Facebook’s surprising diversity report showed marked improvement in hiring of women and minorities. While the report shows that Facebook is still overwhelmingly white and male the improvements show that Maxine Williams, Facebook’s Executive Diversity Chief, is having...
Read More →Written by Robin White Goode for BlackEnterprise.com, June 27th, 2017 Intel Corporation announced the Intel HBCU Grant Program, a three-year, $4.5 million initiative, to help retain students in STEM pathways at six historically black colleges:...
Read More →Candi Castleberry-Singleton has been named vice president of inclusion and diversity at Twitter. Castleberry-Singleton replaces Jeffrey Siminoff who resigned in February. Castleberry-Singleton has a long track record in the field of diversity and inclusion. Previously...
Read More →In case you haven’t heard Uber is having it’s troubles right now. First there was the video of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick berating an Uber driver leading to his apologizing and asking for leadership help....
Read More →Apple has named Denise Young Smith, Apple’s Global Head of Human Resources to Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion. The newly created position will be responsible for opening up Apple’s work place to more women,...
Read More →Diversity in Silicon Valley suffered a serious blow Wednesday when Apple shareholders rejected a diversity proposal aimed at the company’s leadership. For the second year in a row Apple shareholders rejected a proposal requiring the company...
Read More →For all the hoopla and declarations by companies promising to improve diversity not a lot is happening. As matter of fact some companies have delayed or outright resisted releasing certain diversity data. According to the Wall...
Read More →Technology and diversity are not synonymous. But that is not to say that African-Americans and people of color are not making efforts and having success in the cyber realm. Black people have a saying; “Step...
Read More →Damien Hooper-Campbell has been named the first chief of diversity for the online auction website eBay. Before joining eBay Damien worked a year as the global diversity and inclusion lead at Uber. Prior to that...
Read More →Algorithm– a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer. If you think computing, technology and the Internet is color blind you would be wrong. We...
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