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CBCJobs.com, like many other successful websites, was conceived in the bedroom of its founder, Serge Bronstein. It was the summery of 2006, and Serge was having trouble finding a software engineering jobs.

“The biggest problem was the long apply process”, says Serge. “It took literally at least 20 minutes to apply to jobs. There had to be a better way”.

Armed with a mission, Serge started coding a job search engine from scratch. Three months later, the core of the CBCJobs was written and the domain was registered.

As the site became more popular, several more team members were added to the CBCJobs roster and many more features were added. Today, CBCJobs is one of the most popular US destination for finding a job.

Obama will win and Romney will lose. I say this with 99% certainty.

Why? Simple. Rich snobby candidates always lose in such a general election, because they don’t identify with the common voter. An average American is not rich. And they kind of hate rich people. Yes, you heard it right – they hate them. The only few places where a rich people might win are intellectual centers of America – those are New York, Boston and San Francisco. In those places, a rich, privileged candidate might gain traction, because the IQ level is much higher than than in general America.

Meg Whitman proved this in California. She’s rich and she’s smart. She probably would have done good as governor. But she did not win, because she did not identify with the average California voter. The result? Over $150 million of her money wasted. Same will happen with Romney.

PostJobsFreeNow.com is a job search engine that has 100% free basic job postings.

• large reach, over 50,000 daily visitors
• very easy to use
• clean, uncluttered interface
• little advertising
• post jobs free or sponsor them

PostJobsFreeNow.com is a popular destination for job seekers searching for jobs. Over 50,000 people a day conduct their job searches on PostJobsFreeNow.com. The website is a job search engine, meaning it gathers jobs from various company websites and other job boards and presents them all in one convenient place. Job seekers can search jobs by keywords or location.

Posting jobs is usually a rather expensive endeavor, with major competitors charging hundreds of dollars for one job posting. With PostJobsFreeNow.com , basic job posting is free, but jobs can be sponsored on a pay-per-click basis.

The site also lets employers search resumes absolutely free.  If you are a recruiter and haven’t visited PostJobsFreeNow.com, what are you waiting for? It’s a great tool for recruiting.

On my recent trip to and AT&T store … (yes, we were really bored), i came across a cool little thing called Sony Ericsson Experia Phone. It has a pull out control console that resembles a playstation, and I guess it plays Playstation games.

I tried playing a few games it had preloaded on there and it was pretty amazing. Although the screen was small, the graphics were fast and crisp. The controls were pretty intuitive. It comes with Android OS and functions exactly like a phone.

This phone is powered by a Snapdragon, 1-GHz CPU and the Adreno 205 graphical processor, optimized for advanced gaming and allowing 60 frames per second play-back. It comes with 8GB of available space, which can be increased to 32GB.

The phone comes in two versions.

The Xperia Neo features an 8-megapixel camera, and a mobile Bravia engine, Sony executives said. As a result, Sony talked up the TV-related features, including HDMI access and support for HD video as well as the ability to use the Neo as a TV remote.

The Xperia Pro includes a slideout QWERTY keyboard, inspired by the company’s X10 Mini Pro. The Xperia Pro includes a feature known as “smart keyboard,” which will intuitively guess what application you want to use. If you’re looking at e-mail, for example, and slide out your keyboard, the Pro will switch to a “reply” function.

I am guessing this would be a pretty big hit with the teenage audience. I definitely enjoyed it. My only complaint was that the screen was a bit small.

Are you wondering why APPLE stock (AAPP), or any other stocks, for that matter, are on such a roller coaster?And why the regular investor gets duped most of the time?

Mainly due to a little thing called high frequency trading, or HFT. This type of trading is reponsible for 70% of the trades on the market today, and it’s done solely by computers. These computers, most of which belong to Goldman Sachs, Merryl Lynch or another company closely related to Nasdaq or NYSE, sit right next to the very computers that run these stock exchanges. They get all the data of all the concurrent trades SOONER than anyone else in the market, perform a myriad of trades in a matter of seconds and make very thing margins. However, since there are so many trades, it adds up.

The system quickly determines demand for any particular stock, buys it and then sells it to investors. The regular investor has no chance to win. Even the big funds lose, which is what you saw in the 2008 meltdown. Who wins? Goldman and the other power houses.

The system is rigged worse than Las Vegas from the getgo. It’s just that an average investor has very little idea about it.

