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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

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In 2019, for example, Google reported its attrition rates of Black and Latinx talent — which indicate the rate at which employees leave on an annual basis — were higher than the national average. Meanwhile, we’re seeing ads for Yes on 22 inside on-demand apps. Send me an email at megan@techcrunch.com .

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MakerSquare Wants to Teach You to Become a Developer in Weeks

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With the growing need for Software Engineers at technology, entertainment and media companies in the Los Angeles area, Hack Reactor, which has three founders who are University of Southern California graduates, identified fertile ground for MakerSquare to educate, train and mentor technologists in Southern California. “Los

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. Yes, Google won. ”).

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. I wanted several of the software engineers to join me at our next startup but their employment was tied to BuildOnline. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

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Co-founder and lead software developer Anil Kumar was a led software engineer for WebEx. Our client software is a true browser plug-in (no Flash) that’s based on Google’s WebRTC open source project. What inspired you to come up with the idea?