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| Wednesday, October 18 04:21 PM |
| Honeymag Lags. Well Mister, Here Comes Isister. |
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They say a bee dies after it loses its sting: Vanguarde Neomedia has yet to launch their foray into the urban women's portal wars. Honeymag.com is currently just a shill for the print magazine. The brand name represents a large group under-represented, intelligent, smart and upwardly mobile set of black women who are looking for a home on the web. They haven't found it at honeymag.com.
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| Thursday, November 02 05:43 PM |
| Adam Kidron and Urban Bust Office: The Den Redux |
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Urban Box Office is dead. All the promise that was held in the dream of the urban entertainment on the net will survive, just not with UBO. At the end, an unwillingness of Adam Kidron to step down from the CEO position cost UBO a desperately needed round of funding. Currently all the stores are closed on the UBO network, not that they were selling anything anyway. How did this company get into such dire straights as to need $1+ million dollars a week and have no cash reserves to continue operations?
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| Monday, July 10 01:20 PM |
| Miller Publishing Tries Iron Pyrite Ploy To Attract Buyers For SPIN/VIBE Ventures. |
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Miller publishing has been trying to dump SPIN/VIBE ventures since last year. They were asking for over $200 million for the three magazines (SPIN/VIBE/BLAZE). There of course were no takers. The 3 ailing magazines with no soul, no direction, and a dwindling market share leaves potential buyers cool. The three magazines all suffered from the same management mistakes. One of the main reasons for the value loss lied in their lack of an Internet strategy. They lost their chance to capitalize from the online market space for their respective genres.
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| Thursday, October 05 02:48 PM |
| Places Of Color Is Even Duller. |
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Urbanexpose.com brings you an advanced look at Places of Color before it launches. You can now enjoy POC with a temporal displacement. Considering it may be a long time before this product reaches the completion, enjoy it vicariously through us.
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| Monday, August 20 09:29 AM |
| Hot Five Urban Properties For 2001 |
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It is a bit early to call it spring, but already the days are becoming longer. Even as we speak we are in the equinox. It signals the time for shorter skirts, open sunroofs, and an unfathomable restlessness that makes sitting at a desk for more than our pre-defined notions of an 8 hour work day difficult. A slew of new properties are headed our way this year for consumption, some are appallingly bad and some are pretty frigging decent. With that, the staff behind UE presents what could be the hottest urban properties this year:
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| Friday, September 29 02:18 PM |
| AKA Stays Because Of Adam Kidron and UBO Pay Day. |
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Playwright turned Websmith Randy Wiener partnered with Stuart Hirsch to start Internet Music Corporation. Their flagship product AKA.com had hip hop websites signing up for the chance to be tied to record-industry style life-time contracts, give their content away for free, and make their sites billboards for AKA's unfilled ad inventory.
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| Thursday, August 03 05:49 PM |
| Hova Slides Over to 360 in the Rover. |
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360hiphop and Roc-a-Fella have done a deal that has Roc-A-Fella leaving Peeps-Republic anemic low-tech website for 360hiphop's anemic high-tech website. 360hiphop will develop the Roc-A-Fella site featuring the same things you can find at every other site. Where is DME in this deal? One has to ask, what happened to the ties that bind? Brother, can you spare a dime?
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| Monday, August 20 09:08 AM |
| 360hiphop No Longer Turning Round as BET Execs Wind Operations Down |
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Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, Editor in Chief and Chief Creative Officer of 360hiphop.com announced his resignation. The broadband site, which was acquired by BET, under the leadership of Scott Mills, several months back for a stock swap, has let go a majority of its editorial staff. The site featured some of the best stories on hip-hop you’ll never read.
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