ATT held a hackathon  in Vegas during CES this week. The event connected developers with the business teams at ATT to help then great the next generation of great mobile apps. Check out the highlights in the video below:

In the second Installment of my Interview with Soledad Obrien for Black In America we talk about why I feel no one is will to address the disparity in the number of minorities in the technology space.

As a part of the CNN Black in America documentary I sat down with Soledad Obrien for  a 1 on ! interview. This segment talks about why i feel there is a need for  minority incubators.

My response to the following article on Entrepreneur.com “Creating an Ecosystem for Minority Entrepreneurs”

If you see the news today you should know that that we are still in the midst of an unemployment crisis. Even though things have improved since the height of the recent recession, unemployment levels still are at an all time high. The areas that appear to be the hardest hit are places with high populations of minorities. North Carolina has seen unemployment rates as go as high as 15% and African leaders have declared [...]

There was an article this week that talked the wireless app market and how many people don’t know that many of the apps created are from small companies, not large corporations. The fact that the barriers to entry are now so long creates opportunities for people and areas of the country that otherwise would have never had the chance. Making this fact more widely known could change many people perceptions of who benefits the most [...]

According to TechCrunch’s Mike Harrington, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has called for immigration reform that favors creating greater opportunities for immigrants because of their job creating potential here in the United States. Harrington reports: The Mayor proposed green cards for graduates with advanced degrees in essential fields; a new visa for entrepreneurs with investors ready to invest capital in their job-creating idea; more temporary and permanent visas for highly skilled workers…The Mayor also announced [...]

I talk alot about Internet Start-ups. Not just because they are cool and exciting in mainstream way due to the movie “The Social Network” but more because of the power of the process. Being able to create something and sometimes quickly be able to have it have an effect on people , in some cases thousands of  them. It’s an experience unlike any other. You learn more about yourself and what your capable of than [...]

As unemployment rates continue to remain high among African Americans. As this article on NewsOne shows the results are staggering. The issue is that these are more than statistics, they represent people with lives and families and people like you and me. The other problem is that mainstream society will not come up with solutions to solve this problem in the short term so we need to start coming up with them ourselves.  I believe [...]