Good morning, happy columbus day, and welcome to squawk alley. Im sara eisen here with dave faber. John fortt with us from San Francisco, as he mentioned, at the black enterprise tech conference carl has the day off also joining us, kara swisher. A lot to get to today, beginning with google revealing youtube, g mail, and other platforms were compromised by russian operatives in an effort to interfere with the 2016 president ial election. Doesnt seem the ads were bought by the same troll farm that bought ads on Facebook Facebook is confirming russianbought ads appeared on instagram. So far, certainly, the pressure on these companies to fight fake news and bad advertising is mounting, kara, what will be the impact and whats the reaction out there in Silicon Valley . Well, i think, you know, its interesting. As i said, they are doing the slow roll, they are finding them slowly, looking for them i appreciate how difficult it is to find these things among the billions of transactions that h
Pioneers for their exceptional contribution towards diversifying the Tech Industry. I think the value represents the future, not only for america, or for black people, for the world. Its very, very rewarding in that i really do feel like i can help to mentor people who are coming along. People of color, especially. And women. I started my role at hp among a group of doing software, hardware, peripherals. And finally, we shine a spotlight on the next generation of tech stars, in our slice of life. We serve 16 to 24yearolds in lowincome communities, were headquartered in the bronx, we mostly serve bronx youth and mostly some are coming from colleges, or theyre in school, juniors and seniors, thinking about their next step after our world, up . . . . . . Only those who dare drive the world forward. . . . . Welcome back to our world black enterprise. Sacramento, california ranks among the top tech cities in the united states. And its first africanamerican mayor and former nba threetime all
BLACK ENTERPRISE To Showcase HBCU tech talent and prowess at the 8th Annual BE Smart Hackathon streetinsider.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from streetinsider.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.