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| Glassdoor: Twitter dethrones Facebook as the best tech company to work for, ending three-year streak Posted: 10 Dec 2013 09:00 PM PST  Career website Glassdoor today released its sixth annual Employees' Choice Awards, a list of the 50 best places to work for in the coming year. Twitter was elected the number one tech company to work for in 2014, displacing Facebook, which held the crown for three years straight (2011, 2012, and 2013). In fact, Facebook didn't even manage to get second place. Twitter was first in tech (second overall), LinkedIn was second in tech (third overall), and Facebook was third in tech (fifth overall). That's not all. 22 tech companies were rated among the 50 best places to work in 2014, ensuring that the technology industry had more firms in the list than any other industry. Here are all 22 of them: Last year, we noted that both Facebook and Google pay their engineers well, so having the duo in the top 10 wasn't surprising. We also pointed out that given the wide range of projects running at Google, it was odd the company wasn't higher. This year, like last year, it's still sixth. Last year, we noted that it was odd to see Apple so far down the list (at #34), but this year it's one position lower at #35. Microsoft didn't make the list last year or this year. For those who aren't familiar with it, the Employees' Choice Awards is based on the input of employees who choose to provide feedback on their job, work environment, and company, via an anonymous online company review survey. Glassdoor then uses a "proprietary algorithm" to determine an overall ranking "based on the quantity, quality and consistency of reviews." In other words, it's based on what employees anonymously tell Glassdoor about their employer. Twitter's engineers clearly had a lot of good things to say, but opinions might be different after its first year as a public company. In case you're still curious, here's the full list of 50 companies: Top Image Credit: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Getonic is rolling out actionable ad units so you can buy products without ever leaving a page Posted: 09 Dec 2013 09:48 AM PST  Getonic, the company that wants to turn your social feeds into a retail channel, has rolled out a new ad product that allows businesses to more easily build and share advertisements for products across social channels and other ad-networks. The new ad units ultimately mean that people will be able to purchase items directly from the advert in question, rather than having to click through to the retailers' site to complete the process. The new feature is a part of the company's POPshop platform, which now allows users to quickly set up a product in their POPshop and then directly share it as an in-feed store or promote it via Facebook, Right Media (Yahoo) or the Google Display Network (GDN). The company said that the ads will be automatically targeted for the relevant audience on the chosen networks and will include purchasing capabilities that allow viewers to buy the product (including paying) directly from within the ad. Getonic said the new ad unit was designed to restore some of the experience of impulse buys to Web shopping. As things stand right now, users that click to buy an item shown in an ad are still redirected to PayPal, but this will change to being completed fully within the ad unit within the next "two to three weeks", Getonic's CEO Adi Eyal, told TNW. Featured Image Credit – Thinkstock  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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