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Entrepreneurs and corporate leaders unite in support of Black-owned businesses

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When Jasper Kuria considers strategies for addressing racial inequity and social injustice in the U.S., Kuria is doing his part in trying to drum up awareness for the support of Black-owned businesses, sometimes called BOBs, including a social media campaign dubbed “Do The BOB.” BOB Photo). BOB Image).

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

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Meanwhile, the 2022 State of Tech Diversity: The Black Tech Ecosystem report from the NAACP and Kapor Center, a nonprofit addressing racial inequities in STEM education and the tech industry, found that the proportion of Black students receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science decreased between 2016 and 2020, going from 9% to 8%.

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Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

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based social media management platform Hootsuite named Tom Keiser as its new CEO. He previously spent five years at Microsoft, where he was a product manager for Bing and MSN Analytics. Microsoft alum Rahul Auradkar was named chief product officer of New York-based financial technology platform Capitolis. Vancouver, B.C.-based

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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At the market research firm she specializes in the future of finance, working mainly with brands in B2B and financial industries. She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Reyhan Huseynova. Location: Azerbaijan. Ayesha Khanna.

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