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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia–(Newsfile Corp. – December 22, 2022) – Africa to Silicon Valley (A2SV) has announced that the organization has received funding from Google as part of the tech giant’s initiatives to support diverse African tech talent. A2SV upskills high-potential university students in Africa and connects students with software engineering opportunities at top companies. The program empowers students to work on real-world problems and make meaningful impacts in communities, thus also… Source link

New York City – October 27, 2022 – Verizon, Reset Digital and Yahoo announce a new partnership designed to help Verizon improve audience engagement through the use of Reset Digital’s advertising network. Since the pilot launch in August, 2022, the partnership has enabled Verizon to reach a new multicultural audience. “Reset Digital’s science and technology-driven approach can help us identify the right content for our audience, and can help us reach diverse audiences that represent… Source link

Every year critics decry the lack of Black executives atop companies on the Fortune 500 list. As of now, only four Black CEOs lead companies on the list, two of whom are women. But less attention gets paid to the dearth of non-white leaders at the tens of millions of small businesses nationwide. Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, a prominent Democrat and entrepreneur, in a new interview detailed the barriers that prevent women and people of color from launching and sustaining… Source link

For years, Google has sought to avoid algorithmic racial biases, which have proved embarrassing to the company and offensive to users. In 2015, the tech giant apologized after its photo app misidentified Black people as gorillas. Now Google is looking to address subtler signs of bias, including image results that have reinforced European standards of beauty and suggested that Black hair is unprofessional.  Google announced a raft of changes to its search engine in September, at an event… Source link