It is sad for me to see literally everyone on the Internet believing all these bullshit acquisition figures the Silicon Valley releases to drum up PR for their so called companies, because you can’t really even call Instagram a business – it’s a free app for sharing photos.

I haven’t seen a single person doubt the authenticity of the $1 billion figure – a number that cries out – “i am made up!”. They didn’t even try to make it realistic, maybe $915 million or $1025 million. But no, it’s a very round $1 billion.

Aquisition news are big business. And the higher the number, the more people talk about it. The more CNN covers it. You get the idea.

Nothing close to a billion ever exchanged hands here. I dare Facebook invite an external auditor and show how much money actually exchanged hands. I am pretty sure it’s nothing over just a few million and even that happened because Instgram’s investors are also investors in Facebook, so it’s like they are giving money to themselves. In the end, the average Joe is duped. And same thing will happen when the FB shares hit the market.

Bottom line, in this day and age, you can’t believe anything you see anymore.

Let me start off by saying I like Google. And I like it more than Facebook or Apple. And it hurts me to see it making all these misguided decisions. Which is the reason I wrote this piece.

Google is overextended. Although they used to be a really cool company with a startuppy feel, no they are a misguided corporate conglomerate.

Most of it comes from being out of focus with their core businesses, of which there are two: google search and android. They bought every stupid company under the sun, such as Zagat, Slide … they also wanted to buy GroupOn … they can thank their lucky stars they missed out on that gem!

And, of course, who can write an article like this without mentioning Google Plus, the vast digital wasteland sparsely populated by Google Employees. It’s been a huge success … NOT! (borat voice). I think it’s been a priority of Larry Page to make Google Plus work, forgetting that social networking sites suck and making money anyway. Just let it go. Google doesn’t need it’s own social networking site.

Meanwhile, Android tablets have failed. Why, you ask? Because Google hasn’t succeeded in forwarding enough resources to make Android Tablet edition great. And how can you, when you are spending all your efforts on Google Plus and also looking for the next dumb useless company to purchase.

AceTiger.com has announced it’s converting to pay-per-click format, effective April 2nd, 2012.

AceTiger is a leading technology job board, and is currently the fastest growing tech job board in the US. Now it becomes the first tech job board to employ the PPC technology for job postings.

PPC job are much more affordable and flexible than conventional job boards, which charge a high flat listing fee. With AceTiger, technical recruiters can control the pay per click amount as well as a total spend on every job they post.

If I told you that you can run the latest 3D games at the most gorgeous settings on your crappy computer with an Internet connection, you wouldn’t believe me. Yet Gaikai.com let’s you do exactly that.

Gaikai runs games in the cloud, meaning the game is run on their servers. They read your keyboard and mouse input and return sound and video. Thus, you only need a decent computer with a DSL connection to enjoy the visual brilliance of cutting edge games.

Currently, the site is used by game developers (who pay gaikai for this service) to provide demos of games, in hopes you’ll purchase the game after playing it. While the usual demos require hours of downloading and installation, Gaikai runs games almost immediately with no downloads. It’s truly amazing and is the future of gaming. Very soon, the need to buy latest processors and video cards might disappear, as games will be played on the cloud.

This is especially useful for devices like iPads, where huge downloads are inpractical and hardware capabilities are limited.

Can you make a lot of money making mobile games? The short answer is: no.

There is a perpetual myth that mobile games, apps make a lot of money. But that is because a lot of people like to think that they could sit on their butt at home, type code and make money. Let’s examine the top selling games on Android, as of March 28, 2012 they are: Draw Something, Words with Friends and Fruit Ninja. They each sell for $0.99.

Let’s stop for a minute and mention that having a top selling game is nearly impossible to create. It requires a ton of work, effort, money, and even if you do all that, you’ll still have a 1% chance of having a top 10 game.

So how much did our above mentioned top games make? Google Play shows their downloads at 500,000 plus. Let’s be generous and assume 750,000 paid downloads. Even with those downloads, they only made each $525,000 (we subtracted the 30% google fee). Let’s even be generous and assume they made a cool million. That is not a lot still. A mid-range restaurant makes a million a year. And Fruit Ninja has been around for a while too. And still at only 500,000+ paid downloads.

So, if you want to make a lot of money, get off your butt and start drilling for oil. The money is not in the mobile games.