Facebook struggles to recruit, retain black technical employees

Facebook hasn’t been able to increase Black representation in technical roles by a single percentage point since starting to report diversity numbers in 2014. Black employees now comprise 1.7% of the social media company’s technical roles, up from 1.5% in 2019 and 1% in 2014, Facebook said in its latest diversity report. The demographic lags […]

At 3.2% growth, China’s economy just made a smart recovery in second quarter

Beijing: The Chinese economy returned to growth in the second quarter, marking an important milestone in the global struggle to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Gross domestic product expanded 3.2 per cent in the three months to June from a year ago, reversing a 6.8 per cent decline in the first quarter. In the first-half, however, output […]