Best Buy Giving Away $100,000 For The Next Big Tech Idea With College Innovator Fund
Big-box retailer doesn’t just want to be known as the place where you get the cheapest gear — lately it’s been highlighting technology innovation and innovators in its ads and messaging. To that end, the company is launching a contest aimed at finding the next big thing, and it’s asking college kids to compete for [...]
Read MoreNYC Just Got More Access, Converts 10 Payphones into Free WiFi Hotspots
When you pass by a payphone do you wonder – why is that still here? Well you might not have to ask that question any more, at least not in New York. New York City has officially launched a program to bring free public Wi-Fi to payphones across the city. As of today, there are 10 Wi-Fi [...]
Read MoreInteractive One Adds BlackNews.com and HBCUConnect.com To Its Roster
Interactive One announced an exclusive partnership with Lee Moss Media, owner of HBCUConnect.com and BlackNews.com this morning. Interactive One Studios, the company’s business unit that offers product, technology, content, advertising sales, and marketing services to digital publishers, will now manage all advertising sales activity for the sites. The partnerships officially went into effect on July [...]
Read MoreBeats Acquire Music Streaming Service MOG
It’s been confirmed that Dr. Dre’s Beats Electronics has acquired music streaming service MOG. GigaOm reports MOG was sold for approximately $14 million. There have been no reports on exactly how Beats will leverage MOG, but its expected to take Beats to another level. MOG founder and CEO David Hyman tells USA Today ”the addition of MOG’s music [...]
Read MoreGoogle Offers Support to Developers With ‘Developers Live’
As NewME office hours are under way in D.C. today, Google announces office hours too, but for developers. Yup, Google has launched “Google Developers Live” which opens conversation between Googlers and the developers who use their APIs. The office hours will take place in a live Google+ Hangout. Louis Gray, Program Manager on Google’s Developer Relations Team says [...]
Read MoreTwitter Names Mark Luckie Creative Content Manager for Journalism
Founder of technology and journalism blog 10,000 Words and now former Social Media Editor at The Washington Post will be heading to New York where he will fill the shoes of Creative Content Manager for Journalism at tech giant, Twitter. In Luckie’s new role he will bridge journalism and social media by exploring ways journalists [...]
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