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	Subjects for your hallway conversations The week's most popular news: Information Technology and Services Powered by + Information Technology and Services Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, Passes Away At Age 70 - techcrunch.com Rob Pike, a current Google engineer known for his involvement in the creation of Bell Labs' Plan 9 and Inferno operating systems (as well as the Limbo programming language), shared some sad news today on Google+: After... 1460 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Steve Jobs and the Seven Rules of Success - entrepreneur.com Over the years, I've become a student of sorts of Jobs' career and life. Here's my take on the rules and values underpinning his success. Any of us can adopt them to unleash our "inner Steve Jobs." 4542 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share 5 ways to keep your rockstar employees happy - gigaom.com Salary and benefits aren’t enough to guarantee that your best and brightest creatives will remain engaged. Rypple’s Daniel Debow presents some best practices about what does motivate your top employees and how you can keep them... 497 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share The Must-Have Leadership Skill - blogs.hbr.org "We hired a new CEO, but had to let him go after just seven months," the chairman of an East Coast think tank complained to me recently. "His resume looked spectacular, he did splendidly in all the interviews. But within a week or two we were hearing... 1381 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Skype Officially Becomes A Microsoft Business Division As $8.5B Deal Closes - techcrunch.com Microsoft this morning announced that it has closed its $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype, a deal that was originally announced back in May. They even made an infographic to showcase the importance of the deal completion.... 727 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Better. Faster. The New LinkedIn Mobile App for iPhone and Android. Don't want to receive email notifications? Adjust your message settings LinkedIn values your privacy. At no time has LinkedIn made your email address available to any other LinkedIn user without your permission. © 2011, LinkedIn Corporation