Google Bets Big On Hispanics And Women

By Giovanni Rodriguez, Forbes

So far, I have gotten three urgent notes from friends this week, and they all sound something like this:  “Are you going to the event at Google?”  Said friends are all Latino, and all are in the tech ecosystem.  It’s the first must-go Latino tech event of the season.  It’s gonna be good.

Three things make this a story worth covering.  First, as I have often written here, Latino tech increasingly is looking like a good bet … for investors, for accelerators, and yes, for technology partners.  But Google’s recent decision to support Manos is a huge boost for the category.  Was not so long ago that Latino startups struggled to get attention from the bigger players, so Google’s participation is in fact buzzworthy.

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