Voxy is a mobile app to help people learn English, available for Spanish speakers on the web and mobile versions, and in a mobile version for Brazilian Portuguese speakers. Voxy raised some capital last year and this year, we spoke to CEO and founder of Voxy, Paul Gollash. MW: What is the latest at Voxy? What are your latest features? PG: We are constantly improving the mechanics that help learners acquire English quickly and effectively. We break large linguistic problems into small bite-sized pieces where each piece is fun and addictive, motivating users to learn more.… more

A recent BBC investigation has begun to question the value and weight of the Facebook Like — a common currency on the Internet that has helped advertisers, charities, and more — though probably not any lives. With the meaning of the Like in question, one must ask: What does this mean for consumers? Producers? What about Facebook? According to the BBC investigation, Facebook declared that 5-6% of its userbase might be fake, a total of 54 million profiles out of Facebook’s 901 million users.… more

Latinas appear to be underrepresented as entrepreneurs, according to a post on Women2, even though they are creating businesses at a rate six times the national average. One reason may be the types of  businesses these women are creating.

…it would seem that we are somewhat “invisible” entrepreneurs… and terribly underrepresented in the media and in scholarly research. What’s very interesting is that, Federal Reserve data shows that there is a huge surge (almost 60%) in the Hispanic entrepreneurial sector, and even though entrepreneurial ventures by Hispanic women are lagging slightly behind Hispanic men, they are ahead of non-Hispanic women.

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Does San Antonio have the resources to create a powerful Latino middle class similar to the black middle class that exists in Atlanta, Georgia? It’s a good question, one that San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro has asked himself, and hopes to have the answer to. “I do think that San Antonio can become, just because of its history, its demographics, a lot like Atlanta, in terms of the large segment of African American professionals and a very successful middle class,” he told us in an interview earlier this year.… more

Actress Geena Davis, who founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, as named as a special envoy to the United Nations to promote the role of women and girls in technology. According to a release from the UN:

Among her duties will be to promote the ‘Tech Needs Girls’ campaign of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – a three-year campaign that seeks to raise global awareness of the role information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play in empowering women… The ‘Tech Needs Girls’ campaign aims to highlight the potential of technology to transform women’s lives, whether it be through ICT-based career choices or by improved access to services like e-health, e-education, e-commerce, e-banking and a host of new applications and devices that can help girls and women address their day-to-day challenges, ITU stated in a news release.

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In 2008 Microsoft started the Law Firm Diversity Program, which provides tech law firms financial incentives for recruiting a diverse workforce of attorneys. Since, according to this post by Broadband And Social Justice, 15 law firms have taken advantage of the program. The post continues:

 Boosting employment diversity seems like a difficult feat for our nation’s rapidly growing technology industry and noble law profession. With minorities representing 35 percent of the country’s population, at 12.7 percent, the representation of minority attorneys andAfrican American and Latino tech industry workers is more than 23 percentage points below that of the total population.

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