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Built By Girls
Built by Girls (previously known as Cambio), is a New York-based organization that helps girls ages 15–22 get involved in technology by offering mentorship, and guidance. The company is owned and operated by Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present), Yahoo! Inc. In 2016, BUILTBYGIRLS launched a campaign that encouraged girls to submit their ideas and solutions to solve some of the problems facing the 62 million girls in the world without access to traditional education. The campaign garnered recognition from First Lady Michelle Obama, who joined forces with the organization to encourage the "Let Girls Build Challenge" project. In May 2021, it was announced that Verizon had sold Verizon Media to Apollo Global Management for $5 billion. The transaction was closed in September 2021. About Cambio launched in 2010 as a partnership between AOL, the Jonas Group, and MGX lab as a next-generation MTV-like video network. In 2012, AOL acquired Cambio, and in 2014 relaunched it in tandem with a par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yahoo! Inc
Yahoo! is a web services provider jointly by Apollo Global Management and Verizon Communications, and known for its web portal, search engine, and related services. Yahoo may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * Yahoo (''Gulliver's Travels''), creatures found in the book ''Gulliver's Travels'' by Jonathan Swift * Yahoo, the name of the fictitious country which is the setting for Bertolt Brecht's 1936 play ''Round Heads and Pointed Heads'' * Yahoo (band), a Brazilian rock band * Yahoo! (song), a song from the 1988 album '' The Innocents'' by Erasure * ''Yahoo'' (album), an Afghan album by Farhad Darya * Yahoo Serious (born Greg Pead 1953), Australian filmmaker Animals * Yahoo (bird), a popular name for the grey-crowned babbler * Yahoo (horse), a successful National Hunt racehorse Other uses * Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present), American technology company, parent company of the Yahoo! portal and the current incarnation of Yahoo! Inc. * Yahoo! Inc. (1995–2017), the owner of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Obama
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American attorney and author who served as first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She was the first African-American woman to serve in this position. She is married to former President Barack Obama. Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Obama is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. In her early legal career, she worked at the law firm Sidley Austin where she met Barack Obama. She subsequently worked in nonprofits and as the associate dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago as well as the vice president for Community and External Affairs of the University of Chicago Medical Center. Michelle married Barack in 1992, and together they have two daughters. Obama campaigned for her husband's presidential bid throughout 2007 and 2008, delivering a keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. She has subsequently delivered acclaimed speeches at the 2012, 2016 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apollo Global Management
Apollo Global Management, Inc. is an American global private-equity firm. It provides investment management and invests in credit, private equity, and real assets. As of March 31, 2022, the company had $512 billion of assets under management, including $372 billion invested in credit, including mezzanine capital, hedge funds, non-performing loans, and collateralized loan obligations, $80.7 billion invested in private equity, and $46.2 billion invested in real assets, which includes real estate and infrastructure. The company invests money on behalf of pension funds, financial endowments, and sovereign wealth funds, as well as other institutional and individual investors. Since inception in 1990, private-equity funds managed by Apollo have produced a 24% internal rate of return (IRR) to investors, net of fees. Apollo was founded in 1990 by Leon Black, Josh Harris, and Marc Rowan. Apollo is headquartered in the Solow Building at 9 West 57th Street in New York City, with off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambio
Cambio is the Spanish word for "change", and may refer to: ;Publications * ''Cambio'' (magazine), a Colombian political magazine *Cambio (newspaper), a Bolivian newspaper ;Entertainment and games * ''Cambio'' (band), a Filipino band *Perissone Cambio, 16th century musician *Built By Girls, formerly known as Cambio.com, an online news/entertainment website (AOL brand) *Cambio (card game), early name for the popular Swedish game of Kille ;Other *Cambio 90, a Peruvian political party *Currency exchange, term associated with exchanging one currency for another *Cambio Healthcare Systems Cambio Healthcare Systems is a healthcare company based in Linköping. It has offices in Reading, Berkshire, Aarhus, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Motala. It provides computerised clinical decision support services. It acquired Cayder, a British h ..., a Swedish healthcare company See also * Cambia (other) {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girls Who Code
Girls Who Code (also known as GWC) is an international nonprofit organization that aims to support and increase the number of women in computer science. The organization works toward closing the gender employment difference in computing. They host a seven-week Summer Immersion Program, a two-week specialized Campus Program, after school Clubs, a college club, College Loops, and a ''New York Times'' best-selling Penguin 13-book series. The organization is based in New York and has programs in the United States (all fifty states), Canada, India and the United Kingdom. Girls Who Code has also released many public campaigns to raise awareness of its mission. Summary Girls Who Code was founded by Reshma Saujani in 2012, who came up with the idea of creating the organization during her run for the United States Congress. Reshma believed that schools along her campaign route lacked female representation in computer science classrooms. The organization began under the White House Scienc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venture Capital
Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc). Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for equity, or an ownership stake. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing risky start-ups in the hopes that some of the firms they support will become successful. Because startups face high uncertainty, VC investments have high rates of failure. The start-ups are usually based on an innovative technology or business model and they are usually from high technology industries, such as information technology (IT), clean technology or biotechnology. The typical venture capital investment occurs after an initial "seed funding" round. The first ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Women's Websites
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
