By Michelle D. Madsen What people wear and their sense of style constitute a significant way in which individuals express themselves, says Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, which changed its corporate name to Meta last October. Thus, Meta Platforms, through high-end clothing items for its avatars, will make it possible for users to more
By Billy Houghton VeeFriends is the NFT project of Gary Vaynerchuk, who has seen recent upticks in fame because of his high-octane financial advice. Often called Gary Vee, he has created the VeeFriends Collection to bring to life his ambitions of building a vast community around his specific brand of creative marketing and business advice.
By George A. Willis Two years ago, Dave Christopher knew something had to change. COVID-19 shut down his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, in the spring of 2020. Many businesses in his city didn’t survive, while others barely managed with the help of grants and Paycheck Protection Program loans. But Christopher took a closer look and
By Lem Satterfield Mykal Manswell speaks with maturity beyond his years, especially when addressing mental health concerns among African Americans related to racism and the pandemic. The 25-year-old former college football player referenced racial suffering having affected blacks since the birth of America and beyond during an interview with Zenger. “The African-American community has unfortunately
By Michelle D. Madsen Tripp Inc., a Los Angeles-based digital wellness platform, says it has raised $11.2 million to finance ways to technologically enhance well-being in the metaverse. The Tripp platform enables users to create their own experience of visuals and sounds during meditation sessions. The company provides users with a variety of virtual environments
By Jonathan Hobbs Financial literacy takes education. That’s where The Wall Street Degen Club comes in. The Wall Street Degen Club (WSDC) is a blockchain-based private trading community. (A blockchain is a digital ledger of transactions.) It is also an online university that offers courses about trading and finance. The focus is educating holders in
By Michelle D. Madsen Galaxy Racer, a Dubai-based transmedia company, recently announced a $25 million investment in the Quint ecosystem token, $QUINT. The move makes Galaxy the first eSports and lifestyle organization to commit substantial funds to a cryptocurrency ecosystem. Quint will also become Galary Racer’s “native ecosystem token partner” as a result of this
By Michelle D. Madsen A new pay service is bridging the gap between the virtual world and real-world ecommerce. Worldline has entered the metaverse, a virtual reality world, giving merchants the tools needed to function in a digital universe. The Worldline Metaverse showroom, which launched in March 2022, is an important part of Worldline’s goal
By Michelle D. Madsen The Bulls & Apes Project is a 3D NFT (non-fungible token) initiative seeking to redefine what NFT collectors should expect and want from their collections. There are 10,000 OG Bulls located in the Mint #1 location. Owners of Bull NFTs will have the ability to mint collections using their tokens, with
By Kevin Michael Briscoe Hyundai unveiled one of the world’s largest marketing efforts to sell electric vehicles to African Americans. Culture Brands, a Washington, D.C.-area firm that made news last year by becoming the automaker’s first minority advertising agency of record, is leading the strategy and design of the new campaign. Featuring the all-electric 2022
