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The annual ESSENCE Festival took place in New Orleans, LA over the holiday weekend. Like previous year’s the festival included live musical performances, discussions, addresses, and so much more. Among those in attendance this weekend was the NBA’s 2016 Rookie of the Year Karl-Anthony Towns. Towns, in partnership with Verizon took part in #VerizonInspires; which featured […]

Kelly believes we're finally starting to see our celebrity men step up for the future of brown boys and girls.

The producer believes that a core competency in technology is essential to success in today's world. We chatted briefly with Packer at the 2016 ESSENCE Festival this weekend to talk about his involvement and why he's excited to be a part of it.

In his latest partnership, Rashad has teamed up with Verizon to give everyone a chance to go to Super Bowl 50 and win tons of other prizes through the new #Minute50 campaign.

In 2013 six students of color from the Bronx Academy of Promise submitted the math app Quest Math for the Verizon Innovative App Challenge. Along with nine…

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Lookout Labs (a mobile security firm) analyzed data from 15 million cell phone users in 2011. Here are the top 6 places where cellphones were reported lost or stolen: 1. Coffee shop 2. Bar 3. Office 4. Restaurants 5. Apartment and Condo 6. Grocery store Read More for the full Top 10 Places Americans Lose […]

Well, that’s that. After more than three years of rumors, speculation, and plain old wishful thinking, Verizon Wireless finally announced Tuesday that it will soon be offering its own version of the iPhone, bringing AT&T’s long monopoly on the wildly popular handset to an end. The long-expected news came at a packed press conference at […]

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VIA Huffington Post: By Josh Silver, Free Press For years, Internet advocates have warned of the doomsday scenario that will play out on Monday: Google and Verizon will announce a deal that the New York Times reports “could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content’s creators are […]