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Tech Coalition Will Honor 10 Black Innovators at SXSW

What do a vocal diversity in tech advocate, an eleven-year-old entrepreneur, an HBCU professor and a tech novice all have in common?

‘Black Girls Code’ aims to reboot diversity in tech

When Kimberly Bryant was in college in the '80s, she felt culturally isolated in her electrical engineering classes. "I was one of maybe two or three students of color," said Bryant, who is African-American. "And I found that representation was still the same when I graduated and began my career."

Y Combinator accepts first tech diversity non-profit

Makinde Adeagbo has left his engineering job at Pinterest to work full-time on /dev/color, the nonprofit support network for black software engineers that he founded.

PwC Report: Cybercrime on the Rise

Cybercrimes like data breaches are getting lots of attention these days. But does the average company need to worry about them? The answer is a resounding yes, according to a survey from PricewaterhouseCooper, which found that cybercrime has become the second most common type of economic crime.