Financier Cleveland Gary has created an opportunity that is opening doors for many urban small business owners across America

) August 11, 2009 -- Urban Butik today announced that they will be distributing the Magisso cake server in the United States and Canada. This modern classic was introduced in Finland in spring 2009 and will be available in North America for the first time.

The Magisso cake server

) February 9, 2009 -- Urban fiction author K. Elliott knows that when the economy takes a hit, his fans feel it, making low-cost forms of entertainment like books and movies even more popular as escapes from reality. Today the tremendous growth in readily accessible e-books has fueled inexpensive, online publishing. Even Oprah Winfrey is promoting an e-reader to her audience. Publishing houses expect the market to double for e-books this year.

Mobile gaming statistics in urban India, frequency of accessing games on cell phone and most popular games played

) October 7, 2009 -- Urban Butik today announced that they have started shipping the Magisso cake server in the United States and Canada. This modern classic was introduced at the New York International Gift Fair in August and is now available in North America for the first time.

"We got rave reviews for the Magisso cake server at the New York International Gift Fair and we think it will be a great product for the holiday season," said Anne Foged, President of Urban Butik. "This is a unique piece of art that marries style and functionality. It will be a perfect gift."

) July 20, 2009 -- Urban fantasy has become the darling of the shelves. Authors such as Stephenie Meyer (Twilight series), Laurell K. Hamilton (Anita Blake series), Charlaine Harris (True Blood series), Jim Butcher (Dresden Files series) and many others regularly hold the top positions on the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. An enticing blend of horror, fantasy and romance, urban fantasy is marked by the imposition of the paranormal or supernatural world into the "real world", turning the mundane existence of one or more primary characters (as well as readers) into a wild joyride of fear, exhilaration, and adrenaline.

) March 17, 2009 -- Uclick, the #1 distributor of comics and manga on mobile, in partnership with graphic novel and manga publisher TOKYOPOP, has announced the release of Dramacon Volume 1, Part 1 from TOKYOPOP, as a free app on Apple's App Store. The free app is a full-length comic book application featuring the first of five installments that make up volume one of the international bestselling manga.

The free Dramacon Volume 1 Issue 1 app from Uclick and TOKYOPOP is available now on Apple's App Store.

The free app is available now in the App Store on iPhone or on iTunes. Users can also access the free Dramacon app through the Uclick Web App by typing Uclick.com into the Safari browser.

) July 2, 2009 -- Innovative publisher, Dare Comics is using eBay to auction the world's first perpetual advertisement. Dare is selling a full page advert in every one of its online publications in perpetuity. Dare Comics Advertisement on eBay

The Hunter Issue #1 Cover

) November 18, 2008 -- For the latest in hip-hop and urban trends, people look to Jimmy Jazz for the hottest sneakers, clean-lined styles, and most up-to-date street fashions. Jimmy Jazz offers the name brands that women, men and kids crave and now award-winning web design firm, Avatar New York, has been awarded the website design project for JimmyJazz.com. This unique partnership will give shoppers even more accessibility to this upscale urban-wear store that already has over 65 stores on the east coast. The site will highlight Jimmy Jazz's cool urban aesthetic with complimentary features that promote street-savvy lifestyles.

These days a new Urban TV Shopping Channel has come to surface, creating opportunities for Minorities in the Urban Communities to sell their products on a national TV Shopping Channel called the Black

) November 21, 2008 -- LegacySharing.com is an innovative new website where members create and share life stories. The website offers a secured format to integrate written memories and reflections with videos, audio clips, photographs and other scanned memorabilia, creating an easy and unparalleled experience at www.LegacySharing.com. By creating LegacyBooks, members are able to share more of their thoughts and feelings than could possibly be written in a scrapbook next to a photo.

) June 5, 2009 -- The African American Pavilion at BookExpo America 2009 held its annual prestigious awards ceremony in New York City the fifth Saturday in May. Receiving the Urban Book Series of the Year Award, Kevin M. Weeks was highlighted for the many contributions he has made to people of African descent with book characters that emerge as positive figures on the urban landscape. For a full list of honorees, visit the African American Literature Book Club.

) October 29, 2009 -- DVDVideoSoft, a well-known developer of free multimedia software, is introducing new amazing updates for its most popular tool, the Free YouTube to MP3 Converter, which now features an option of burning an Audio CD.

DVDVideoSoft is constantly working on improvements of users' favourite program, the Free YouTube to MP3 Converter, so that this already widely popular program could find even more users from different parts of the world.

SEIZ Apparel S.L. introduces a new way to design urban backpacks. (PRWeb Mar 18, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/backpack/design/prweb2242514.htm

) May 26, 2009 -- The Graphic Design School announces the launch of its innovative new blog offering another platform for their students to showcase their talents. With 30,000+ hits in the second week, the blog looks sure to add to the school's success.

