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Pinterest is in the market for female engineers. While the social media network has an overwhelmingly female user base — 71 percent of its 72.5 million users are women, according to comScore — it lacks diversity in its workforce. Expect that to change in 2016.
We’re nearing the dog days of August, which can only mean one thing: time to decide what books to take along on your much needed end-of-summer vacation. To help you out, the Inner Circle has come up with a totally subjective list — and in no particular order — of the 10 best business books...
Welcome to our latest installment of “A Minute With …,” where we ask our board members a few questions about work and life. This week we chatted with Laura Hnatow, director of marketing and e-commerce for Sea Bags, a Portland, Maine-based manufacturer and retailer of handcrafted tote bags and accessories from recycled sails. Prior to...
We all know that the U.S. economy has been slow to recover from the Great Recession. In fact, some are suggesting that we may have slipped back into a recession. Slow growth has become the new normal for our economy, and economists all have their theories on why, but an interesting one emerged this week:...
Here at Women in Retail Leadership Circle (WIRLC), we view social media as a means for us to continue the conversation within our community of women retail leaders who believe in the same mission we do — creating an engaging network of smart, inspiring women. We want to make sure you have the opportunity to...
Dick’s Sporting Goods announced this Monday that it’s launching a specialty women’s fitness and lifestyle boutique. The omnichannel sporting goods retailer is naming the stores Chelsea Collective after the diverse and eclectic Chelsea neighborhood in New York City. The first two Chelsea Collective stores will be located in Pittsburgh, Dick’s Sporting Goods hometown, and Tyson’s...
As many of us know, lactating is natural body function. However, that doesn’t mean it’s easy — especially for working moms on the go. In an effort to alleviate some of the logistical complications associated with lactating — and perhaps even to help attract and retain female employees — IBM will begin offering a breast...
As our online worlds expand, the opportunity for targeted ads and promoted content to infiltrate our Facebook news feeds continues to grow. Algorithms shape the everyday online community we immerse ourselves in — the suggested Facebook friends we should make, the search results we see on Google and the trending news we should be following on Twitter. The data collected is considered objective, at least most of the time. However, as the Internet of Things becomes more prevalent, the research of human influence on these algorithms and big data software says otherwise. As a result, it seems facts do have a bias.
If your company sells its products on Amazon.com, are you prepared for the onslaught of traffic and sales today? What you ask? What’s so special about a random Wednesday in July? If you haven’t heard — and I’m sure most of you have by now — today is the inaugural Amazon Prime Day. The online...
As far as software updates go, the one launched by Facebook last week seems relatively minor. The social network simply tweaked its 10-year-old logo. It’s a slight visual update to the icons used to represent friends and groups on the platform, and probably won’t even be noticed by the vast majority of users. But symbolically,...
