After the recent Wall Street meltdown, you would figure that less people would be interested in financial jobs but now the economy is recovering.  The Wall Street Journal plans to capitalize on the economic recovery by launching a financial career website called Fins.com.

Dow Jones Ventures General Manager and former Chief Revenue Officer of Jobster Kevin Hatfield is the General Manager of Fins.  Fins is the first launch to come out of Dow Jones Ventures.  Ann Sarnoff is leading the project.  Before Fins, Dow Jones Ventures and IAC partnered on a website called FiLife which has not gained much success.

One of the biggest problems with Fins right off the bad is that there are too many job seeking website alternatives out there as of right now.  If I were looking for a finance job, I’d first check TheLadders, Monster, and CareerBuilder.

[via paidContent]

About $2.5 million was spent on the redesign of WhitePages.com.  This is the first time that WhitePages.com was redesigned in about a decade.  The website receives about 24 million unique visitors per month.  ”It’s been a hell of a lot of work,” stated WhitePages VP of Marketing John Lusk.

“People continued to just think of us as the online version of the phone book versus the place where everyone can find each other and connect,” stated Lusk.  Now WhitePages.com is encouraing users to create personal profiles, add cellphone numbers, and e-mail addresses.

During the testing phase of the website, about one million e-mails and cellphone numbers were added to the site despite the skepticism people may have about leaving personal information public.  The site was redesigned using Ruby on Rails.

[via TechFlash]

A few developers at iSoft used a Bochs emulator and the original Windows 95 image to port the operating system over to the iPhone. Yes I admit that having Windows on an iPhone is an atrocity, but it just proves how talented the developers at iSoft are. The above demo showcases the developers wandering around in the file manager, changing around the property settings, and even playing a game of Minesweeper.

[via GoodiPhone]

Over the last 5 years Mark Lucovsky has been an Engineering Director with Google.  Lucovsky was actively involved in the development of Google’s APIs.  Before working at Google, Lucovsky worked at Digital Equipment Corporation and Microsoft for about 16 years.  Lucovsky was the architect of Windows NT.  Lucovsky wrote msot of the kernel32, kernel executive, and the Windows API.

When Mark Lucovsky told Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that he was resigning it was reported that the Microsoft CEO went ballistic.  “Just tell me it’s not Google,” said Ballmer.

When Lucovsky told Ballmer it was Google, the Microsoft CEO threw a chair across the room and uttered the following: “[expletive] Eric Schmidt is a [expletive] [expletive]. I’m going to [expletive] bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to [expletive] kill Google.”

Before working at Microsoft and DEC, Lucovsky received a bachelor’s in computer science at the California Polytechnic State University.

[via TechCrunch]

Apple announced today that about 1.5 billion applications were downloaded within one year of the App Store launch.  There are about 100,000 developers and 65,000 applications on the iTunes App Store today.

“The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before in both scale and quality,” stated Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a press release. “With 1.5 billion apps downloaded, it is going to be very hard for others to catch up.”

Applications are available for users to download in 77 countries and works with the original iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G S, and iPod Touch.  Over 40 million of those four devices have been shipped thus far.

Last night Superbad and Accepted star Jonah Hill was on David Letterman talking about his Twitter impersonator. “I have never been on the website Twitter nor will I ever be on the website Twitter,” said Hill on the show. “Apparently this kid has been talking trash to Jon Favreau.” Favreau is one of the stars in The Break-Up and Iron Man.

Twitter has been able to verify some celebrity accounts, but Jonah Hill definitely got shafted here.  Regardless the interview is hilarious.  Hill even called Favreau personally to apologize for what the fake account is saying to him.

Every now and then we hear about some crazy stuff happening in the land down under.  A few Aussies used Python to link up a Wiimote as a controller using Bluetooth for a 15 ton construction grapple.  The project was put together by Simon Wittber of Transmin.  Each grapple has about a 16 meter reach.

[via Make]

Qik is a live video recording service that work with Amoi, AT&T, BlackBerry, DoCoMo, Dopod, HTC, iMate, Motorola, Nokia, O2, Orange, Palm, Qtek, Samsung, Softbank, Sony Ericsson, Sprint, Swisscom, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Vodafone mobile phones.  Now that the Apple iPhone has video recording capabilities, it would not be a surprise if Qik designs an iPhone application.  Qik has recently raised $5.5 million in funding from Quest Venture Partners and CampVentures.

As a result of the funding Marcus Ogawa of Quest joined the Qik board of directors and Justin Camp of CampVentures became a board observer.  The company raised about $9.5 million in total funding so far.  Other investors include Marc Benioff, Arjun Gupta, George Garrick, Marc Andreessen, and Ben Horowitz.  Qik is based in Redwood City, California and has about 38 employees.

“We as a society continue to ravenously consume engagement media. I feel strongly that mobile video is on the cusp of exploding into the mainstream. I believe Qik, with its support for many different mobile platforms and engagement options, is poised to lead this charge,” stated Marcus Ogawa of Quest.

[via VentureBeat]