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We’ve heard the stories about how companies are crowdsourcing innovation and feedback, but what about market research? UserScout is a new market research “placeform” (marketplace + platform = placeform) that brings together willing participants (looking to get paid) with market researchers (eager for market data). UserScout just emerged from the Joyful Frog digital incubator in [...] Read more »

Infographic from Mindflash detailing those most at risk from having their jobs empheralized by robots.   Seems like the Artigence company mentioned in the call center segment has gone bye-bye. Read more »

I bumped into TINYpulse in a Fast Company article about entrepreneur’s ‘can’t live without’ tools, in which Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz said TINYpulse was his. The tool collates the results from anonymous surveys sent out to employees, intended for weekly use. In the first week, three questions are asked, and thereafter a single question. These [...] Read more »

SAP has said that the enterprise software company will initiate a global policy to hire people with autism to work in development roles, particularly in software testing. This follows a successful pilot in India and Ireland with participation of the job placement agency Specialisterne, a firm that specializes in placing people with autism into technical jobs. [...] Read more »

Comment threads can be added by anyone, anywhere on the canvas, and there is no laborious sequence of creating an account, logging in, and so on. Read more »

Yahoo's $1 billion acquisition of Tumblr wasn't an overpay by any stretch. Read more »

Yahoo needs an open platform to build its future on. Whether Tumblr will turn out to be the right platform, and whether its long-term potential is worth $1.1 billion now are obviously important questions. But I don't think they're what drove the deal. Read more »

The increased speed, complexity, and uncertainty of the business environment today means that businesses are operating in a world that is fundamentally different from that of only ten years ago. Read more »

This week on GigaOM Pro, our analysts took a close look at the cloud and at data - two topics that will take center stage at our Structure conference in San Francisco next month Read more »

Will Yahoo built a Tumblr for the enterprise? Or will someone else? Read more »