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GeekWork Picks: Imprintable product supplier SanMar seeks IT Development Manager
Founded in 1971, SanMar Corp. is a national supplier of apparel and accessories for marketing, promotional, and athletic products. The family-owned company is seeking an IT Development Manager to lead the team designing software for SanMar’s Customer Integration, Enterprise Integration Platform...
Q&A: How Facebook handles product security, with help from outside bug hunters
Peter Oehlert is the director of product security for Facebook, leading the social network’s efforts to ensure the security of the apps and features used by more than 1.5 billion people around the world. A former Microsoft security software engineer with experience in consulting and startups, he...
Harbingers of failure: meet the customers you don’t want to love your product
Unbeknownst to themselves, some of these apparently happy consumers are actually harbingers of failure. (credit: Flickr user Peter Hilton)
A central premise in marketing seems so obvious that it doesn’t even bear scrutiny: if customers give you positive feedback on your product, that’s good. And if those people buy the product repeatedly, that's even better.
But what...
Magic Leap looks to enter unicorn territory before it even reveals first product
Mysterious augmented reality startup Magic Leap is looking to raise $ 827 million in a Series C funding round, according to a Delaware filing given to Forbes. If able to raise that much, Magic Leap would have about $...
‘Innovation studio’ Ivy Softworks unveils first product Atlas, a search engine for your digital life
Stealthy Seattle startup innovation studio Ivy Softworks is lifting the lid off its first set of products that aim to be somewhat of a search engine on steroids for your digital life. Atlas Informatics, the first company spun out of Ivy Softworks, is “solving a problem everyone has,” according to Jordan Ritter, the Napster co-founder who...
Google partners with Zillow for new ‘Google Compare’ mortgage comparison product
Google today rolled out a new Google Compare product for those looking to analyze mortgage quotes and is getting some help from Zillow Group. Google Compare for Mortgages, announced today, is a free tool that lets homebuyers and homeowners see 300 mortgages from more than 75 different lenders. It’s available now to users in California, with more states to...