Jessica Guyunn, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today)—The growing effort to get more African Americans and Hispanics to join tech companies or start their own...
SUDHIN THANAWALA, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An attorney hired by one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious venture capital firms to investigate a complaint of...
SUDHIN THANAWALA, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An attorney hired by one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious venture capital firms to investigate a complaint of...
SUDHIN THANAWALA, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A sex discrimination trial against one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious venture capital firms is providing a rare...
(The Verge) – There’s a new map of entrepreneurial hotspots in California, and it’s here to show you where the “real” Silicon Valley is. By...
Roger Yu and Mike Snider, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today)—The fight over net neutrality played out in a doubleheader of Congressional hearings on Wednesday, with...
(New York Times) – To the list of jobs threatened by the Internet, add one more: insurance agent. Technology start-ups, and companies from the insurance industry,...
Alexei Oreskovic and Bill Rigby, REUTERS (Reuters)—Virtual reality goggles, drones and data centers are all driving a hiring spree at Facebook Inc (FB.O) that is...
NEW YORK (USA Today) — Black Enterprise magazine on Tuesday released a list of the 40 best companies for diversity — and not a single Silicon Valley...
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – After making Silicon Valley’s boldest commitment to diversity, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich will headline Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project’s 18th annual convention...
PALO ALTO, Calif. (USA Today) — Even here in Silicon Valley, where this generation’s brightest minds dream up big ideas to smash the status quo, Tristan...
(Business Week) – During the economy’s slow crawl back from recession, many companies have cut out lavish holiday parties. But with the Nasdaq up 11 percent...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief SANTA CLARA, Calif. (NNPA) – Jesse Jackson says it is “outrageous” that high tech firms based in Silicon Valley hire...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive and dreaming today, his ‘I Have a Dream’...
SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today) — In the tense days after an unarmed black teen was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., Justin...
HAVEN DALEY, Associated Press WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A Silicon Valley startup has developed technology to let dispatchers know when a police officer’s weapon has been...
MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Retired Los Angeles Laker Magic Johnson became famous for dishing out assists to his teammates during...
by C. Kelly Special to the NNPA from The Michigan Citizen Technology is fundamentally changing the world in which we live. Just as the 1880s...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The industry that bills itself a meritocracy actually looks more like a mirrortocracy.” — Mitch Kapor, co-chair of the Kapor Center...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (NNPA) – After he completes his campaign for more diversity in Silicon Valley, Jesse Jackson plans to expand...
MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple primarily relies on white and Asian men for its top-paying technology jobs, feeding the perception that...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist The nation’s digital technology and social media companies are helping to transform how people throughout the world communicate and...
SAN FRANCISCO — For years, sex workers have been the entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley that no one talks about. But with money flowing from the...
(The Guardian)—IBM is to invest $3bn (£1.7bn) over the next five years in chip research and development in hopes of finding a game-changing breakthrough that can help...
Barbara Ortutay, ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Some 1 billion people are now using Android devices, Google said as the company kicked off its two-day developer...
