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 MoreTheUrbanDaily.com Honors Influential Black Men With New Web Feature, “The G-List”
Interactive One’s entertainment and culture website, TheUrbanDaily.com, introduces a web feature called the G-List that profiles influential black men who have contributed to shaping different industries. Sponsored exclusively by Gillette, the G-List features a range of philanthropists, artists, entrepreneurs, celebrities and business executives making their mark in their respective fields. The list consist of 40 [...]
Read MoreCouncil of Urban Professionals, Interactive One and BET Host Second Annual Digital Summit
The Council of Urban Professionals, Interactive One, and BET Networks partner up to host the second annual Digital Summit on Sept. 28 at the SVA Theatre in New York. The 2010 Digital Summit was one of the first comprehensive conference to bring together digital leaders, venture capitalists and marketers in a dialogue regarding the evolving [...]
Read MorePresident Barack Obama Joins Interactive One’s Open for Question Forum [Video]
In partnership with the White House, Interactive One was the special host of an “Open For Questions” forum that featured senior members of the Obama Administration and editors from NewsOne.com and its sister sites in the Interactive One network, HelloBeautiful.com, TheUrbanDaily.com and BlackPlanet.com. President Barack Obama made a surprise appearance during the panel hosted by the black media [...]
Read MoreBlack Entrepreneur Pencils Herself Into Silicon Valley
Tiffani Ashley Bell is the founder and CEO of Pencil You In and a member of the NewMe Accelerator. She will be blogging about her experiences in Silicon Valley. I’m Tiffani Ashley Bell and I founded Pencil You In as a way to allow hairstylists and makeup artists to accept appointments online and by extension, grow their clientele. I’ve been programming since [...]
Read MoreBlack Entrepreneur Talks About His Journey To Silicon Valley
Chris Bennett is the CEO and co-founder of Central.ly, a co-founder of Black Founders, and a member of the NewMe Accelerator. He will be blogging about his experiences in Silicon Valley for the next month to share what he is learning out in the Wild Wild West. From a very young age I witnessed my parents strive to [...]
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