Who doesn’t love Starbucks? What a company! Millions and millions of people line up everday all day to pay $4 for a cup of coffee. America is addicted to coffee and that’s why Starbucks is the App of the Week. The Starbucks app has been around for a long time. But in all honesty...

Chrysler has recalled 1.4 million cars because of  a terrifying hacker demonstration. Hackers have released a video of a Chrysler Jeep being controlled by hackers leaving the driver helpless. Chrysler cars subject to the recall are 2015 Dodge Ram pickup, Challenger and Viper cars, Jeep Cherokee and Grand Cherokee SUVs. African-Americans love theirs. Let’s just...

August 4, 2015 United Airlines According to Bloomberg Business United Airlines has reported that it’s customer flight records have been lost to a data breach. The breach was detected in May or June of this year and involved flight manifests. Chinese hackers are suspected. These same Chinese hackers are suspected of stealing more than twenty...

African-American College Students Prepare for Back to School By AACR Intern Bria Richardson Summer is over and you’ve done nothing but work and hang out with your friends for the past couple of months. You kept telling yourself that you’ll get your school things situated tomorrow, then that turned into this weekend, and that turned...

You won’t even know if you have Stagefright! Getting Stagefright is as simple as having the hacker send you a text message. And that’s it! You don’t even have to open the message. Once it arrives in your phone the damage is done. Android phones 2.2 or later versions are vulnerable to this attack. Currently it...

When you’re hungry nothing is more frustrating than getting to a restaurant and finding there’s a wait to be seated. Do you move on to another restaurant and possibly find another wait list? That’s why NoWait is the App of the Week. Using your location NoWait maps out nearby establishments and lets you know how...

In the digital age the Internet is competing for the attention of black people and advertising dollars. Black media has evolved with the Internet producing numerous relevant sources of information. But are African-American newspapers keeping up with the times? Are they still relevant to the community? Are they being challenged by the Internet to remain a...

Rap mogul Jay-Z is learning the music streaming business is a tough game. In March of this year Jay-Z purchased Tidal the subscription music streaming service for $56 million. This was clearly a bold move considering the competition from Spotify, Google, and Apple. Jay-Z’s plan was to address complaints from artists that they are not getting paid, or...

President Obama announced a broad initiative intended to provide high-speed Internet service to low-income households. The announcement came last Wednesday. The pilot program, named ConnectHome, hopes to deliver high-speed broadband access to over 275,000 low-income households across the U.S. The pilot program will launch in 27 U.S. cities including New York, Boston and Seattle and the...

African-Americans have a weight problem. As a matter of fact we are suffering an obesity epidemic. With this in mind there is no wonder that products such as Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig have become popular and an economic gold mine. Thats why iTrackBites is the app of the week. iTrackBites is an app that...