Google has decided to discontinue its goal of increasing hires from historically underrepresented groups and is reevaluating DEI…
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Apple taps ex-BofA banking exec as latest diversity chief
Apple has hired a new diversity chief for the fourth time in recent years. Banking veteran Cynthia Bowman is taking over the role…
Apple investors call for civil-rights audit
Apple has declared its commitment to racial and gender equity, but it is now facing a shareholder call for a civil-rights audit amid…
Apple bans employees’ pay equity Slack channel
Apple has banned employees from creating a Slack channel to discuss pay equity which has been a hot topic among Apple employees over…
Apple continues inclusive push with new emoji
Apple Inc. is releasing new variants of its holding hands emoji that allow people to pick any combination of skin tone and gender…
New California state law mandates female board directors by 2019
California will require publicly listed companies with headquarters in the state to have…
Researchers say AI could hurt people of color and the poor
Artificial intelligence could fundamentally change the world while contributing to…
Apple CEO Cook meets with members of the Congressional Black Caucus to discuss diversity
For members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who arrived in the Bay Area on Monday, the tech sector…
Black lawmakers will visit Silicon Valley next week to talk to Apple about diversity
A record number of black lawmakers will be visiting Silicon Valley next week to ask executives at Apple…
Apple’s VP of Inclusion and Diversity leaving at year’s end
Apple’s first-ever vice president of diversity and inclusion, Denise Young Smith…
Apple, other tech firms join LGBT cause in U.S. Supreme Court wedding cake case
A handful of tech companies have signed onto a friend of the court brief in the case of the Colorado baker…
Apple diversity chief Denise Young Smith apologizes to staff for statements made at summit
Apple VP of Inclusion and Diversity Denise Young Smith on Friday issued an internal memo to apologize…
Apple’s first ever VP of diversity and inclusion says she focuses on everyone, not just minorities
Denise Young Smith is Silicon Valley’s most powerful black woman…
Fired Google engineer Damore says the company is hiring and promoting workers based on race or gender
I’m saying that people that go into tech are interested in ‘things’ versus ‘people’ generally…
James Damore: Why I was fired by Google
I was fired by Google this past Monday for a document that I wrote and circulated internally…
Street artist mocks Google in ads posted outside company offices following Damore firing
The politics of Google has been in the spotlight since the online giant seemingly fired an employee for challenging liberal orthodoxy…
Here’s why the tech industry doesn’t need more female software engineers
I feel quite strongly that people should stop trying to get women into coding and software engineering…
Apple’s Jony Ive says immigration vital for post-Brexit UK
Technology hubs like Silicon Valley had a “tremendous cultural diversity”…
Apple’s new Vice President of Inclusion and Diversity will report directly to CEO Tim Cook
Apple’s head of Worldwide Human Resources Denise Young Smith will now run diversity programs…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘U.S. will lose its leadership in technology’ unless more women are hired
Apple CEO Tim Cook says that society, including the tech community, is not moving fast enough on issues like equal rights and diversity…
Apple’s board has urged shareholders to reject proposal to tie executive compensation to racial diversity quotas
Apple shareholders will decide next week whether to force the tech giant to diversify its leadership…
Apple Inc. fights shareholders group demand for more diversity
Silicon Valley has a long way to go on diversity, but most tech companies would argue…
Apple says it now pays women, men, whites and minorities equally in the U.S.
Apple says that it has achieved its goal of establishing equal pay for women and men…
Apple touts diversity of recent hires
Apple Inc. Wednesday reported small increases in the share of women and minorities working at the tech giant…
Tim Cook is still America’s biggest LGBT power player
Since coming out publicly in 2014, the Apple CEO has vocally supported diversity, most recently donating iPads and Macs in 29 states…
Apple tops (short) list of tech companies where women report equal treatment
The technology sector can be a lonely place for women workers…
Apple lawyer claims he was fired over Muslim faith
Feras Mousilli says Apple failed to accommodate his religious rights…
Apple inches toward workforce diversity
Apple’s diversity divide narrowed a smidgen over the past year, with its global workforce gaining ever so slightly…
Diversity report shows Apple’s U.S. workforce still mainly white and male
Apple’s U.S. workforce is a bit more diverse than it was a year ago, but still predominantly white and male…
Apple’s Board of Directors says a call for diversity is ‘unduly burdensome and not necessary’
Apple’s eight-member board is dominated by white men, with three exceptions…
Shareholder resolution looks to force Apple to put more ‘people of color’ in high-profile positions
Apple Inc. shareholders could make history next year by deciding whether the company should be forced to increase the number of non-white executives and directors…
Twitter hires Apple’s director of inclusion and diversity
Twitter Inc hired a former Apple Inc employee as its vice president of diversity and inclusion…
Apple leads Facebook, Intel, Cisco, Google on gender diversity among Bay Area companies
Gender diversity in the San Francisco Bay Area technology sector has improved over the last five years…
Apple CEO Cook: Corporations need to step up where governments don’t, can’t, or won’t
As CEO, one of the things Tim Cook has brought to Apple is a greater push to address social problems…
Apple’s latest diversity report shows progress
In the United States, Apple has increased its hiring of black and hispanic employees by…
Tim Cook is ‘personally involved’ in improving diversity at Apple Inc.
Apple knows it needs to do more to encourage diversity…
Women in IT security: ‘It is a lopsided team in the field’
Women account for less than 11 percent of info security jobs…
Apple resurrects original six-color rainbow logo to celebrate diversity
Apple® today announced that the company will resurrect the original rainbow Apple logo…
Apple donates over $50 million to diversity efforts
The stark lack of diversity in Silicon Valley is on the agenda at Apple…
Some Asians angered by Apple’s ‘racist’ yellow emoji
In an effort to better represent society, Apple has revealed…
Apple to deliver new racially diverse emoji
Your iPhone’s emoji are about to get a lot more racially diverse…
Apple CEO Tim Cook met privately with Jesse Jackson regarding diversity
Apple CEO Tim Cook met privately with Rev. Jesse Jackson on Monday…
