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Technology provides new ways for recruiters to find employees.

4 things to remember when using tech tools in recruiting and hiring

May 20, 2019 at 8:50 p.m.

Technology tools are surging into the world of hiring and recruiting but won't succeed if they are misunderstood, misapplied or misguided. So said a panel of recruiting experts gathered in...

The mobile app for gift card marketplace Raise.com.

An app that lets you buy and keep discounted gift cards on your phone

May 20, 2019 at 8:49 p.m.

A new app from a Chicago company will let people buy and sell unused gift cards for less than their cash value — and allow buyers to transfer the value...

We Are Wearables meetup expands to Chicago, features Moto 360 watch

May 20, 2019 at 8:49 p.m.

A popular Toronto-based monthly meetup for wearables entrepreneurs expanded to Chicago this week, with one of the Windy City's best-known new devices a featured attraction. More than 200 people turned...

How you can picture yourself in a ‘ridiculously simple’ aluminum frame

May 20, 2019 at 8:49 p.m.

A picture frame that grew out of a Chicago Ideas Week event launched Tuesday on Kickstarter, part of a local design group's efforts to boost manufacturing here. Reveal is an...

University of Chicago student wins top prize at Tech Challenge

May 20, 2019 at 8:48 p.m.

The University of Chicago took four of the top five spots in the fifth annual Illinois Technology Association Tech Challenge Friday. W. Cannon Matthews, a third year U of C...

A Google Chicago engineer builds a wall from Bloxes at the company's River North office.

Selling Chicago to tech recruits: one part work, one part fun

May 20, 2019 at 8:48 p.m.

Fifty top tech students from around the Midwest sat down for a two-hour test in the Loop Friday morning, perhaps thinking the goal of the event — the Illinois Technology...

Gasp! Illini numbers fall in ITA event finals

May 20, 2019 at 8:48 p.m.

Brace yourself for some ribbing, Illini engineering alums. You might want to avoid your pals from Northwestern and the University of Chicago for a few days. The 50 students for...

Tech Nexus CEO Terry Howerton (left) moderates a panel during the Forbes Reinventing America Summit with James Borel, executive vice president of DuPont, Alex Molinaroli, chairman, president & CEO of Johnson Controls and Tim Theriault, senior vice president of Walgreens.

Why Google Express delivers and how WeDeliver received the news

May 20, 2019 at 8:47 p.m.

Startup experts say entrepreneurs shouldn't always fear new competition — that they can view it as validation of their idea or business. But what if the new competition is a...

What if your wearable could stop bad habits in their tracks?

May 20, 2019 at 8:47 p.m.

If you're a trying-to-quit smoker or a dieter and think a gentle nudge of encouragement before you act on your next craving would help, there might soon be an app...

13th Chicago Innovation Awards honor the old and the new

May 20, 2019 at 8:45 p.m.

A 97-year-old company known for little red wagons and a two-year-old company partly owned by billionaire investor Mark Cuban were among the winners at the 13th annual Chicago Innovation Awards...

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