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San Francisco Weekly
It wasn’t until President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order temporarily banning Muslims from entering the country that Silicon Valley was said to have stepped into the political arena. The Economist, for instance, noted: "Tech firms are at last departing from their see-no-evil stance on society and politics." And on Super Bowl Sunday, more than 100 companies — including Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, and Twitter — filed a legal brief calling the ban discriminatory.
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Black Enterprise
Yes, we know diversity and inclusion in Silicon Valley is bad. However, a new study from OpenMIC shows the tech industry remains incessantly white and male, despite over a billion dollars invested to create a more diverse workforce.
The report shows a diverse company is a profitable company. Businesses in the top with more racial diversity among its staff have 35 percent higher financial returns that the "national median in their industry."
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CNN
They're helping to build some of tech's hottest companies. They're also immigrants who are already feeling the effects of the new administration.
When President Trump took office, he signed an executive order for "extreme vetting" of people from seven majority Muslim countries. He ordered the construction of a U.S.-Mexico wall. And he's considering an executive order to reevaluate and revamp various work visas.
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International Business Times
Diversity has been a major issue for Silicon Valley companies, and most go out of their way to tout their progress and initiatives. Apple is currently doing opposite, pushing back against shareholders who are calling for the company to accelerate its efforts.
A small group of shareholders led by investor Tony Maldonado have submitted a proposal to Apple asking the company to “adopt an accelerated recruitment policy ... to increase the diversity of senior management and its board of directors."
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San Francisco Gate
When Kourtni Marshall was growing up on the south side of Chicago, he didn't see any images of black computer programmers. Just imagining a future in which he would survive past 18 was hard enough.
But Marshall, now a software engineer at Google, hopes to inspire a new generation interested in technology by participating in a nationwide project that tries to combat stereotypical images of black men that depict them as suspects and thugs.
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Wired
Silicon Valley tech companies love to build super awesome campuses that their employees will never want to leave. Those college-like idylls are surefire crucibles for disruption. In-house catering, coffee shops, laundry services, nap rooms, and a slew of other perks have become industry standards. In downtown San Francisco, you can't thrown an iPhone without hitting two dudes bragging about their startup's nitro cold brew on tap.
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The New York Times
One afternoon last summer at BEAM 6, an experimental program in downtown Manhattan for youths with a high aptitude for math, a swarm of 11- and 12-year-olds jockeyed for a better view of a poster labeled "Week One Challenge Problem."
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The Mercury News
Floundering Yahoo has taken a moment off from its struggles to stand up against the administration of President Donald Trump.
The beleaguered Sunnyvale firm, in the midst of a fragile sale process to Verizon and staggering from its two record-setting breaches of users' personal data, on Feb. 17 signed onto a legal brief that opposes Trump's executive order temporarily banning refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.
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SHRM
Research shows that when a company embraces diversity, it can become more innovative and competitive. These traits are especially important for companies who continue to experience exponential growth, expand their applicant pool and hire more talent.
Diversity is integral to the ecosystem of a company because it enables an organization to innovate and adapt in a fast-changing environment.
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USA Today
A former female Magic Leap executive, who says she was hired to make the augmented reality startup "less of a boys club," has sued the tech company for unlawful sex discrimination.
The suit also alleges that the hostile work environment has lead to dysfunction, causing the Plantation, Fla.-headquartered company to miss deadlines.
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