Often criticized in the past as well-intentioned but stagnant, corporate diversity departments at major organizations have never been so visible. With Google yesterday pledging a substantial sum to Code2040, a nonprofit fostering diversity in Technology, and several key players in Silicon Valley publishing their lackluster...
At the tech giant, only 23% of the staff are women, but management is addressing talent drain from the top down. Padmasree Warrior loves high heels. Yet as an engineer just starting out in her career, she ditched the heels for more modest shoes. The technologist...
On Sunday, March 15 Tech.Co will once again present Tech Cocktail’s Startup Celebration at SXSWi where more than two dozen startups will showcase their product and deliver their pitch in hopes of winning prizes, glory, and a spot at the Tech Cocktail Celebrate Conference as...
Regardless of one’s race, a brain is a brain and an idea is an idea. Whether you have the same skin tone as another person or not, you both have a mind very capable of great things. Hypothetically, if you had a team of scientists,...
Upfront Ventures partner Mark Shuster announced Chamillionaire as the company's new “Entrepreneur In Residence” in an article published in Bothsidesofthetable.com Sunday (February 22). “A while back Chamillionaire started telling me he wanted to immerse himself even more in the tech world – learning to build products,...
Code Fever and Black Tech Week co-founder Felecia Hatcher at The LAB Miami A groundbreaking inaugural conference celebrating innovators of color kicks off Monday in South Florida. Black Tech Week, Feb. 23-28, the brainchild of Miami-based nonprofit Code Fever, promises to be a weeklong series of events...