By Shwetabh Mittal, Senior Director, Product Management The great lockdown caused by COVID-19 has accelerated the need for digital skills. Companies are reallocating their digital talent to stay competitive and dedicating more time and resources to helping their employees learn about digital technologies. The pandemic has had an even bigger impact on higher education: around 1.6 […]
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Announcing Coursera for Campus free pricing options and academic integrity upgrades
By Jeff Maggioncalda, Coursera CEO The pandemic has been a catalyst for universities to make online learning core to the student experience. In March, we launched the Campus Response Initiative to give students and faculty free access to Coursera for Campus during pandemic-related closures. Since then, we have grown from 30 universities using Coursera for […]
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Coursera Launches Two New Entry-Level Professional Certificates in Partnership With Salesforce, SV Academy, and IBM
By Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer, Coursera Over half of the active workforce in the US does not have a college degree. This group has been disproportionately affected by the pandemic, experiencing more than double the job loss rates compared to college-educated workers. Coursera has teamed up with Salesforce, SV Academy, and IBM to launch […]
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Salesforce To Join Dow Jones, Replacing Exxon, As Tech Rises, Energy Falls
jmcbain writes: The benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average, a selection of 30 companies that aims to represent U.S. industries at large, is going to have its largest change in seven years. Notably, Salesforce will replace Exxon on the DJIA (and Amgen and Honeywell will replace Pfizer and Raytheon), marking the end of Exxon’s 92-year stay on the index. CNBC notes that…
Q2 Coursera for Business Quarterly Product Release
By Shwetabh Mittal, Senior Director, Product Management The world has changed a great deal since I last posted. I hope all readers of this blog are well and safe during these unprecedented times. We continue to enhance the Coursera platform in response to data and your feedback, as we strive to create and deliver the […]
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AWS Launches ‘Amazon Honeycode’, a No-Code App Building Service
“Amazon Web Services on Wednesday launched Amazon Honeycode, a fully-managed service that enables companies to build mobile and web applications without any programming,” reports ZDNet: Customers can use the service to build apps that leverage an AWS-built database, such as a simple task-tracking application or a more complex project management app to manage multiple workflows. “Customers have told us that the…
Developers Say Google’s Go is ‘Most Sought After’ Programming Language of 2020
Lots of developers really want to learn Go, a programming language for large systems created by Google, meanwhile most developers are sick of attending meetings, and most of those working at multinational corporations aren’t happy there. From a report: That’s according to the results of a survey of over 16,655 developers from 76 countries carried out by HackerEarth, a company with…
Will the Pandemic Inspire Silicon Valley to Do Good?
The global pandemic “has stirred up a missionary zeal throughout Silicon Valley,” writes Bloomberg:
Apple and Google put aside a decadelong rivalry to form an alliance to track the spread of infections. Facebook and Salesforce.com are procuring millions of masks for health care workers. Jeff Bezos is donating $100 million and Jack Dorsey $1 billion. In other corners of the Valley, people…
Tech’s Early Work-From-Home Mandates Helped California, Washington Flatten Curve
gollum123 shares a report from CNBC: On March 19, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a statewide shelter-in-place order to stem the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee followed four days later. While they were moving aggressively relative to the rest of the country, the top employers in their states were weeks ahead of them. Twitter was the…
Big Tech’s Summer Internships Go Digital
The major tech companies are scrambling to craft digital options for this year’s summer intern class, as businesses remain shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic. These companies said they’re moving their programs online: Google said it will pay its interns the full rate.
Twitter said its intern class may shrink this year.
Microsoft said it will have its biggest ever intern class –…