Rushmore Drive + Global Grind: A Good Match?
Fresh off the heels of their announcement of Russell Simmons as EIC and the addition of several celebrities to their blogging roster, Global Grind has now partnered with IAC’s Rushmore Drive, famous for their Black search engine and unique sorting algorithm for finding Black content on the web. According to a recent press release, the [...]
Read MoreClutch Deal Expands Partnership, Explores Larger Online Marketspace
On the eve of this year’s digital reincarnation of popular African-American woman’s magazines Honey and Sister 2 Sister, Elemental Interactive invested an undisclosed amount in Clutch Magazine in exchange for minority ownership. Details on the amount of money and equity exchanged have not been released. The deal looks more like a next step in the [...]
Read MoreHoney’s Sweet New Redesign
Nokware talked last month about Honey Magazine’s latest incarnation as a web-only publication with a substantial $10 million investment behind it. The site recently went live and is currently in beta. The new Honey Magazine site design shuns the familiar brown and orange of previous site designs and went for an edgier, darker look with [...]
Read MoreGrey Goose Celebrates Black History Month On YouTube
Top shelf vodka maker Grey Goose is celebrating Black History Month 2009 on YouTube with a series of films about the Black experience in the United States and around the world. From Jan. 30 through Feb. 12, Grey Goose will sponsor four unique films in the You Tube Screening Room, each with its own perspective [...]
Read MorePowell To The People
Black stars and the Web seem to have a love/hate relationship, don’t they? Either celebrities are complaining about their coverage (or lack thereof), or they try clumsily to embrace the technology and end up abandoning their efforts after a few attempts (i.e. graveyards of Twitter accounts and MySpace pages). More Black celebrities though are working [...]
Read MoreErykah Badu & Jay Electronica Tweet birth of baby girl
If you were anywhere on Twitter today you may have caught wind of the flurry of congratulatory Tweets to @JayElectronica. He and Erykah Badu gave birth to a healthy baby girl and Tweeted the events starting when he songstress first went into labor earlier today. Soulbounce was first to break the story and is continuing [...]
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