A McDonald’s restaurant in Middletown, Ohio has taken action against using and overdosing on drugs in its restrooms. Employees of the fast food place now carry remote control buttons to permit people to enter the facilities there, reports the Journal-News in Butler County, Ohio. And the entrance door closest to the restrooms is marked “exit only” now. […]

Despite a pledge to usher in a new era of diversity and inclusion, social media giant Twitter employs just 49 Black people out of a U.S. workforce of 2,910, The Guardian reports. That comes out to 1.7 percent of Twitter’s U.S. staff, the site notes. And the slim numbers seem even more bleak when contrasted […]

  The popular social media website, launched by Mark Zuckerberg on February 4, 2004, is currently visited by 6 out of 10 users.   (CNN) – Facebook, the social network co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg in a Harvard dorm room, turns 10 Tuesday. Facebook has 1.2 billion users. The site has given new meaning to words, […]

Twitter is looking for ways to make a big buck off of its racially-diverse user base. According to reports, the social network recently hired a marketing guru to study its demographics, including the online cultural and entertainment force we know as Black Twitter. Marketing veteran Nuria Santamaria, who joined the Twitter family as a multicultural […]

President Barack Obama touted his jobs bill and took questions on the economy in Silicon Valley Monday at a town hall run by LinkedIn, the professional networking website that some job-seekers flock to. It was the president’s latest outreach to voters via a major social networking company. In April, Obama held a town hall targeted […]

September 22 is the first day of the rest of your life, or at least that’s what Facebook would have you believe. Their VP of Global Communications Elliot Schrage recently told Tech Crunch that this year’s F8 conference will be “either the most important, or the second most important F8 yet.” Already, Facebook has been […]