10656: BHM 2023—Yahoo!

 

Yahoo! takes a Google approach to BHM, redesigning its logo, posting promotional banners, and inviting visitors to search for Bold content of color.

 

13509: Chicken & Rice.

A MultiCultClassics visitor pointed to a Yahoo! News story showing this blog isn’t the only one criticizing the Annie the Chicken Queen and Jerry Rice buffoonery for Popeyes.

12094: Where Is AOL’s Culture?

AOL boasts being where culture meets code! The enterprise states a commitment to diversity and inclusion—although AOL admitted dealing with challenges involving limited career opportunities for minorities in 2002. And AOL doesn’t appear on the DiversityInc Top 50 List. So is AOL really diverse—or is it another Google, Yahoo!, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn?

11924: We’re Mostly White—Yahoo!

DiversityInc reported Yahoo! released its workforce diversity statistics and wound up looking like Google.

Yahoo! Is Latest Tech Company to Release Workforce Diversity Stats

By Julissa Catalan

On Tuesday, Silicon Valley-based technology company Yahoo! released its workforce diversity stats. What it revealed is unsurprising to most, as the numbers mirror the lack of diversity that seems to be a trend in the tech industry.

The report showed that out of Yahoo!’s 12,000 worldwide employees, 50 percent are white and 39 percent are Asian. Latinos make up 4 percent of the workforce and Blacks account for 2 percent. Undisclosed and mixed race make up 2 percent each.

Asians make up the majority of “tech” workers at 57 percent, with whites at 35 percent in this area.

When it comes to “leadership” (vice president and above) positions, however, Asians only make up 17 percent, while nearly four out of five are white.

Yahoo!, which is run by a woman, former Google executive Marissa Mayer, overall has 37 percent women employees. These women hold 23 percent of the leadership positions.

The company declined to release a gender breakdown for its U.S. workforce.

See Yahoo!’s EEO-1 Report for 2013.

The Yahoo! report comes one month after Google’s own workforce diversity report was released. The two reports tell a very similar story.

Google has 46,170 employees worldwide. The gender data released reflected that total while the race/ethnicity data were only compiled from the U.S. workforce.

The company’s numbers showed that 70 percent of all Google employees are male, and 62 percent of its U.S. workers are white.

Like Yahoo!, the Asian community makes up the second-largest ethnic group for Google employees at 30 percent. Mixed race makes up 4 percent, while Latinos account for 3 percent and Blacks for 2 percent.

Google has 19 offices around the country, while Yahoo! has 25.

Google and Yahoo! have always declined to participate in the DiversityInc Top 50 survey.

To give some perspective, below is the workforce-representation data for the 2014 DiversityInc Top 50 companies:

11.9% Black, 9.8% Latino, 9.8% Asian, 46.2% women

For years now, tech companies have been fighting to keep their EEO data a secret. Now that the results are becoming public, we can see why.

10453: Color Commentary At RNC.

From Reuters…

Yahoo! fires Washington news chief over Republican joke

Aug 29 (Reuters) - Yahoo! News fired its chief political correspondent on Wednesday for an off the cuff remark about Republicans partying “with black people drowning”.

David Chalian, the Yahoo! News Washington Bureau Chief, made the comment privately during a webcast of the Republican National convention on Monday in partnership with ABC News, but it was picked up by a live microphone.

With Hurricane Isaac approaching New Orleans as the convention got underway, Chalian was heard saying to an unidentified guest, “Feel free to say, ‘They’re not concerned at all. They are happy to have a party with black people drowning’”.

The remark was made over video of Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney and his wife Ann, and laughter was heard in the background.

Yahoo! said in statement that Chalian’s remark “was inappropriate and does not represent the views of Yahoo!”.

“He has been terminated effective immediately. We have already reached out to the Romney campaign, and we apologize to Mitt Romney, his staff, their supporters and anyone who was offended.”

Chalian later apologized on his Facebook page for “making an inappropriate and thoughtless joke”.

“I was commenting on the challenge of staging a convention during a hurricane and about campaign optics,” he said.

Chalian said he had apologized to Romney and that he regretted “causing any distraction from the exceptional coverage of the Republican convention by Yahoo! News and ABC News”.

The Republican Party’s national convention in Tampa, Florida, was delayed by strong winds and heavy rains as Isaac grew from a tropical storm to a hurricane on its path up the Gulf Coast. (Reporting By Jill Serjeant in Los Angeles; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Andrew Hay)

7772: Yahoo! Looks Like A, Well, Yahoo.

This Yahoo! commercial attempts to make the brand cool again, but only manages to confirm its outdated irrelevance.

7564: Lite Rock.

Rock on, rock stars. Add myspace to your Yahoo! homepage and be totally lame and irrelevant.

7273: From The Yahoos At Yahoo!

Check out this video titled: Yahoo! Hearts Creatives.

Yahoo! claims to “heart” creatives, yet the video displays nearly every cliché about the business—starring characters that can only be categorized as stereotypically White.

And when you consider the latest campaign from the Internet services provider, it’s pretty obvious that Yahoo! Hates Creatives.

7121: Yahoo! Ineffectiveness!

Yahoo! is seeking a Global Director of Ad Effectiveness Research. Your first assignment will be to verify the ineffectiveness and abject awfulness of the new Yahoo! ad campaign.

6080: Falling Profits? Bank On It.

Late-breaking market reports in a MultiCultClassics Monologue…

• Not to be outdone by other failing banks, National City reported 3Q losses at $5.15 billion and announced plans to cut 4,000 jobs. Looks like National City should have charged fees after all. Lots and lots of fees.

• Apple reported a 26 percent profit jump, spiked by iPhone sales. Ironically, the PC character is doing quite well financially.

• Yahoo! saw 3Q profits drop 64 percent, prompting the decision to cut 1,500 jobs. First, Washington Mutual had to stifle its Whoo hoo! Now, there’s uncomfortable silence from Yahoo! Quick, somebody check on Yoo-hoo!

5019: Yahoos in the News.

Punching in and out with a MultiCultClassics Monologue…

• Chuck Norris, Texas Ranger and Mike Huckabee fan, sparked controversy by declaring Republican presidential candidate John McCain is too old to run the White House. Look at the photo above and try to explain why Norris should be taken seriously as a political analyst. Huckabee would be better off partnering with Steven Seagal.

• Various sources reported potential layoffs at Yahoo! One blog claimed the company is seeking to eliminate up to 2,500 jobs, while newspapers estimated figures in the hundreds. Wonder if employees are using Yahoo! hotjobs® or opting for the more popular Monster.com.