Hispanic Americans own 4.2 million businesses that contribute $668 billion in revenue to the U.S. economy, and Los Angeles is home to 65% of Hispanic-owned businesses in California. "Members of our community are driven and committed to starting and building their
Liberty Power, an independent retail electric supplier, donated renewable energy certificates to match 100 percent of the estimated electricity usage at the 2018 conference of Northwest Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council on June 12. The Northwest Mou
Mario Tapia is active in the Wireless community. He is founder of Mobile Monday Seattle and Los Angeles, a global wireless industry group. His experience in the mobile industry began in 2000, while pioneering Location Based Services at Telecommunication Systems
University of Texas El Paso's Luz Bugarin, a project manager in its NASA MIRO Center for Space Exploration and Technology Research, along with Mariana Chaidez, a mechanical engineering doctoral candidate, were part of a team awarded "2017 Best Paper" by the America
The University of Texas at Arlington serves more Hispanic students than any other four-year public university in North Texas. But only 25 percent of Latinos in Texas ages 25-34 have a post-secondary degree or certificate. To help build the workforce of the futur
JetBlue has announced $100,000 worth of grants from the JetBlue Foundation to STEM educational programs in Puerto Rico. Grants will help further the airline’s efforts to place aviation fields as top career choices for students. Over the past five years, the f
Howard University President Wayne Frederick and Universidad del Valle Cali President Edgar Varela Barrios have signed a memorandum of understanding for both students and faculty in Washington D.C and Cali, a Colombian city in the southwest of Bogotá. “Our visi
Ricardo Garcia-Amaya is the founder and CEO of VOIQ Inc., a tech company that services clients such as Airbnb and Stanford University and is funded by YCombinator. Twice a year, Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($120k) in a large number of startups.
The U.S. Army released a new vision Wednesday. Looking ahead to 2028, the service plans to grow the regular army above 500,000 soldiers. With more than half a million people, the Army is the largest branch of the U.S. military. The Army Vision for 2028 will mo
Vanessa Pestritto is currently a partner at Lattice Ventures, a New York-based Venture Capital firm. According to their website, Lattice invests in entrepreneurs who understand the problems they plan to solve. Vanessa's experiences include technology managem
IBM announced this week that its apprenticeship program has earned…
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