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Almost 7 Months Later, Intel Still Hasn’t Found a New CEO
Intel Leadership in Limbo Back in June, Intel CEO Bryan Krzanich stepped down following the revelation of an extramarital affair with an employee. Now almost 7 months later, the chip giant does not appear close to finding a suitable replacement yet. Bob Swan, Intel’s chief financial officer, is filling the…
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Apple Store Manager Apologizes After Staff Accused of Racism in Shocking Video
Back in August, Tim Cook released a statement to Apple employees outlining the importance of diversity in the workforce. Shamefully, it seems the memo was never received by a security team in Australia. One member of staff was filmed ejecting 6 young schoolboys between the ages of 15 and 16.…
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Mozilla Set to Fire Employee Responsible for Hate Speech on Reddit
Mozilla’s CEO has vowed to fire an employee who was suspected of engaging in a vitriolic tirade on Reddit. The person in question used the alias, aoiyama and expressed joyous glee from the recent departure of Mozilla’s community organizer, Christie Koehler, and said: “Everyone was glad to see the back of her” “When…
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Intel Creates Venture Fund for Women and Minorities
After stepping out on the wrong foot during the GamerGate fiasco, Intel is seeking to make amends with their new $125M Intel Capital Diversity Fund. This comes after an announcement back in January of the creation of $300M Diversity in Technology initiative aimed at promoting diversity in the tech industry.…
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Twitter Paints ‘BlackLivesMatter’ Hashtag on its Office Wall
Twitter has made a habit out of painting political hashtags on the walls of its California offices. In the past, it has emblazoned #HeForShe, in support of gender equality, and #Ferguson, after the Michael Brown shooting, across its internal office walls. Now Twitter has unveiled #BlackLivesMatter, making clear its position…
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Facebook’s Diversity Report Revealed – Predominantly White Males Just Like Google
When Google released their diversity report about a month ago the results were fairly incendiary. Google was accused of sexism, racism, discrimination and much more but I think many people failed to acknowledge that Google can’t employ a diverse mixture of people if the pool of qualified personnel from which they…
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Google Reveals Low Employee Diversity: 61% White and 70% Male, Does it Matter?
Google recently released its first employee diversity report and the overall picture is that of low diversity: Google employees are predominantly men and predominantly white or Asian. While Google are currently being significantly criticised across a lot of the media right now for their low diversity the real question we should…
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Not Satisfied With Google Glass? Try Google Frames On You Own Personal Glasses
Google Glass had its fair share of ups and downs, with its announcement of features and specs, to getting fined and arrested for using them in the wrong place at the wrong time. But now Google has also delivered on its promise to release a frame version of the popular…
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