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Jacob R. Miles III, Founder, CEO and Chairman has held his position since the inception of the company. He has over 25 years experience working in products, media and entertainment businesses. Prior to holding this position Mr. Miles was CEO and Chairman of Urban Television Network Corp., a multi-culturally focused national broadcast television network. Before this he was President & CEO of Urban Cool Network Inc., a leading urban focused internet portal. In this capacity he led the vision and execution of the build out of the technology infrastructure and content. He also held a leadership position on Vice President, Al Core’s Digital Divide Initiatives in the inner cities of America. Mr. Miles is also a past Vice President of Hasbro’s Tonka Toys Div., A senior executive for General Mills Toy and Entertainment Group and prior to that he was employed by General Electric Corp. Mr. Miles is an alumnus of University of Cincinnati Engineering School; He has taken management courses at New York University and Xavier University. He has been featured in various newspapers, magazines, television and radio outlets, Including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, BET, Business Week, and Today Show among others. He has also been featured in several leading business books. Mr. Miles has served as Arts Commissioner for the City of Minneapolis, on the board of the United Way Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota Children’s Museum and as Neighborhood Coordinator and Council delegate for the city of Cincinnati. He currently serves on the board of Directors of the City of Grapevine, Texas’ Grapevine Heritage Foundation and MeMe and My World Inc. He is a co-founder of Beautiful Africa LLC and MeMe and My World Inc. He has received the Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award from Minneapolis College and speaks at media and entertainment conferences nationally and internationally.
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Young and Fashionable are drawn to Street Fashion and Virtual Shopping
Fashion has always been one of the most trend influenced industry segments in he world and will continue to be for the foreeable future….say Jacob Miles, CEO of GrapevineStar
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Most Active Mobile – Talk and Text Users
Nielsen: African-Americans, Women, Southerners Tops in Talking, Texting
by Mark Walsh for MediaPost
When it comes to talking and texting on mobile phones, African-Americans, women and Southerners are the most active users, according to data released today by Nielsen.
African-Americans use the most voice minutes, more than 1,300 a month on average, followed by Hispanics with 826 minutes [...] -
Trend Alert – Back to Schools – Kids and Computers
Back to School for Kids—And Computers
As another summer winds to a close, you’re probably wondering where the time went—and why you let the kids spend so much of it on the computer. The start of school is a perfect time for a full-scale hard drive cleanup and the re-institution of responsible Internet habits.
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Trend Alert – China Bans Sex, Violence and Gambling in the Promotion of Videogames
Does the violence in video games have a negative impact on children’s ability to maintain the attention and focus to learn and does it cause more violence or insensitivity to violence among youth? What do you think?
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Trend Alert – Saving the Whales is Important!
The trend for school children to be focused on saving the whales will continue. Whales are fascinating to children and adults alike. Look for them to continue to be a popular theme in children’s merchandise, discovery channel specials and classrooms. Here is a little refresher course on this awesome mammal.
Whale (origin Old English hƿæl) is [...] -
Trend Alert – Bobby Jindhal, Business Leadership without Sensational Politics
Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Amar and Raj Jindal, who came to the United States as immigrants from Punjab, India.[2]
Jindal attended Baton Rouge Magnet High School, graduating in 1988. “He always had his eye on, first of all, where he wanted to go, and second, how he was going to get there,” [...] -
Cruise, Cameron, Mel Gibson, Eclipse, Inception & Salt – The Hollywood Summer Movie Season is Heating Up!
Not even the UFO’s in China, DroidX, IPhone problems or Mel Gibson could overshadow the arrival at the box office of the summer movie, “Incepton”, Starring Leonardo DiCaprio …and next up SALT, starring Angelina Jole
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Trend Alert – Lindsay Lohan, Lebron James, Lady Gaga
Pop Culture icons Lindsay Lohan, Lebron James and Lady Gaga are all indicative of the celebrity narcissim that is pervasive in America today. In each case it is all about them and their needs. What do You Think?
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Trend Alert – Hulu Plus Subscription Digital Video Streaming Announced
The American video-streaming website Hulu announced its new Hulu Plus subscription service on Tuesday. The monthly US$9.95 “ad-supported” premium service offers at least 33 current American television series, as well as the full episode lineup of “hundreds” of past television series, with 720p-resolution for high-definition content. Although anime programming has been on Hulu for years, [...]
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Trend Alert – Education Program adds up to Math Success
Program adds up to math success in schools
Reasoning Mind to go national.
Reasoning Mind is a highly acclaimed math program that makes learning math in second through sixth grades not only easy but downright fun.
“Reasoning Mind engaged our students from grade 2 to grade 4, and that has been expanded to grades 5 and 6,” said [...]
