(Black Voices) — When U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) seized hip-hop blogs OnSMASH.com and dajaz1.com last Thursday, we were left asking, “When did rap become a threat to national security?” For ICE it was a matter of copyright infringement, and the same way they’d crack down on a site for selling counterfeit goods, they […]
(Black Web 2.0) — How did you guys get your start in tech? Greg : I got my initial love back in the 80’s when I was 12, my dad bought me a Commodore 16 computer. When my computer went on the fritz, I dropped off the computer scene for a while, but I knew […]
(Black Web 2.0) — Unlike others who have Blair’s level of technical skill, he was not fascinated by technology as a child. In fact, the opposite was true. “I didn’t have the typical “first experience” with technology,” Blair explains. “As a child, we had a computer in the home, but I didn’t want to have […]
Birame Sock has snagged the likes of Whole Foods with an alternative to paper receipts.
(Black Web 2.0) — A few weeks back, ChubbyBrain and their parent company CB Insights invited Black Web 2.0 readers to try out the beta version Funding Recommendation Engine (FRE), it’s latest product. FRE allowed users to search for potential investors using an algorithm based on the amount of funding required by the entrepreneur, location and experience […]