Diversity numbers at most tech companies are pretty dismal, but some of the biggest players are using these strategies to change the ratio.
Working on making Buffer an inclusive place where all kinds of people feel they belong and thrive is one of my favorite things.
Records management doesn’t just mean finding files when you need them—it also means knowing nobody else can find them once they’re deleted.
In a study released last month, secure data management firms Kroll Ontrack and Blancco Technology Group found that in a set of used hard drives bought online, nearly half came with data left behind by previous owners.
Gaining social media momentum means building something bigger than yourself and your brand.
Retailers may be gearing up for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but there’s another phenomenon fast spreading online—Giving Tuesday—the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving (December 1 this year), which encourages people and organizations around the world to give to meaningful causes.
New global research shows that millennials are optimistic, but cities may not be equipped to serve them.
Perhaps you’ve heard that millennials have become the largest generation in the workplace, surpassing gen X this year, according to Pew Research. To accommodate this new group of workers and leaders, employers have had to evolve their practices around productivity and engagement.
The subscription service Quip is like Birchbox for your mouth. Will Americans bite?
Technology has revolutionized the world of oral health. Our dentists have fancy power tools to clean off our plaque. We can buy industrial-strength electric toothbrushes to ensure no part of our mouths are left unscrubbed. Walking down the drugstore aisles, we are confronted by an overwhelming number of toothpaste options, from versions that whiten your teeth to those made for consumers with sensitive mouths.
The company Mark Zuckerberg created now has 12,000 employees. But it’s doing its best to keep on acting like a scrappy startup.
The most interesting thing about Facebook’s new headquarters in Menlo Park, California—humbly known as “Building 20,” and connected to the nearby, ex-Sun Microsystems campus the company has occupied since 2012 by Disneyland-style trams—isn’t that it was designed by Frank Gehry. It isn’t even that it’s one sprawling, 434,000-square-foot room, topped off with a (windy) roof park.
Join the Black Friday madness and feel good about where your money is going.
This Black Friday, as other retailers trip over themselves to offer the cheapest products to frenzied mobs, the online clothing company Everlane is taking a different approach. Nothing will be on sale—the clothes will sell for what the company considers a fair value—and all of the profits will go directly to help the workers who sew T-shirts in the company’s L.A. factory.
Patrick Awuah, a 2015 MacArthur Fellow, founded a university to educate Africa’s future leaders. He also plays Words With Friends.
In September, the MacArthur Foundation awarded Patrick Awuah one of its “genius” fellowships for his work bringing higher education to Ghana. After attending college in the U.S. and working for Microsoft as an engineer, Awuah returned to his home country in 2002 to found Asheshi University in Accra. Since that time it’s been established as one of Ghana’s top-notch universities, with programming that focuses on battling corruption in Ghana while addressing gender, ethnic, and economic inequality.
Work and parenting are rarely separate in the life of Austin Film Festival founder Barbara Morgan.
Just after the birth of her daughter, Barbara Morgan held a staff meeting in the maternity ward. The hospital wasn’t happy about it, and others may have questioned it later, but Morgan didn’t care.
Researchers now believe there are three different kinds of type 2 diabetes—a result discovered with help from machines combing through reams of medical data.
With the cost to sequence a human genome dropping by the day and medical records finally going digital, public health experts are excited for a new era of personalized, or “precision,” medicine—a big data future in which there is no “average” patient, only individual patients with unique genes, environments, and lifestyles. As a measure of this excitement, this year, President Obama launched a $215 million initiative that will create a health database from 1 million volunteers that is unprecedented in detail. Breakthroughs in prevention, understanding, and treatment of disease are hoped.
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