Silicon Valley Job Fair For People Who Want Jobs In India

This weekend, Silicon Valley's premier convention venue is hosting a job fair -- for people who want to work in India:

A job fair at the San Jose Convention Center this weekend is focused on helping companies recruit Indian workers who may in the U.S. on a visa by informing them about the professional and economic opportunities back home.

Organizers also stressed that the job fair is also open to anyone who is interested in working in India.

Among the companies involved in the job fair are: Flipkart, an Indian online shopping company; consulting firm Accenture; and Amazon.com, which runs development centers in Indian cities.

Others include: McAfee, which is now part of Intel; SmartPlay Technologies, an Indian semiconductor firm; InfoTech Enterprises, an Indian engineering design firm; Indian manufacturing firm Jindal Steel & Power; Tata Motors; San Jose-based Synapse Design; and UST Global, an IT services firm.

Silicon Valley job fair for people who want jobs in India

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know Videos

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Stuff They Don't Want You to Know Videos

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Talko’clock: “p2p Alarm Clock” For People Who Want To Wake Up/be Woken Up By Strangers

If you're the sort of person who likes to wake up strangers, or talk to strangers first thing in the morning, then TalkO'Clock might be right for you. It's a P2P matchmaking service that allows you to volunteer to serve as someone else's wake-up call (or to book a stranger in as your waker-upper).

TalkO’Clock allows you to choose whether you want to be called by a male or a female stranger, and it has a robot – CallO’Bot – lined up in case no one is available at the time you have to wake up.

TalkO’Clock, The Social P2P Alarm Clock (via /.)

TalkO’Clock: “P2P alarm clock” for people who want to wake up/be woken up by strangers

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Scientists Want Your Help To Id Creatures In Your Home

The next time you hunger to see wildlife without leaving the city limits, save yourself a trip to the zoo, and take a peek inside the refrigerator. Places inside your home, like the fridge, water heater and bedroom pillows, contain more wild and unknown species than any nature reserve.

Scientists Want Your Help to ID Creatures in Your Home

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Want Creative Workers? Loosen The Reins, Boss

Philip Glass, the contemporary composer, works on his new compositions only between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. That’s the time, he says, when his creative ideas come to him. When filmmaker George Lucas needs to write or edit a script, he sequesters himself in a small cottage behind his house where he gets no calls or visitors.

Want Creative Workers? Loosen the Reins, Boss

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Scientists Want You To Track Ants In Your Neighborhood

Ants seem common and ubiquitous, especially at summertime picnics. But the names and types of ants crawling around city parks and streets are largely unknown to researchers.

Scientists Want You to Track Ants in Your Neighborhood

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Welcome to Wal-Mart? Even Some of Its Fans Don’t Want One in the City

City residents might love a bargain, but some would rather drive to New Jersey than welcome the Wal-Mart chain into their neighborhoods.

Welcome to Wal-Mart? Even Some of Its Fans Don’t Want One in the City

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All I want for Christmas is the $62,000 Twitter owes me

I'm not a greedy man, or an unreasonable one. (Nor, for that matter, am I insane. I'm NOT.) So when I sat down to place a monetary value on the content that's gone missing from my Twitter stream over the last week, an issue that Twitter has so far failed to acknowledge, I consistently rounded down. That's how I arrived at $62,000. I mean, I didn't just pull the figure out of a hat, although I did write some figures down and place them in a hat as a backup, along with some festively-wrapped holiday candy and some buttons. It's all here, in a post I wrote for Forbes.com: The roughly 4000 tweets that have vanished from my Twitter account have a value, and that value is sixty-two big ones, and that figure is more than fair to Twitter, despite the fact that I've given them every opportunity to make this thing right, which they have so far failed utterly to do.

So here's what I'm going to do: I'm crowdsourcing my outrage for Christmas. Do you have a Twitter account? If so, can you help me out? All you need to do is tweet the following:

@twitter @support You owe @billbarol $62,000. Pay up. http://t.co/e1jcou5

That's all there is to it. It's so simple. And the beautiful part is, it's not even remotely insane, it's NOT. Together we can make Twitter do what's right. And to show that my heart is in the right place. this is my pledge: Upon receipt of a certified check from Twitter in the amount of $62,000, I will in a relatively prompt manner donate $250 to a major charity that is legally registered in the US or her offshore waters. Because it's not about the money. And I am not insane. Merry Christmas! Viva la raza!

All I want for Christmas is the $62,000 Twitter owes me

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Tata’s Nano, the People’s Car That Few Want to Buy

The car intended for millions in India has been hurt by delays and safety concerns, and questions about how to cater to people of modest means.

Tata’s Nano, the People’s Car That Few Want to Buy

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Tata’s Nano, the Car That Few Want to Buy

The car intended for millions in India has been hurt by delays and safety concerns, and questions about how to cater to people of modest means.

Tata’s Nano, the Car That Few Want to Buy

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"Global diplomatic crisis" sparked by cables: U.N. spied on; Saudis want US to attack Iran; British royalty misbehaves; military incompetence

The Guardian's coverage of the embassy cables is up: it reports that they've already sparked a global diplomatic crisis. Some more juicy revelations:

"Global diplomatic crisis" sparked by cables: U.N. spied on; Saudis want US to attack Iran; British royalty misbehaves; military incompetence

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The Guardian: "Global diplomatic crisis" sparked by cables. U.N. spied on; Saudis want US to attack Iran; British royalty misbehaves; U.S. and U.K. intimate but snarky with each other

The Guardian's coverage of the embassy cables is up: it reports that they've already sparked a global diplomatic crisis. Some more juicy revelations:

The Guardian: "Global diplomatic crisis" sparked by cables. U.N. spied on; Saudis want US to attack Iran; British royalty misbehaves; U.S. and U.K. intimate but snarky with each other

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