A new global coalition will work to advance workplace equality for LGBT employees.
The Human Rights Campaign announced a new global coalition of companies at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative on Tuesday committed to making workplaces around the world fair and equal for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees. The founding members of the coalition include Google, IBM, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, and AT&T.
At the company’s Minds + Machines event in San Francisco today, GE unveiled a range of new Industrial Internet offerings.
In a video touting General Electric’s new initiative to get more than 20,000 people building for Predix.io, the company’s new dedicated cloud environment for app developers, we see a young engineer telling his friends he’s going to work for GE. His friends are utterly flummoxed.
In an economy that values STEM skills, is it possible to study philosophy and still get a job when you graduate?
To hear policymakers and higher-education wonks tell it, there’s a now chasm separating what high-tech industries need in order to stay competitive and the skills current students can offer once they’re old enough to work for them. It’s called the STEM gap, shorthand for all the science, technology, engineering, and medical knowledge that not enough of the next generation of American workers are picking up. And not only is it widening, it’s opening fissures in non-STEM fields as well, as technology transforms industries that didn’t used to need data scientists or programmers but now do.
Knowing what happens when you meet in person can help you decide when it’s justified, and when it doesn’t matter.
In the debate over whether people should work in the office, or remotely, the in-the-office folks have one good point. A lot of things happen when we interact face-to-face that don’t necessarily happen virtually.
Is entrepreneurship an answer to America’s high recidivism rate? Fast Company explores one man’s path from prison to self-sufficiency.
Guys like us just want a chance to work and better ourselves, but that’s not so easy when you’ve served time. Your record is public information; it’s on Google. I have a lot of accomplishments to my name, but the first thing that people see when they look me up is my time in prison. You look around you at people who have no hope for a better life and it starts to wash off on you.
Angel LaCourt, 28
Late Show co-executive producer Emily Lazar calls the unconventional lineup shots—and she’s changing the late-night landscape.
So far, Stephen Colbert has not completely re-wired the late-night television machine with his particular brand of arch, sharp comedy. He still knows how to go star-powered clip to star-powered clip with the viral-mad Jimmys—Fallon and Kimmel—by, say, pondering life’s mysteries with Scarlett Johansson or “silly walking” with Lupita Nyong’o. And his writing staff, as with many shows, is rather light on female talent.
The goal is to be not so much future-proof, as future-compatible.
Yesterday, Huffington Post CEO Jared Grusd announced at Advertising Week that the Post, the 10-year-old news aggregator and publishing empire founded by Arianna Huffington in 2005, was working with Code and Theory on a massive network redesign. But while site redesigns generally revolve around page layouts, new logos, font choices, and color schemes, the Huffington Post is taking a broader view. More than just a redesign, it’s a reconception of a blogging behemoth that racks up over 240 million page views every month.
“At the end of the day, I still want people to look at this car and think, I want to get in and drive it!”
Years in the making, Tesla’s new Model X is the safest SUV ever created, according to CEO Elon Musk.
After many years of delays, Tesla has finally released its new Model X SUV to the public—and the car sure is worth the wait.
Shopify, Bigcommerce, and Demandware are the latest companies to partner with Twitter to bring e-commerce to tweets.
The next time you spot a pair of rad sneakers or a handmade iPhone case on Twitter, it may be dangerously easy to have it shipped to your door. That’s because more tweets will be affixed with a “Buy” button, thanks to new partnerships Twitter is announcing today.
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