Author Archives: Yasmin Ranade

Canadians Making Social Media Safer for Kids

By Yasmin Ranade
VISR is a mobile and desktop app that aims to create a safer online world for families. Parents are notified in a time-sensitive manner when relevant safety issues come up across six supported social networks, including YouTube, Instagram, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and KidsEmail.

Dating Game App That Underscores Healthy Relationships

By Yasmin Ranade
Unique in the gaming and app markets, LongStory is LGBTQ friendly and designed to be inclusive from the ground up, helping players explore important issues, such as sexual orientation, gender identity, social anxiety, bullying and consent.

Dell World 2015: Women and Diversity in IT

By Yasmin Ranade
Dell thought leaders and industry professionals recently gathered in Austin, Texas at the annual Dell World event to discuss technology opportunities and challenges, and how they propose to make a lasting difference in business and IT.

The
Poverty Hackathon: Toronto and Nairobi, November 20-22

By Yasmin Ranade
The
Poverty Hackathon is a Devs Without Borders 28-hour event that brings charitable minded developers from Toronto and Nairobi together – simultaneously – to build web and mobile applications in education, business and farming for people living in rural and impoverished areas in East Africa. The winning solution gets real exposure, and will be implemented by Free The Children in rural Kenya.

‘Top Woman in Cloud’ to be named this month by CloudNOW

By Yasmin Ranade
In a friendly, pitch-style competition event that will take place on September 24th at Menlo Park, CA (Cuckoo’s Nest Club), CloudNOW will name the winner of the Top Ten Women in Cloud Award. The CloudNOW awards recognize 10 outstanding women in cloud and converging technology.