Interactive One and Songza Launch Online Social Radio for African-Americans, BlackPlanet Radio
Interactive One announced a partnership with a streaming music service, Songza to launch BlackPlanet Radio. BlackPlanet Radio is targeted towards African-Americans and allows users to discover new music in a variety of ways, as well as create playlists from a library of more than 14.5 million songs to share with their social network communities. The [...]
Read MoreTwitter Got Wack to Chris Brown Real Fast, Temporarily Deletes Account
Twitter tends to be people’s way of letting out any and every emotion they have no matter if it’s good, bad, or in between. Chris Brown is no stranger to Twitter rants, during his latest one on Nov. 17 he just got fed up with Twitter all together. The R&B singer lashed out to his [...]
Read MoreNewME Community Launches in Your Area
It’s been an amazing several months working on the NewME Accelerator but while we are focused on diversifying the tech industry by targeting the epicenter, Silicon Valley, the team here continued to think about, well… everyone else. Getting into the NewME Accelerator is great but it’s no easy task. We only accept 16 Founders per year! That [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 11-18-2011
Google Music Opens Doors with Android Music Store Google Music opened to the public this week, making it easy for you to dump your music into the cloud and accessing it from any of your Internet-connected devices. As expected, Google has fully integrated the ability to purchase music. This puts them even more directly in [...]
Read MoreSocial Outlet Brings Awareness to Missing Persons of Color
Black and Missing Foundation, Inc. and BlackandMarriedWithKids.com announced that its first hour-long Twitter chat to bring awareness to missing persons of color proved to be an enormous success with more than 700 tweets and 1.6 million impressions reaching an audience of more than 213,000 followers. The partnership between both organizations has created a social media [...]
Read MoreHow to Build Sustainable Journalism Startups
In the current media landscape where online startups are looking to fill the void left by wilting traditional media, starting a business is only the beginning. Though first steps are important, many startups are starting to face problems in sustaining their enterprises. This is what a new study by the Renaissance Journalism Center seeks to understand. The [...]
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