Yahoo has donated 200 servers to Howard University and The University of Texas at El Paso as part of an effort to encourage diverse populations at the respective universities to pursue careers in computer science and technology.
What if you could pinpoint the characteristics that make your top talent so good, and use that info to identify new recruits? Online social learning and collaboration platform Piazza is rolling out a new feature set that it claims allows you to do just that.
The lack of gender or racial diversity in the tech industry is a well known issue and there are already a number of people and organizations making efforts to combat it . It is a movement that is quickly gaining some momentum.
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The tech industry's complicated and sorry treatment of women has become a big topic.
Lawsuits have helped blow up the issue. Most notably, former Kleiner Perkins partner Ellen Pao filed a discrimination suit against the venture capital giant last year, lost the suit this year, and recently dropped her planned appeal.