The Last Mile Creating a Technology Eco-System Within the San Quentin State Prison
Three years ago Chris Redlitz didn’t know much about the incarceration system, what he did know was technology. After a tutoring project at the historic San Quentin State Prison in San Francisco he realized the true potential in the inmates and would come to form The Last Mile. The Last Mile is a program co-founded [...]
Read MorePictureMenu Changing the Way People Dine Out
Let’s face it – Americans love to eat out! The average consumer spends approximately $2,500 a year dining out at restaurants according to the United States Department of Labor. NewME Accelerator Spring 2012 graduate, founder Chris Lyons wants to make that dining out experience a great one withPictureMenu. PictureMenu is an iPhone and iPad app that [...]
Read MoreNewME Sp.12 Graduate James Norman Launches Start-up Ubi Video
NewME Accelerator Spring 2012 graduate James Norman recently launched his online video start-up Ubi Video! Ubi-Video is an online data-driven video platform that provides users with all of their favorite video content in one place. “I started Ubi Video because myself and a couple other friends were tired of the high price combined poor customer services [...]
Read MoreVisualize Your Natural Hair With The Big Chop iOS App
In 2011, Washington D.C. native Arsha Jones co-founded Capital City Apps; hence the name “Capital City”, with her husband as a platform to venture into technology related business ventures. Jones has always had an interest in Apple products including its apps, but noticed there were not many that targeted the African-American community. “One day I [...]
Read MoreAfrican-American Tech Start-up Creates Financial Literacy iOS Gaming App Mindblown Life
Jason Young, an African-American founder and CEO of Mindblown Labs, an Oakland, CA based education technology start-up, knows first-hand how financial literacy or lack thereof can impact the African-American community. Through his own personal experiences he learned very quickly that financial literacy is essential for everyone so he created a mobile app called Mindblown Life. [...]
Read MoreAfrican-American Women in Tech Honored at Interactive Digital Vanguard Awards & Creative Technology Festival
The Inaugural Women Interactive Digital Vanguard Awards and Creative Technology Festival in conjunction with Spelman College Digital Image Salon successfully took place in Atlanta Oct 12 and 13th. The festival opened to a crowd of hundreds of women seeking to gain knowledge and insight in the world of creative technology. It provided an interactive, in [...]
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