Earlier this year, a Fortune article came out that shed light on the fact that out of the top 10 highest-paid CEOs on Equilar’s 2016 list of 100, four of them are women, which is double that of 2015. Interestingly enough, three of those four women are CEOs in tech, which is an industry that […]
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Interim Equifax CEO Searches for Tech Solutions Following Major Security Breach
From roughly mid-May through July, hackers had access to the sensitive information of 143 million Americans due to a major data breach at Equifax, one of three of the country’ major credit reporting bureaus. According to the Federal Trade Commission, consumers’ names, Social Security numbers (SSNs), dates of birth, home addresses, and driver’s license numbers […]
4 Tech Conferences to Attend to Close Out 2017
Artificial intelligence and cloud computing — these industries quite literally never sleep. A great way to stay in the know about what’s coming in the industry is to attend conferences. Conferences are a great way for your company to stay agile. You’ll learn about new and evolving technologies and discover what new tech breakthroughs can […]
Tech and Politics Continue to Collide: Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and others speak out about DACA
On Tuesday, September 5th, President Trump decided to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program amid many calls to keep the program, especially from the tech industry. Dubbed the “Dreamers” program by supporters, the immigration policy was passed by an executive order during Obama’s presidency to allow undocumented immigrants who came to the […]
Damore’s Google Memo Reignites a Divided Truth in Tech
It’s no secret that women in the tech industry, or any one of the STEM fields, walks on a much thinner tightrope than her male counterparts. It can be very difficult to get to the other side when you’ve got people wiggling an already slim string under your feet. But that doesn’t stop women from […]
Cybercrime Spike Expected To Create 3.5 Million Jobs in Cybersecurity by 2021
Cybersecurity Ventures just released a report estimating that by 2021, there will be 3.5 million available cybersecurity jobs that will remain unfilled, three times as many as those that were unfilled in 2016, highlighting a major and growing labor crisis in the global cybersecurity industry. In the U.S. specifically: The cybersecurity industry employs approximately 780,000 […]