LEVEL Studios (http://level-studios.com), an independent digital agency, announced the launch of Urban EcoMap (http://www.urbanecomap.org/), a website providing metropolitan communities with relevant data regarding the primary greenhouse gas contributors (transportation, waste and energy) in their respective cities. LEVEL provided user experience services in the development of the site, defining the interface, usability and aesthetics. (PRWeb Jun 23, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/06/prweb2559554.htm

) March 4, 2010 -- When comic publisher and artist / writer Jason Thibault began combing the internet for a website that covered all aspects of the crime genre in the form of a pop culture magazine he came up empty. Enter Blunt Force Beating, a site dedicated to the coverage of crime films, novels, comics, television, documentaries and video games.

) February 13, 2009 -- Despite previous assertions, the overwhelming majority of low-income urban teens are accessing the Internet, buying the latest cell phones and engaging in online social networking. A national survey of more than 1,500 African American and Hispanic teens and young adults, revealed that this group is highly-connected, tech savvy and brand loyal. MEE (Motivational Educational Entertainment) Productions Inc. uncovered these findings during its latest in a series of national surveys focused on the lifestyle trends, behaviors and attitudes of urban youth.

Other notable findings include:

) January 20, 2009 -- "Out From Boneville," the first complete volume of Jeff Smith's critically acclaimed hit comic book series Bone, is now available for download on the iPhone App Store.

The first complete volume of Jeff Smith's Bone series, "Out From Boneville," is now available for download on iPhone and iPod Touch.

"Out From Boneville" is the introductory story arc in Smith's 9-volume epic, originally published over a 13-year span. The six issues comprising "Out From Boneville" are available for the iPhone in six downloadable apps from digital entertainment provider Uclick, the #1 distributor of comics and games on mobile phones.

) October 14, 2008 -- Mogulbaby.com, a new product review blog helping new moms to find modern and trendy baby products, is launching October 13th, 2008.

Mogulbaby.com will be a valuable product review blog for new moms looking for unique, luxury baby products. The product reviews are written honestly, from a mom's point of view. The founder of the blog is Lisa Estall, a seasoned professional in promotion and publicity in film and television industries from New York City. She left her PR career to spend more time with her two children and now freelance writes for sites such as Babycenter.com and Blissful Buzz as well as maintains her own personal blog, Mrs. Mogul.

) January 27, 2009 -- IARC accredited The Graphic Design School announces a January launch of an innovative online learning solution that provides an affordable, one-on-one graphic design qualification to students from anywhere in the world at any
income level. The online course delivers twelve core modules and software video tutorials that provide an innovative self-paced graphic design program supported by one-on-one tutelage by leading graphic design professors.

"The Graphic Design School's online course is the right idea at the right time. Professor Kellie Schroeder says", "The expense of a

) October 9, 2008 -- DVDVideoSoft announces a release of Free Studio, a unique up-to-date application, which combines several multimedia audio and video programs. The application is the result of mutual cooperation of DVDVideoSoft Ltd and its users within two years.

Free Studio is a single package which bundles 15 updated and greatly improved existent tools from DVDVideoSoft to work with video and audio files and five absolutely new ones: Free Audio Converter, Free Disc Burner, Free DVD Video Burner, Free Audio CD Burner, Free Video to DVD.

) July 7, 2009 -- Bidding is underway on Dare Comics' Perpetual Advertisement. Innovative publisher Dare Comics is using eBay to auction the world's first perpetual advertisement. Dare is selling a full page advert in every one of its online publications in perpetuity. Dare's Perpetual Advert Listing on eBay

Interior page from issue #1 of The Hunter

) November 17, 2008 -- Zhura, creator of next-generation performance writing tools, today announced several new features and the addition of a Comic Book Format to its powerful online screenwriting platform.

) October 31, 2008 -- Planetwide Games Inc, creators of the MashON suite of creative social media applications announced the MashON 2008 Halloween Comic Strip Contest, which begins on October 31, 2008 and ends on November 15, 2008. The MashON Halloween Contest is the first in a series of three MashON Holiday contests for 2008, where participants will have the opportunity to create and share their favorite holiday stories at MashON.com.

2008 MashON Halloween Contest

) June 17, 2009 -- Portland-based software company Urban Airship announced today that they have signed a deal to provide leading iPhone application developer Tapulous with support for push notification services, a new offering for Apple iPhone OS 3.0 that will enable Tap Tap Revenge players to challenge one another from within the game interface.

"Graphic Rating has been an active community for several months. During this time many stories, news or comments were posted. We've analyzed all the good and bad reviews that we've received in this period, and we want to make this community more important and to provide its users with good information.", says Andy Gongea - Founder and Chief Editor
Driven by the dynamic visual market, Graphic Rating wants to showcase the latest news, software or services from the visual area. Graphic Rating will deliver reviews for websites, software applications, artwork and also latest news and upcoming events.

