In Technology Field, Minorities Have Degrees, but Don’t Get Hired Accordingly

Businesspeople talking in server room
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Top universities turn out black and Hispanic computer science and computer engineering graduates at twice the rate that leading technology companies hire them, a USA TODAY analysis shows.

Pastor Jamal Bryant Wants You to Be Aware of Social Media Fraudulents

Pastor Jamal Bryant

Rev. Dr. Jamal-Harrison Bryant released this special message on Facebook:

Facebook’s Snapchat-like “Slingshot” App Now Available

Slingshot

The worst-kept secret in social networking arrives today in the U.S.: Facebook’s Slingshot app is now available for iOS and Android owners.

Ohio Woman Sues Hospital After Her Medical Record Was Posted to Facebook

University of Cincinnati Medical Center

An Ohio woman whose medical record was posted to Facebook, revealing her name and a syphilis diagnosis, has sued the hospital where she was treated and the worker who accessed her information.

Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft Employ Encryption for Emails to Foil Surveillance

Google says a majority of its email traffic is now encrypted. / AP

The volume of email cloaked in encryption technology is rapidly rising as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other major Internet companies try to shield their users’ online communications from government spies and other snoops.

What Age Group is Really Responsible for Starting the Most New Businesses?

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Entrepreneurship is a young man’s hustle. This is a notion that’s been held by many for years. We’ve all heard the stories about the 20-something year-old tech geniuses who built multi-million dollar corporations from their garages before they turned thirty.

Google says Lack of Diversity in its Staff is a “Problem”, Vows to Make-Up for It

Thirty percent of Google’s employees are women, the company said, a figure that’s 17 percentage points less than the representation of women in the full United States workforce. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)

Google Inc. (GOOG:US) turned the spotlight onto the diversity of its workforce, saying that the composition of its staff “is not where it needs to be.”