Today, Appirio is announcing that it has bought TopCoder, a platform currently used by some 500,000 developers, engineers and designers to collaborate on, and find, development assignments, ranging from apps and websites, to backend billing systems and more.
Having just finished a development assignment in northern Mozambique, I am spending some months on this island off the coast.
PepsiCo in Purchase, N.Y., has named Digitas Inc. in Boston to handle a consumer e-commerce strategy and development assignment for three business units: Frito-Lay, Pepsi-Cola and Tropicana.
The account, which had been handled by Carmichael Lynch, Minneapolis, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies, was awarded on the basis of a brand development assignment; there was no review.
The second objective of the study was to familiarize students with the features and benefits of using cotton for active apparel through a semester-long product development assignment.
The specific objectives of this study were as follows: (a) to identify the clothing needs of female baby boomers who play tennis regularly, (b) to familiarize students with the features and benefits of cotton for active apparel using a semester-long product development assignment, and (c) to make student learning industry oriented.
Niels has had an extensive career in international development with assignments for Unicef and the World Bank.
"When you have a lot more jobs than people to fill them, they can pick and choose," said Ralph Frank, the State Department's director of career development and assignments.
As a result, the representations can be used by educators, including information professionals and teachers, to inform instruction, such as lesson planning, development of assignments, resource location and evaluation, and the use of information, to fully exploit all aspects of the research process.
The purpose of the second problem of schedule development, fleet assignment, is to assign available aircraft types to flight legs such that seating capacity on an assigned aircraft matches closely with flight demand and such that costs are minimized.
The development addresses assignment problems of utility networks with emphasis on the optimal allocation of units over periods for maintenance.
