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500 Startups To Raise $200 Million For Fourth Fund
(Image: Wikipedia) Accelerator and seed investor 500 Startups has set out to raise a $200 million fourth fund, after recently closing a third one with $85 million. The five-year-old company is an...
View Article[TechConnext Summit] Get Your Game On
Attention gamers—you’re invited to join in on an exclusive opportunity to dip your joystick into the Silicon Valley gaming pool on October 12-13 at the inaugural Black Enterprise TechConneXt Summit,...
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Google CFO: Hiring Women is Good for Business
Google CFO Ruth Porat This article was originally published on CNET.com on Oct. 7, 2015. New Google finance chief Ruth Porat, who has been called Wall Street’s most powerful woman, is not alone in her...
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Censorship is Bad; This Writer’s Take on Diversity in Tech is Worse
Censorship is never good. That’s why I can muster sympathy for Writer Brian S. Hall and his indignation over Forbes‘ apparent removal of his article There Is No Diversity Crisis In Tech. According to...
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Diversifying Google: Meet Three Black Google Engineers
As tech companies continue to share diversity statistics with the public, it’s clear there is still a lot of work to do to boost inclusion in tech. Yet, people of color are working at some of the...
View ArticleRep. Cleaver: African American Inclusion In Tech Is “Common Sense”
Representative Emanuel Cleaver, (D-MO 5th District) composed an op-ed for The Hill, urging “common sense” steps to increase the inclusion of African Americans in the technology industry. [Related:...
View ArticleIntel Leads the Charge For Diversity and Inclusion in Tech
Intel is one tech company that not only ‘talks the diversity and inclusion talk,’ but really walks the walk. The company released its annual diversity data and the gains it has made with regard to...
View Article‘Disrupted’ Book Shows Age is the New Black in Silicon Valley
The tech industry has a habit of keeping outsiders at arms’ length—namely, women and people of color. Yet, many who don’t fit either demographic are also finding themselves at odds with Silicon Valley...
View ArticleSnapchat Goes ‘Al Jolson’ with Blackface Filter
In honor of 4/20 day, (the unofficial celebration of marijuana day) Snapchat caused outrage by offering a filter allowing its users to make themselves resemble Bob Marley, including adorning a user’s...
View ArticleEx-Twitter Engineer Rants About Diversity, Gets Hired by Slack
The squeaky wheel gets comeuppance. Former Twitter engineer, Leslie Miley, who wrote a Medium blog post blasting Twitter’s lack of diversity, has been hired on by Slack. [Related: Black Tech Founder...
View ArticleTaskRabbit Implements African American Inclusion Plan
Barely a month into her position, the new CEO of sharing-economy-services company TaskRabbit, Stacy Brown-Philpot, has implemented a diversity and inclusion plan for TaskRabbit in cooperation with the...
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The Road to TechConneXt: Stewart Butterfield, CEO, Slack
Perhaps no technological advancement has contributed more to the decline of email, changing the way we collaborate and communicate at work, than Slack. Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield is one of the...
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Farewell Facebook: Bärí A. Williams Joins StubHub
We first introduced Bärí A. Williams, Esq., to BlackEnterprise.com approximately a year ago, in the article Paving Your Road to Silicon Valley. In an interview with Dr. Atira Charles, Bärí shared some...
View ArticleLawsuit Alleges Tesla Turned Blind Eye to Racism
A California civil rights group filed a lawsuit against vehicle maker Tesla, alleging the company did not adequately respond to complaints from an African American employee of racial harassment....
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I Just Judged My First Black Girls Code Hackathon
Last Sunday, I was asked to judge a Black Girls Code hackathon. The event, hosted by Colgate-Palmolive, was a glimpse into how truly innovative a diverse tech world would be. The girls—who ranged in...
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Boz Is the Wonder Woman Uber (and Diversity in Tech) Needs Now
Before likely even stepping a high-fashion shoe into her office at Uber as the company’s new Chief Brand Officer, Bozoma Saint John is already enacting change. (Image: Facebook/Bozoma Saint John)...
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