Tag: at&t

AT&T, TECHNOLOchicas and HACEMOS Promote Women in STEM

Stuart Mitchell

ATT has joined forces with the Latina STEM advocacy group TECHNOLOchicas and HACEMOS, ATT’s Hispanic employee resource group to host two special events this year. TECHNOLOchicas is part of NCWIT – National Center for Women & Information Technology. ATT spoke about their plans: “On Friday, October 20th we welcomed 45 Latina high school students at Foshay Learning Center in Los Angeles, California for a day of learning, mentorship and fun. The program kicked off with remarks from Latina leaders working in STEM at AT&T. TECHNOLOchicas mentors worked with the students…

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Google advertising row spreads to major US brands

Stuart Mitchell
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Following many British company pausing their ads on Youtube and Google several large US companies have followed suit.  AT&T, Verizon, Johnson and Johnson, Enterprise Holdings and pharmaceutical giant GSK as well as other major U.S. advertisers are pulling hundreds of millions of dollars in business from Google and YouTube. This comes despite Google pledging to ‘raise the bar’ wth regards to its advertising. AT&T’s statement on this reads: “We are deeply concerned that our ads may have appeared alongside YouTube content promoting terrorism and hate. Until Google can ensure this…

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