Now more than 40 communities are committed to helping Americans get access to IT educations and jobs.
One year ago, President Obama announced a new initiative aimed at filling America’s 500,000 vacant tech jobs. The TechHire initiative has two goals: make it easier for people to obtain an IT education, and help employers find and hire these people based on their actual skills, rather than requiring a computer science degree. Today, the president announced the program is expanding.
The company is already responding to customer queries at @AppleSupport—so you can stop tweeting in vain to @Apple.
Apple has long shied away from Twitter. While the company has opened accounts for specific products like Apple Music and iTunes, Apple has opted not to have a main account (which explains the many confused queries directed at @Apple, an account that has never tweeted but boasts 37,400 followers). But on Thursday, Apple started the account @AppleSupport, which will field customer service inquiries and offer tips, tutorials, and other information.
“Secure communications are fundamental to the exercise of freedom of opinion and expression in the digital age,” the UN’s David Kaye wrote in an amicus brief.
David Kaye, the free speech rapporteur for the United Nations, has expressed his support for Apple in its encryption impasse with the FBI, BuzzFeed News reports. For the past two weeks, Apple has pushed back against a court order requesting that the company grant the FBI access to San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook’s iPhone.
A new study examines the reasons why women are less likely to be considered for positions abroad.
Moving employees through different departments gives them a more holistic experience of a company. Moving them to offices in other countries is not only good for their personal career growth, but is also a positive driver of business success, according to data from PwC.
You don’t need to be married to your job in order to get ahead.
Advancing in your career means putting in more hours, taking on more assignments, and becoming “married to your job,” right? No, say career coaches. Overachievers who live at the office tend to burn out fast and often neglect doing the very things they need to do in order to advance. In doing too much, they do too little. Being 100% committed to your work doesn’t guarantee you a promotion. So how can you get ahead without making work your life?
As Uber continues its $250 million expansion in the Middle East and North Africa, it’s adjusting its service to address local issues.
Uber launched in Pakistan on Thursday, but drivers in the country, unlike those in most of Uber’s 69 markets, will need to attend a seminar about sexual harassment before they can accept passengers through the ride-hailing app.
The company’s CEO, Andy Conrad: The most important tool in medicine is a computer
Anyone can use a search engine like Google to locate the nearest seafood restaurant, or the best school in their neighborhood. But medical researchers don’t have an easy way to type in questions and receive meaningful answers.
Comments sections are increasingly useless and nasty. Hypothes.is thinks it has a better way to make the Internet more democratic.
Larry Hanley, an English professor at San Francisco State University, is the kind of man who aggressively annotates his books. He believes a particularly beautiful verse of poetry deserves to be underlined; a thought-provoking line of prose requires an equally intelligent comment scribbled next to it. In his classroom, he gently nudges his students to engage with books by writing notes in the margins.
You probably spend nearly half your workweek in meetings, and most of them have no agenda. Here’s seven steps to make them less painful.
Meetings are like burpees: They drain your energy and nobody likes them. About 40% of the average workweek is spent in meetings, and more than half of participants would rather be waiting in line at the DMV or watching paint dry, according to a poll by software company Clarizen.
The service had less than 54,000 pay TV subscribers at the end of 2015—and growth is slowing.
Research firm MoffettNathanson has issued a scathing report saying Alphabet is having serious subscriber and growth issues with the pay TV service part of its Google Fiber offerings, reports Re/code. The report says Fiber had just 53,390 pay TV subscribers at the end of 2015. That’s up from 30,000 at the end of 2014, but growth is slowing. In the last six months of 2014, Fiber’s pay TV service grew 136%, but in the last six months of 2015 it only grew 78.8%.
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