DreamIt Ventures Graduates Five Minority Led Companies
Today startup incubator DreamIt Ventures, is graduating 14 new startups from its fifth graduating class in Philadelphia and five of them are from minority owned. This year’s class features minority led startups through the Comcast Ventures collaboration and its Minority Entrepreneur Accelerator Program. The five startups include: ElectNext : an online platform that allows voters to easily figure [...]
Read MoreDreamIt Ventures and Comcast Team Up for Minority Tech Accelerator
DreamIt Ventures and Comcast have partnered up to create opportunities for minority tech startups with the Minority Entrepreneur Accelerator Program. The Minority Entrepreneur Accelerator Program features 5 minority startups including ElectNext, a company that works like a dating site, for your elections. Clients can compare candidates and find the perfect fit. Kwelia, a company that [...]
Read MoreComcast Takes Steps to Closing the Digital Divide With Internet Essentials Program
Cable and Internet provider Comcast is launching a new program that may help close the digital divide gap even more. They plan to offer discounted internet service and computers to low-income families with a program called Internet Essentials. The program is set to provide low-cost access to the internet and affordable computers as well as [...]
Read MoreDreamIt And Comcast Partner For New Program For Minority Entrepreneurs
Comcast Interactive Capital, the venture capital arm of the media giant, has partnered with Philadelphia based venture fund and startup accelerator Dreamit Ventures to provide seed funding, training, mentoring and other benefits to minority-led startups through DreamIt’s accelerator program. The new $350,000 fund will give five minority-led startups for its Fall Philadelphia 2011 program a [...]
Read MoreHulu Struggles to Keep Up With Changing World of Internet TV
According to the Wall Street Journal, Fox Broadcasting owner News Corp. and ABC owner Disney are contemplating pulling some free content from Hulu. The problem is that the networks providing content for Hulu are not satisfied with the current business model. They are not sure how much of their content they should offer for free [...]
Read MoreWhat the Comcast-NBC Merger Means for the Digital Divide
Yesterday’s announcement that the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice approved the merger to Comcast and NBC-Universal created a large amount of media scrutiny. Most reports focused on size of the deal, and the merger is indeed a staggering one. The deal joins Comcast’s cable network and TV channels with NBC-Universal’s theme parks, [...]
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