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• Employment engine keeps humming for IT job seekers

  Momentum keeps building in tech industry hiring, with unemployment dropping even lower than before. But it's not all good news, as Web developers and others saw increases in joblessness.

• IT jobs outlook: High demand, higher salaries

  With the <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/2872701/it-jobs/hiring-streak-stays-hot-for-tech-pros.html">hot job market for technology professionals</a>, it is not surprising that salaries are up, too  though only a bit.

• Hiring streak stays hot for tech pros

  Tech professionals continue to have rosy prospects in the job market.

• In Pictures: Top 10 IT skills based on increases in demand

  On any given day, employers post about 80,000 jobs on Dice.com. Here are the 10 fastest-growing categories based on number of mentions compared to a year ago.

• Survey: Tech workers seek larger salaries in 2014

  Employers may need to open up their wallets to retain their IT staffers in 2014, according to a salary survey from IT career website Dice.com.

• 12 toughest U.S. cities for tech recruiting

  San Francisco isn't the toughest place to hire tech pros these days. The talent crunch is worse in New York City than in the renowned tech stronghold on the West Coast, according to IT staffing specialist Dice.com. Recruiting challenges are also hitting other U.S. cities, including Chicago, Detroit, Boston and Tampa.

• Cloud drives job creation in banner month for tech

  The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 3,600 jobs were created in the tech category, 'data processing, hosting and related services,' marking the single best month of job growth in this category since June 1998.

• IT pros leave money on the table, job site finds

  When a job offer arrives, a majority of IT pros accept it without asking for more pay, according to Dice.com. If candidates were to negotiate higher salaries, they could expect a bump in the neighborhood of 5%, the IT careers specialist estimates.

• Gartner: Hadoop will be in two-thirds of advanced analytics products by 2015

  The Hadoop open source programming framework for large-scale data analysis is already one of the highest-profile technologies in the "big data" market, but users can expect it to become even more prevalent over the next couple of years, according to Gartner.

• Cloud, mobile and BI skills to lead technology hiring in 2013

  IT hiring in 2013 will focus on jobs involving cloud computing, mobile technology and business intelligence, said staffing professionals.

• Outlook for IT bonus pay murky: survey

  IT pros are divided when it comes to bonus expectations, according to tech jobs site Dice.com, and most believe company performance determines bonus payouts, not individual performance.

• IT worker demand remains robust despite slow economy

  U.S. tech hiring for the second half of 2011 will increase as the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/020411-tech-cfos-anticipate-revenue-increase.html">gradually improving economy</a> results in companies updating their IT systems after scaling back during the recession, according to a hiring survey from technology job website Dice.com.

• 10 questions for Dice Holdings CFO Michael Durney

  10 questions for Dice Holdings CFO Michael Durney

• How to recruit and hire Millennial tech employees

  The Millennial generation increasingly streaming into the workforce is less focused on money and more on being challenged and contributing to the larger good, preferably at a job where technology is important to the overall operation and where it's acceptable to chat with friends via instant messaging and Facebook.

• IT hiring continues to improve, according to surveys

  Hiring for IT jobs continues on the upswing in the U.S. and Canada as recessionary gloom gives way to cautious optimism, according to various recent polls of employers, who cite networking, security, virtualization and database skills as among the most sought-after.