One his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made a surprise visit to Nigeria, Africa’s most populace nation (170-milllion people) and Facebook's largest market with 16-million users. “This is my first trip to sub-Saharan Africa,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. “I’ll...
African Americans make up a significant demographic of video gamers, the second largest ethnic group to play, after Asian Americans. Yet, there is a paucity of black people in the gaming industry. Only 2.5% of game developers are of color. This means that not only are African...
An Amazon engineer hailing from Detroit has a novel idea for that city’s unused school buses: turn them into mobile tech labs. Thomas Phillips presented his idea at last month’s Hack the Central District Cultural Innovation Conference (Hack the CD) in Seattle, according to The Detroit...
The Obama administration is making it easier for entrepreneurs worldwide to launch startups in the U.S. Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is publishing the White House’s International Entrepreneur Rule. The program grants temporary visas to startup founders from other countries if their companies meet...
After Britney Robbins got the first batch of applications for her black entrepreneurship program, The Gray Matter Experience, she set out on trips across Chicago to meet with 20 of the most promising high school students and hear their stories. “A lot of them were candid...