Why Do Blacks Make Technology Popular?
In the 1980s, crack cocaine flowed through America’s inner cities in a rampant rush of enterprise and despair. As this lucrative drug trade exploded, addicts and authorities alike sought out dealers ready to capitalize. Suddenly the pager — a device developed nearly 40 years ago to quiet the constant noise of hospital’s telecom systems — [...]
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 [...]
Read MoreNavarrow Wright Named Interactive One CTO
Interactive One, the digital arm of media company Radio One, has made a big addition to its management team. Navarrow Wright, co-founder of Global Grind and Black Web 2.0 contributor has joined the company as their new Chief Technology Officer. In his new role, Wright will be responsible “for leading the technology, site architecture and [...]
Read MoreInteractiveOne’s Web Strategy
There has been lots of buzz around InteractiveOne, a RadioOne company that plans to focus on interactive web media. Many of us have been wondering what exactly is InteractiveOne and what plans does RadioOne have for it? I recently noticed there are actually a few sites out there from InteractiveOne that are either in Beta [...]
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