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Should Women that code be “leaning in” or “leaning to one side”?
Lately it seems that women are making some inroads at the top end of business.  Just this week we saw UK ITV News editor Deborah Turness Named President of NBC News. There are now 20 female CEOs running America’s largest companies. That paltry number (4%) is actually a record. The reason ...

 

Should Women that code be “leaning in” or “leaning to one side”?
Lately it seems that women are making some inroads at the top end of business.  Just this week we saw UK ITV News editor Deborah Turness Named President of NBC News. There are now 20 female CEOs running America’s largest companies. That paltry number (4%) is actually a record. The reason ...

 

Yahoo-Tumblr $1.1bn deal - promise "not to screw it up"
Yahoo promised "not to screw it up" as it formally announced its acquisition of the Tumblr blogging platform for $1.1bn ahead of the US stock market opening on Monday. "Tumblr is redefining creative expression online," the Yahoo chief executive, Marissa Mayer, said in a statement. "On many levels, ...

 

Stopping Sex Trafficking in the US
For most Americans the horrors of sex trafficking and exploitation conjure up thoughts of faraway countries like Bangkok or Cameroon. But young girls are bought and sold for their bodies right in our own backyard, from Los Angeles to New York. American girls ages 16 to 19 are the prime victims of r...

 

Deborah Turness Named President of NBC News
After just over a week of rumours circulating circulating that ITV News editor Deborah Turness was on the verge of being named president of NBC News, Pat Fili-Krushel made it official that Turness will take the reins in August. Turness becomes the first woman to run a network news organiz...

 
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