Allison Levitsky - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/author/allison-levitsky/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Fri, 23 Apr 2021 18:48:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://i0.wp.com/houstonnewmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-cropped-Houston.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Allison Levitsky - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/author/allison-levitsky/ 32 32 103504436 U.S. public companies named 82 Latinx people to their boards in Q1, a 331% year-over-year jump https://houstonnewmedia.org/u-s-public-companies-named-82-latinx-people-to-their-boards-in-q1-a-331-year-over-year-jump/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=u-s-public-companies-named-82-latinx-people-to-their-boards-in-q1-a-331-year-over-year-jump Fri, 23 Apr 2021 18:48:18 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=4d100c6e817661be5f21b398ed4bb533 Amid growing pressure to increase diversity in their boardrooms, U.S. companies named dozens of new Latinx directors in the first quarter. Some states are taking direct action to change board composition, with California outlawing all-white boards at p...

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]]> 123810 Software giant ServiceNow investing $100M in Black communities, including in Houston https://houstonnewmedia.org/software-giant-servicenow-investing-100m-in-black-communities-including-in-houston/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=software-giant-servicenow-investing-100m-in-black-communities-including-in-houston Wed, 27 Jan 2021 22:08:04 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=10ad2bfa4ac91bf1a67e980c3cfe5993 ServiceNow Inc. is putting $100 million behind efforts to support homeownership, entrepreneurship and neighborhood revitalization efforts in Black communities in 10 U.S. metropolitan areas, including Houston.

The investment fund is set to be managed b...

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]]> 105646 HPE shares more details about execs, employees moving to Houston area https://houstonnewmedia.org/hpe-shares-more-details-about-execs-employees-moving-to-houston-area/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hpe-shares-more-details-about-execs-employees-moving-to-houston-area Wed, 02 Dec 2020 13:48:55 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=55bb06a58c6a8a9e7465a325ff35c9d0 The move will be a homecoming for HPE CEO Antonio Neri, who spent years as a Hewlett-Packard Co. executive in Houston.

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]]> 93412 HP to get nearly half a billion dollars in factories, patents price-fixing case https://houstonnewmedia.org/hp-to-get-nearly-half-a-billion-dollars-in-factories-patents-price-fixing-case/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hp-to-get-nearly-half-a-billion-dollars-in-factories-patents-price-fixing-case Mon, 08 Jun 2020 18:21:59 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=5299f83dcab7d2126498786f7f3dc9ca A former HP Inc. supplier lost an appeal and will have to turn over nearly half a billion dollars to the Palo Alto-based tech company.

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]]> 50734 Xerox ends hostile takeover attempt of HP, citing coronavirus https://houstonnewmedia.org/xerox-ends-hostile-takeover-attempt-of-hp-citing-coronavirus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=xerox-ends-hostile-takeover-attempt-of-hp-citing-coronavirus Wed, 01 Apr 2020 13:31:15 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=f5c30be74f079698be04a0ce6819bf46 Xerox Holdings Corp. (NYSE: XRX) is dropping its $30 billion bid to acquire Palo Alto-based HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ), which has a significant presence in Houston, the Connecticut-based printer company announced March 31 after several months of pursuing a ho...

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]]> 31641 Former CEO of Houston’s BMC Software to become CEO of McAfee https://houstonnewmedia.org/former-ceo-of-houstons-bmc-software-to-become-ceo-of-mcafee/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=former-ceo-of-houstons-bmc-software-to-become-ceo-of-mcafee Sun, 19 Jan 2020 23:27:19 +0000 http://houstonnewmedia.org/?guid=3ee03b44934e426411d45e9c7d3ecf22 The CEO of McAfee LLC is stepping down and will be replaced by Peter Leav, a former CEO of Houston-based BMC Software.

Chris Young had served as CEO of Santa Clara, California-based McAfee, a security software company, since 2017. 

He is set to remai...

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