Universal Service Fund awarded first contracts, worth Rs. 1.4 Billion in total, for providing Broadband Services in the Un-Served Urban areas of Faisalabad Telecom Region (FTR)

) August 10, 2009 -- Xilisoft.com has introduced the YouTube Video Converter, a unique piece of software that allows one to download videos from YouTube and instantly convert the YouTube videos into a format suitable for iPhone, iPod, or any other multimedia device. This can come in handy since we live in a fast paced world where everything is on-the-go, and with the ever growing popularity of iPhone, PSP, and other portable multimedia devices, users can now watch their movies, TV shows and video clips on-the-go as well.

) April 30, 2009 -- This Saturday, May 2, participating comic book retailers across the nation and around the world will celebrate Free Comic Book Day by offering special edition free comic books to all customers who enter their stores. For the first time ever, UCLICK®, the #1 distributor of comics on the web and on mobile phones, is taking the Free Comic Book Day event to the digital space.

Uclick will offer free comics on the App Store from Friday afternoon, May 1, until Saturday, May 2, at 11:59 p.m. (PST).

A new website Graphic-design-hub.com has launched for graphic designers and the design industry. This innovative website provide a true insight on graphic designers, graphic freelancers, software companies, design schools, publications, advertising, marketing, printing, graphic designers and other design related businesses.
On the eve of launching the new website, a source of graphic-design-hub said," The aim of our website is to provide a new experience to visitor. Graphic design hub will continue to strive in enhancing the website features so as to bring in more and more latest trends on graphic design firms."

) May 29, 2009 -- Uclick©, the #1 provider of comics on the web and on mobile phones, has launched a major update to GoComics.com, featuring a new look and feel as well as enhanced search, more intuitive navigation and improved features for free and premium users, now referred to as Comic Geniuses.

The new GoComics.com launched on May 20 and Uclick reports that they have already seen a dramatic increase in time spent on the site and the number of new registered users.

The new GoComics.com launched on May 20 and Uclick reports that they have already seen a dramatic increase in time spent on the site and the number of new registered users.

) February 3, 2009 -- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Soul's Winter, the collected TMNT comic book tales of legendary Sandman artist Michael Zulli and longtime TMNT writer and Umbra creator Murphy, is now available on iPhone and iPod Touch from digital entertainment provider Uclick. The collection is presented in three apps available for download on the iPhone App Store at $.99 (US) cents each.

The TMNT: Soul's Winter collection is presented in three apps available for download on the iPhone App Store at $.99(US)cents each.

) June 25, 2009 -- Urban fitness junkies have a new mission, thanks to web site SocialWorkout.com: They're out to complete 20 "mind-body" feats by Labor Day, and to blog their achievements. Social Workout, a Web 2.0 cross between Gawker and Chowhound for the urban fitness crowd, traffics in the world of "extreme wellness." The site created the Feats of Summer Challenge to inspire its readers to exercise regularly, eat well, and feel better. "It's just like summer camp, but with adults, in the city, and online," said company founder Oliver Ryan.

CDNetworks selected as exclusive provider of content delivery technology for Comflix Studios' comic book inspired network, SPLASTK. Comflix is the creator and producer of a new generation of comic book and graphic novel-inspired digital entertainment based on an advertiser-supported business model. (PRWeb Oct 21, 2008)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1486174.htm

) June 15, 2009 -- Emmy® Award winning multimedia producer Dai Sugano and Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Deanne Fitzmaurice have collaborated on a short video featuring Think Tank Photo's new Multimedia DSLR bag system. Set in San Francisco's Chinatown, the video features Fitzmaurice utilizing Think Tank's Multimedia Wired Up Collection system to capture still, audio, and movement in a rich urban setting.

) August 15, 2009 -- MGCD has launched two unique websites which capture the spirit of two very different new luxury apartment develops.

The Avery on Southwestern is a modern urban village in a prime Dallas location within the Golden Triangle formed by Northpark Mall, SMU and White Rock Lake. Geared to a young affluent clientele, the development seems like a hip boutique hotel with a chic pool scene and private club. The website captures this A list attitude with a contemporary vibe and clever navigation to connect with the in-the-know clientele.

United Sharks Media today launches a truly global social network for urban citizens around the world. Trigme.com is a free lifestyle and dating site available through the web and through the iPhone

) January 5, 2009 -- UCLICK® revealed an all-new mobile Web application for the iPhone and iPod Touch at the MacWorld event in San Francisco. By navigating to www.uclick.com on these devices, the built-in Safari browser now displays the Uclick archive of 400,000 comic strips, single-panel comics and editorial cartoons.

The new mobile safari site builds on the company's experience from the Uclick GoComics.com desktop site, but the iPhone experience is completely reinvented for Apple handsets.

) April 6, 2009 -- A perfect moment in Halifax, Nova Scotia, captured in a photograph, could lead to many more photo opportunities - in the form of a $2,500 vacation package prize. From the fall colours in Point Pleasant Park to romantic sail around the Halifax Harbour or an outdoor concert on Citadel Hill, perfect moments abound in this beautiful destination.