BRANDON BAILEY, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple says it more than doubled the numbers of women, blacks and Hispanics hired in the last...
SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today) — Jesse Jackson is escalating his campaign for more racial and ethnic diversity in Silicon Valley. The civil rights leader called on...
(The Washington Post) – Yahoo disclosed last week that African Americans made up just 2 percent of its workers, while Hispanics stood at 4 percent. Those...
San Francisco (Times of Oman) – Facebook’s latest diversity numbers show that the company is still mostly white and male, underscoring the need for initiatives such...
SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today) – Animal rights activists, labor groups, environmentalists and transit riders were lined up near Seattle’s Space Needle Wednesday as Amazon’s annual shareholder...
BRANDON BAILEY, AP Technology Writer SANTA CLARA, California (AP) — Intel is launching a $125 million investment fund for technology startups led by women and minorities,...
MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google isn’t making much headway diversifying its workforce beyond white and Asian men, even though the Internet...
SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today) — When Apple sold $6.5 billion in bonds on Monday, the technology giant did something else behind the scenes: It tapped two minority...
MENLO PARK, Calif. (USA Today) — Maxine Williams is very visible on the Facebook campus. And not just because she’s one of the few black people...
KIMBERLY PIERCEALL, Associated Press ANICK JESDANUN, Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The tech industry says it wants more diversity in its workforce, but the actual...
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...
(Ars Technica) – In May 2014 at the all-girls Emma Willard School in upstate New York, nearly a third of the school’s 300+ students were preparing...
The Associated Press A proposal to expand the skin color options for emojis may get the thumbs up from those calling for more diversity in the...
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...
SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today) — Pandora Media may be headquartered in Oakland — one of the nation’s most racially diverse cities — but its workforce...
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...
Julie Snider, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today)– Facebook, the world’s most popular social network, released statistics on the makeup of its workforce that do...
(VentureBeat) – Yahoo’s employment base might be a tad bit more racially diverse than Google’s and LinkedIn’s, but it’s still got work to do. The search...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist Last week, Google made the bold and necessary decision to release information about their employment diversity, detailing the race...