Silicon Valley’s Scarcest Resource: Technical Founders
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Skilled developers are Silicon Valley’s scarcest resource. With big companies throwing around giant salaries and startups competing fiercely for talent, the technical ability to build what they envision is often a make-or-break issue for new ventures. Which means tech industry entrepreneurs sort out into two distinct camps: those with coding skills and [...]
Read More3 Reasons Tomorrow’s Tech Industry Will Be More Culturally Diverse
The issue of diversity is frequently brought up across industries. It’s popularly framed in the context of top-level executive positions at Fortune 500 companies, head football coaching jobs and elected government officials. But what does this conversation look like when we discuss it in the context of digital media, given its prominence in today’s modern [...]
Read MoreJamaican Tech Entrepreneur Uses Crowdfunding for Caribbean Film
The planned return of passenger rail in Jamaica is what sparked tech entrepreneur, David Mullings’s interest in making a film. After talking to several people about his experience he learned that many people knew nothing about the train system in Jamaica. He wanted to do a short film that not only told a personal story [...]
Read MoreTech Giants and Musicians Team Up to Fight Famine in East Africa
The people of East Africa are currently dealing with a massive famine and humanitarian crisis. Save the Children is using a unique campaign, “I’m Gonna Be Your Friend” to raise money and awareness for its philanthropic work. Under the direction of Kevin MacDonald, the Save the Children put together a short video that shows the [...]
Read MoreNewMe Accelerator, Aiming To Encourage Black Tech Entrepreneurs, Has Its First Demo Day
Yesterday someone asked me whether the reason most of my avatar photos are silly is because otherwise I would have to deal with people constantly bringing up the fact that I don’t “look” like I should work in technology, meaning that I’m a (relatively not nerdy) woman. While I had never consciously thought about it, [...]
Read MoreNon Profit Tech Company Ushadhidi Wins Knight News Challenge
The Knight Foundation, a non-profit entity that is one of the biggest funders of media-related projects in the United States announced the winners of its annual $4.7-million News Challenge, one of them a being an African American led team from non profit tech company Ushahidi. Ushahidi, which means testimony in Swahili, specializes in developing free and open source [...]
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