Elon Musk claims “all-time high” Twitter signups, averaging 2M+/day in the seven days to November 16, up 66% YoY, and user active minutes of ~8B/day, up 30% YoY
Leak Reveals Elon Musk's Radical Twitter Plan And Boosts The Price Of This Small Bitcoin Rival 300% The Economic Times : International Business Times : Musk Reveals Twitter 2.0; Says Top Software Ace...
Hired: despite D&I initiatives, female African American tech workers earned $0.92 for every $1 a white male counterpart earned in 2021, down from $0.94 in 2020
As American corporations announce a record number of diversity and inclusion initiatives, Silicon Valley has seen … Source: Hired .
An African American manager and two job applicants filed a complaint against Facebook with the EEOC, alleging a culture of bias against Black workers
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In a rare public protest at Facebook, hundreds of staff staged a virtual walkout, pushing back on Zuckerberg's choice to let Trump's inflammatory posts stand
Since macOS 10.12 there's … Theodore Schleifer / Vox : Change will be harder for Silicon Valley than just donating money Wall Street Journal : Social Media Becomes Battleground Over Days of Street Pro...
Facebook nominates PayPal exec Peggy Alford to its board, the first African-American woman, and won't nominate Reed Hastings and Erskine Bowles for re-election
Facebook nominates Paypal's Peggy Alford to board of directors. She'll become 1st black woman nominated in FB history. — Erskine Bowles & Reed Hastings, both have been on the board since 2011, won't b...
A look at the emergence of Atlanta as the nation's black tech capital, where about 25% of tech workers were reported to be African American in 2016
ATLANTA — Over an iPad and a cup of tea, Marcus Blackwell Jr. is talking up his mobile app that uses music to help kids learn math. Tweets: @jguynn , @carnage4life , @nmsanchez , @usatoday , @geoffdun...
While Amazon's board has become more diverse, as of January, 44 of 48 execs in Amazon's upper ranks were reportedly men and zero VPs were African-American
Maya Kosoff / OneZero : Tweets: @dlberes , @medium , @cindygallop , @cindygallop , @jeremykonyndyk , and @mvzelenks Tweets: Damon Beres / @dlberes : .@mekosoff drops the hammer on Amazon's mostly whi...
Intel says it has achieved “full US workforce representation” 2 years ahead of 2020 goal and that US staff is 26.8% female, 9.2% Hispanic, 4.6% African American
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Harvard Business School study finds Airbnb hosts accepted guests with stereotypically black names 42% of the time versus 50% for white names
Study Finds Racial Discrimination by Airbnb Hosts — Renters with names that seemed African American had a harder time booking reservations …
Harvard Business School study finds Airbnb hosts accepted guests with stereotypically black names 42% of the time versus 50% for white names
Study Finds Racial Discrimination by Airbnb Hosts — Renters with names that seemed African American had a harder time booking reservations …