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Social Chat launches with $6M to bring brands closer to their customers

TechCrunch

When brands sell through social media and other third-parties, they often spend millions of dollars to advertise on those platforms, yet have little or no knowledge of who their customers actually are. Social commerce startup Social Chat is out to change that. Can social and e-commerce transform the future of the open web?

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8 ways IT can help supercharge your sales team

CIO

Form a strong partnership Forming an effective IT-sales partnership requires embracing a startup mentality, even at large, long-established organizations, advises Amit Vashisht, assistant vice president at retirement services firm Jackson Enterprise Technology. Yet he also advises proceeding with caution.

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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO

It’s no secret that having the right capabilities is essential to digital success, but given the dynamic nature of digital business, these capabilities go beyond technical know-how. The market is tight, but we are not short of people with technical skills; people who can develop, build infrastructure, and understand the cloud,” says Fox.

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Fast-growing livestream shopping platform Whatnot acquires Pastel Labs, hires VP of engineering

TechCrunch

To aid on that front, Whatnot is making two key hires, one of which involves the acquisition of Pastel Labs, a company founded in 2020 by Jeff Chang , previously the technical lead for Pinterest’s growth team and a well-known growth advisor. But the team kept building, understanding that live and social commerce in the U.S.

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Product manager salary: Pay range factors, tips for making more

CIO

A product manager coordinates technical, marketing, and business functions, taking ownership over a specific product or service over the course of its lifecycle. You can look at accounts like Socially Inept Tech Roast for a sampling of memes about $450,000 total comp for Meta PMs who do nothing.

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Top IT exec recuiters weigh in on talent trends today

CIO

When I last dedicated an episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast to the state of tech talent, we were just coming out of a multi-year “sellers” market, and we could sense that we were hitting an inflection point. Do you see the role of a college degree diminishing in the IT talent market? Do you want a full-time job?

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5 forces shaping the future IT workforce

CIO

Concerns about a looming recession have not derailed the booming IT job market. If I can’t pay them more money or give them more free gym memberships or daycare, then all I have is another day off — especially in the IT market where a lot of the work is based on deliverables or performance.”. Hiring, IT Leadership, Staff Management