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Job Of The Month

One of the fastest growing tech companies in recent years is Uber, the company that lets people looking
for rides, and people willing to act as drivers, connect via their smartphones in more than 500 cities 15
worldwide. The company is currently looking for a data engineer for its Crystal Ball forecasting platform
The percentage of U.S. households with
(gotta love that name). Uber generates massive amounts of data, and it wants engineers who can take
broadband service that only use an antenna
all that data and create new tools and systems to make use of it. Applicants for Data Engineer-Crystal
for television viewing. This percentage has
Ball must have experience in SQL and need to have developed applications in a LAMP environment. The
increased from less than 9% three years
more you know about Hadoop/Hive, Pinot, Scuba, Redshift, and big data warehousing tech, the better.
ago. (See “More People Enjoying Broadband
You’ll work as part of a team that operates across divisions and has high visibility in the company, so
At Home” on this page for information on
this is your chance to shine. For more information on the Data Engineer-Crystal Ball position, see the
how broadband penetration in the U.S. has
Uber website. This opening is in the company’s San Francisco offices.
changed over the past 15 years.)
Source: www.uber.com/careers
Parks Associates
PC Gaming Hardware 4 billion
Sales = $30 Billion The installed base of smartphones
For the first time ever, global sales of PC worldwide at the end of 2016. This number
gaming hardware have surpassed $30 billion. is expected to increase about 50% to 6
The market, which comprises DIY and pre-built billion by 2020.
gaming PCs, upgrades, and accessories, is IHS Markit
forecast by market research outfit Jon Peddie
to grow at a nice 6% clip for the next several $30.4 billion
years. The research company breaks down the
overall market into three segments—entry- Total revenue generated by the U.S.
level, midrange, and high-end—and says that videogame industry in 2016. This total
computer gaming enthusiasts are in all three parts of the market. The company also reports that as includes all related hardware, software,
more and more basic computing functions are capable of being performed by mobile devices such as and peripherals sales as well as in-game
the phone or tablet, the PC is becoming more of a tool for power users who want to do things such as purchases made by gamers.
create content, edit photos and video, and (of course) play games. Entertainment Software Association &
NPD Group
Source: Jon Peddie Research

More People Enjoying Broadband At Home 900 billion
Nearly 75% of adults in the U.S. now have broadband internet service at home, an all-time high. Many The number of hours worldwide that people
people consider the service essential for modern households, but at the start of this century, broadband spent using apps in 2016. That’s about 122
service was just beginning to spread in the U.S. The Pew Research Center periodically surveys homes hours each for every man, woman, and child
to track internet usage and other related trends; surveyors saw an uptick in broadband access last year. on the planet. Nearly 90 billion apps were
downloaded during the year.
Source: Pew Research Center
App Annie

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