A USA TODAY/Stanford Diversity in Tech summit last week included Jesse Jackson and executives from Google and Facebook. Letters to the editor: I am an African-American tech entrepreneur and co-founder of Tuloko, an Internet business. Our firm has been featured on CNN, recognized by Harvard Business...
Tristan Walker is successful by anyone's standards: He went to a top-notch prep school, graduated as valedictorian at college, went on to become a trader on Wall Street, earned an MBA at Stanford, and then helped to launch the location app Foursquare. But what makes Walker...
EcoTech Visions, a new business incubator designed to assist entrepreneurs in creating, planning and launching innovative and “green” manufacturing businesses in South Florida, will host its inaugural event from 4-6 p.m. Nov. 20 at its facility, 667 NW 90th St. More than 200-plus guests are expected...
Google Inc.GOOGL +0.28% is hedging its bets as it prepares for a future when our laptops and smartphones will be antiquated technology. In one of the largest venture-capital deals on record, the tech giant and a slew of well-heeled firms are investing $542 million in Magic...
When you question the lack of diversity in the tech world, you often get the same response. It goes something like this: Tech companies are predominantly white and male, not because tech companies are racist or sexist, but because most applicants for tech jobs are...