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Coffee can wait: 5 lessons your intern really needs to learn this summer

Mar12

by Sindy Cator on March 12, 2014 at 7:11 pm

Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Insider

Nathan Parcells is the co-founder and CMO of InternMatch, an online platform connecting the best intern candidates and employers. Connect with Nathan and InternMatch on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. This summer, thousands of students and young professionals will flock to land coveted internship positions. While the goal of many internship programs is to find talent, they can also be the gateway to skills development and powerful contacts. Despite this, the benefits of an internship have recently been shadowed by disasters, controversies, and even lawsuits. If stereotypes about interns were true, grabbing coffee or picking up dry cleaning would be the extent of their role. But with 97 percent of employers planning to hire interns and co-ops in 2014, you…

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Angry Birds Epic is a turn-based RPG with a crafting system and ‘challenging endgame’

Mar12

by Sindy Cator on March 12, 2014 at 6:26 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

For its next installment of the Angry Birds franchise, Rovio is building a turn-based role-playing game. A teaser video for Angry Birds Epic was released a few days ago, but today the developer has released some tantalizing new details. Firstly, the game will feature a campaign with a heavy focus on narrative. While the Angry Birds series isn’t known for delivering powerful stories, narrative is a driving factor for any successful RPG. Rovio says combat will be turn-based and there will also be a “challenging endgame,” which could suggest some form of boss, time attack or horde mode. Secondly, the…

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Google Wallet for Android and iOS now lets you track your current and past online orders

Mar12

by Sindy Cator on March 12, 2014 at 6:12 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Mobile

Google today announced an update to its Google Wallet app for Android and iOS, which adds a new feature called Orders, which requires your receipts to be first sent to your Gmail account. The new version is rolling out this week; once it’s available you can download it directly from Google Play and Apple’s App Store. Google Wallet now lets you automatically track your online orders, receive notifications about status updates (Google partnered with primary package carriers in the US), and track all your past orders as well. To take advantage of the feature, tap “Activate” under “Track your orders”…

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No, Twitter has not been hit by a massive spam botnet

Mar12

by Sindy Cator on March 12, 2014 at 5:58 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Social Media

Earlier this week, programmer Paul Dietrich made a posting on the site Cryptome about what he called a “Massive Twitter Botnet,” which was then picked up by Hacker News as well as a few publications. Among other claims, he put together a list of some 35,000 fake twitter handles, which he believes belong to a single botnet that is retweeting spam messages on the social network. Yet a closer look shows that this is by no means anything unique. Social networks the size of Facebook and Twitter often delete many more accounts in the space of just a few hours….