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 →African-Americans, like most job seekers, turn to search engines and job sites like Indeed when looking for work. Google, the worlds largest search engine, has announced Google for Jobs. The new service seeks to leverage...
Read More →By Bari A. Williams Originally published on FastCompany.com May 5th, 2017 This is a tale of two tech startups. The first is a messaging app that allows a user to send a one-word greeting to...
Read More →Serena Williams Tennis superstar Serena Williams has taken on the challenge of diversity in the technology industry. Williams has joined the board of directors of SurveyMonkey along with Intuit CEO Brad Smith. Williams says she...
Read More →Is Facebook playing mind games? Toying with your emotions? The answer is yes and its been going on for some time. A recently leaked confidential document prepared by Facebook revealed the social media giant offered...
Read More →FBI Director James Comey said, “There is no longer absolute privacy in the United States.” In the age of information everything you say do, write or watch on television is recorded somewhere. And now Congress...
Read More →Rapper/entreprenuer/business mogul JayZ is launching a venture capital fund. The brother has the Midas touch and knows how to use it. In 2011 the husband of Beyonce invested in Uber and that blew up. The...
Read More →Facebook is fighting back against advertisers that discriminate. The world’s largest social media website has been severely criticized for its ethnic affinity advertising tool. The technology, while not intended to be used as a discrimination...
Read More →Lee O’Denat, founder of the extremely popular website WorldStarHipHop.com has died in San Diego. Police were called to a local San Diego business yesterday for a man reported as being unconcious. According to the San...
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...
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