peer reviews to identify which of its 20,000 employees are most likely to quit. Google says the formula is still being tested but they are combining the use of “heavy data” with more traditional measures, like employee training and leadership meetings, in an effort to prevent its most promising engineers, designers and sales executives from leaving the company. [Read More]
FTC Proposes Crackdowns on Blogger Endorsement
In a proposed revision to its guidelines for editorials and testimonials in ads, the Federal Trade Commission wants to clarify how companies court bloggers to write about their products. The guidelines, expected to be issued this summer, will require bloggers to disclose when they are being compensated by an advertiser to discuss a product.
Bloggers are seen as a cost effective means of marketing a product or service especially during times such as these when marketing budgets remain tight. [Read More]
Opinions Vary on Whether IT Spending has Bottomed Out
Tech industry leaders seem to be slightly at odds over whether IT spending has bottomed out and begun the process of recovery. A story last week in the Wall Street Journal cited several IT leaders in organizations including Sunoco, Inc., Allstate Corp., and Notre Dame University as believing that U.S. businesses have finished cutting their IT budgets.
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AEP Releases Annual Sustainability Report – Commits to Doubling its Renewable Energy Goal
As one of the key goals outlined in its third annual Corporate Sustainability Report, AEP has committed to doubling, from 1,000 MW to 2,000 MW, the amount of renewable energy it will output by 2011.
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The engineer is responsible to design various medical devices, including catheters, scopes, and product line extensions, from concept through the development process. Under supervision, receives general instructions about required tasks and results expected. Work is usually well defined and is checked for progress and reviewed for accuracy upon completion. Applies standard practices and techniques in specific situations, adjusts and correlates data, recognizes discrepancies in results, and follows operations through a series of related detailed steps and processes. [Read More]
Exchange and Active Directory Administrator
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