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Happy Holidays from Aha!

December 21st, 2011 No comments

Santa is rocking out

It seems amazing, but it’s been a full year since we Harman snapped us up and moved us to our new digs in downtown Palo Alto.

With all the dust settling last year (and since we were without furniture) we didn’t even have a chance to deck the halls.

Fortunately we had plenty of time this year, and our efforts have compelled an early visit from jolly old St. Nick.

After stopping by the Starbucks downstairs, the old guy swung through to show us the headphones he’s been rocking in his sleigh.

We’re still waiting to see if we get any visitors for Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Soyal, Winter Solstice, or Yule.

At the very least I’m hoping we can scare up a Festivus Pole by Friday (fingers crossed).

Happy holidays from the Aha Team!

-Ryan

Categories: Aha Team, General

Work It … at Aha

November 18th, 2011 No comments

If you’ve been looking for a chance to WORK IT on something new, different, and exciting, you should take a look at our jobs page.  We’ve been growing, but still have some positions to fill.

And if you need a reminder on some of the reasons you might want to work here (besides the whole reinventing the way people consume media), here’s a list:

  • Employees get a PHAT discount on a wide variety of Harman products (that includes JBL, Infinity, & AKG)
  • We run a Mac shop, so your computer won’t be lame
  • Every employee gets to program a mix station for the Aha Community
  • Competitive salaries
  • 401K matching
  • Well stocked kitchen with breakfast, snacks, and drinks
  • Health, vision, dental, and life insurance
  • Generous PTO and Vacation days
And we play a lot of ping-pong!
-Ryan

Categories: Aha Team, General

Aha hits Music City

November 11th, 2011 No comments

Our fearless leader was in Nashville recently for a special Harman event.  Partners, customers, stakeholders, and staff gathered in Tennessee to get a peek, or even test out, some of the latest and greatest that Harman has to offer.

While in town for the event, Robert (our Aha GM, and the fearless leader mentioned above) also participated in a digital town meeting focused on the the emerging Connected Lifestyle.

There are a lot of interesting things covered during the session.  Definitely worth a look!

-Ryan

 

Categories: Aha Team, Car Audio, General

New Office Christening

September 29th, 2011 No comments

I’ve always been under the impression that an office isn’t really an office until the supreme overlords from corporate have paid a visit.  So I’m happy to say that our office is now official … thanks to this week’s visit from several members of the Harman exec staff.

Max explaining his strategy for serving in Ping-Pong

And the timing couldn’t have been better.  Not only had I recently finished setting up the SoundBar and PS3, but our design guru was able to put some additional touches on some of the office decor that he had put up over the last few months.

Not only that, but the blu-ray set of Star Wars came in a couple weeks ago, and my LEGO Hoth Playset arrived with just enough time to assemble.

All in all it was quite a successful day.

 

-Ryan

Categories: Aha Team, General

Interns + Sundaes = Pre-Holiday Weekend Fun

September 1st, 2011 No comments

Snack time

Time goes by so fast.  It seems like only yesterday (ok, a month ago) that we welcomed the very first Aha interns to our world.

Alas, school had to go and start again.  That means that Emily and Kyra are en route to the great Pacific Northwest (especially lovely this time of year) to return to the wonderful world of academia.

And since Friday’s before three day weekends are notoriously vacant days around most offices, we opted for a Thursday Sundae Bar Day (try saying that 10 times fast).

Mmmmmm

Thanks again to Emily and Kyra for all the great help!

-Ryan

Categories: Aha Team, General

Establishing record productivity levels around the office

August 19th, 2011 No comments

The office additions are really starting to pile up these days.  Over the last few months we’ve added interns, a home theater, and a bunch of nifty decorations. We even have a special “Conference Table” that magically works great for ping-pong.

But something was still missing.  We needed MORE electronics devices and more speakers.  Fortunately Harman came through with the SB 16 wireless SoundBar.

Which is a fantastic add because the speaker and woofer are wireless and don’t take up a lot of space.  That is something that is critically important for our music or motion based games, like Guitar Hero.

Taking a break for some RAMMSTEIN! Me (Ryan) on guitar, with Viktor on the skins.

It is also important to make sure we have plenty of space around the “Conference Table”, seeing as how we are in the middle of a very important, rotating, double-elimination, set of 1:1 “meetings” called King Pong.

Don’t forget, we are hiring!

Have a good weekend,

Ryan

Categories: Aha Team, General

Aha Can Has Internz

August 5th, 2011 No comments

We had two very exciting additions to the Aha Radio workplace this week … our very first INTERNS!  Yep, we are totally official now.

Say hello to Emily and Kyra.  They will be here for another couple weeks helping us out with a few important projects.  And while I can assure you that isn’t code for “fetching Starbucks”, I can’t go into much more detail.

Our interns

Emily and Kyra

Emily comes to us from University of Portland, and is currently leaning toward Secondary Education and History.  When not in class there is a good chance she could be found reading Harry Potter.

Kyra is in town from Western Washington University, where she is currently a Biology major who splits her free time between dancing and being obsessed with Disney stuff.

Stay tuned and I will try to shed more light on what exactly they are working on.

-Ryan

Categories: Aha Team, General

HuffPost Tech highlights an Aha staffer!

July 28th, 2011 No comments

In case you haven’t been keeping an eye on HuffPost Tech recently, they have been doing a series of posts about Women in Tech.

In a recent post they highlighted several Women in Tech that readers should be following on Twitter.  And one of the featured women … our very own head of Marketing, Chia-Lin Simmons.

If following on Twitter isn’t enough, you can also check out the On Digital Media podcast she hosts with three of her technology/marketing geek friends.  Look for  it in the Manage Stations section.

-Ryan

Categories: Aha Team, General

USA! USA! USA!

July 13th, 2011 No comments

People all over America took the day off today to gather in the morning hours at local bars and pubs and watch Team USA in the World Cup Semis.

Not us … we take our jobs very seriously.  (As you can see.)  If you approach your work with similar levels of seriousness, you may want to check out our jobs page.

Working Hard

Categories: Aha Team, General

Say Hello to AhaRadio.com!

July 1st, 2011 No comments

Our new home (page)

If you have been with us for a long time you remember that our original app was named Aha Mobile.

That was also the name for the company, as well as the URL for the website.

Unfortunately, when we changed the name to Aha Radio we didn’t own the AhaRadio.com domain, and a long overdue website overhaul had to wait.

Well, I’m extremely excited to announce that the wait is over.

Say hello to our new website … www.aharadio.com!

You can also update your bookmarks, because the blog is available at www.aharadio.com/blog.

Take a look around the new digs, and let us know what you think.

-Ryan

 

Categories: Aha Team, General, Product News