Employment and job searching have long been hot topics in our world, and more and more jobs are being found and acquired through online searches. It has been found that the unemployed persons who look for work online are reemployed 25 percent faster than the comparable workers who do not search online. Leveraging its extensive network of online sites, Chitika wanted to analyze how job searching rates varied by location, as well as if a person’s likelihood to search for jobs online was influenced by their browser choice.

10 years ago, Chitika co-founders Venkat Kolluri and Alden DoRosario started a company with just a $5 investment. Boasting over 300,000 publishers in our network and a highly successful research arm, Chitika Insights, Chitika has grown tremendously since our early days! We are so excited to enter the second decade of our existence, and are so proud of everything this company has accomplished in the past 10 years.

With rave reviews of HTC’s newest smartphone, the HTC One, continuing to populate the Web, some analysts are predicting the device will dramatically improve the company’s long-term prospects after several years of receding market share. HTC’s most prominent competitor within the North American Android marketplace, Samsung, also recently released its own new smartphone model, the Samsung Galaxy S IV. With both Samsung and HTC largely eyeing the same target market, Chitika Insights looked to explore the initial adoption rates of both devices to quantify the early market progress of each smartphone.

Last Thursday, Chitika hosted its second Big Data Open House, with the main focus of the event being on the architecture and infrastructure of Big Data.