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Africa’s Most Promising Entrepreneurs: Forbes Africa’s 30 Under 30 For 2016

You may not know many of their names now, but in 20 years’ time, they could be on the cover of FORBES AFRICA. Peruse them, argue over them and follow their journeys. We find this list exciting, thought provoking and forward looking. We hope you will too.

RaceIQ Zips to the Finish Line as the Grand Prize Winner of the TAG Biz Launch Competition

It wasn’t just any regular Tuesday night the day of May 3rd, 2016, it was the Tuesday night that catapulted everything for RaceIQ as TAG proudly announces us as the grand prize winner of the 11th annual BizLaunch Competition! 14 other startups gave phenomenal...

MLB All-Star Ivan Rodriguez is joining a VC fund

Baseball legend Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez, who is now up for nomination for the 2017 Baseball Hall of Fame, is joining a venture capital fund. Pudge is joining z9 Capital, a $25M fund based out of South Florida that focuses on making seed investments between $250k –...

Would more black investors mean more money for black entrepreneurs?

Jeffery Beckham Jr. has had a good streak of investments in businesses and community projects. His Black Box Creative digital design service touts celebrity clients and he's working to set up a new Bronzeville business development center. Now he's looking to invest in other startups.

Ursula Burns to head new company after Xerox split

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Ursula Burns, the first African-American woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company, will step down from her job later this year to become chairman of the Document Technology Co., which will be created when Xerox Corp. completes its split into two separate, publicly traded companies, Xerox announced Friday.

Jack Dorsey: Twitter is best when it carries every voice

Does a platform have to be neutral? That was the question posed to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday by Recode's Peter Kafka at the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. The question is an important one, especially now, just a few weeks removed from a report early last month that Facebook, another important platform for publishers, was systematically suppressing conservative news and headlines from appearing in its trending topics section.