$38 Million for BlackPlanet.com MiGente.com, and AsianAve.com
Copied from paidcontent. The URL on paid contents post starts with 419.. 419 is another way of saying black african scammers. That is a pretty funny, especially after I spent half the day tracking down nigerians
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CommunityConnect, one of the oldest social networks around (since 1996) which has been focused on different ethnic groups, has been sold to a non-obvious buyer: Radio One, the radio network focused on African-American and urban listeners, has bought it for about $38 million. CC owns BlackPlanet.com, MiGente.com, and AsianAve.com, and says has over 20 million members. Ben Sun, CCI’s president and founder, will continue to run the company.
RadioOne has about 53 radio stations located in 16 urban markets in the U.S. Additionally, Radio One owns Magazine One, which owns Giant Magazine, interests in TV One, a cable/satellite network programming primarily to African-Americans and others.
Rothschild was the banker for Radio One; Bear, Stearns was the banker to Community Connect.
April 11, 2008 at 7:13 am
I was really expecting VIACOM to be the ones to buy CommunityConnect since it would have fit so well with their other assets BET/MTV.
April 11, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Heh, my friend almost got scammed by Nigerians last week. A girl he knew had her email account phished, and they emailed him with her identity, saying she was stuck in africa and needed money.
I knew what it was right away, and stopped him after he sent the money, and we were able to get it back.
April 14, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Yes, be careful of those nigerian scammers. The more we educate ourselves, the safer we are
April 15, 2008 at 12:25 am
Im sorry but im confused, this company bought blackplanet….. is that why im having trouble bringing up the website??
April 16, 2008 at 10:12 am
Still waiting for you to get back to me. My banner ad which used to run on your site stopped running, I don’t know why. I do not view our site as competition because we’re in a different category so if you blocked our ad, I don’t see why or you just stopped displaying banner ads? You should be able to see my email address. Please get back to me.
April 21, 2008 at 6:29 pm
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shafi
April 24, 2008 at 10:27 pm
hi,
i am a member of BP and during some days i cannot load the page of bp…says over timelimit and even with the IP i cannot reach bp…why?? am real disturbed cos most of my friends in there…??!!! what can i do ?i even contact my provider and they told me its the failure from bp not from my provider…so pls pls pls and pls..what can i do ?I NEED BLACKPLANET! HELP pls
kindly, luvshola
April 24, 2008 at 10:29 pm
hi again…even migente is not reachable….why?
May 2, 2008 at 5:35 pm
hm very interesting. thanks for the info.
May 3, 2008 at 9:15 am
Hey again…the page just work one day and than up to one week not reachable still same.. i even contact the bphelp@customhelp.com but no reply..i cant even reach bp above the IP adress…dont know whats the prob, cos my friends can browse it..but a lot of ppl complain cos all same problem..what is wrong with bp? did anyone had an answer?
kindly, urs luvshola
May 8, 2008 at 2:41 pm
I do not mind… blackplanet was sold… but I want my blackplanet… again, my friend of diferent part of world… Please…. where is my page… my poetry, my pictures, my friends… etc… T
May 11, 2008 at 10:23 am
Blackplanet what happen, i found it hard to check my page,what happen to blackplanet. Pls i dont want to loose my friends in there on blackplanet, i av good friends in there.
And to all other people saying nigeria are scammer, i belief there are some innocent one in there, who are not scammer, i got good friend on blackplanet and migente, and i never scammed them. They trusted me in there, they see me on webcam, and i gave them my cell number.
NOTE TO ALL BP MEMBERS, IF U ARE INTERESTED IN ANY BODY, FROM ANY COUNTRY, NOTE THAT THE FIRST THING U NEED TO NO IS TOO SEE THEM ON WEBCAM. IF THEY REFUSE SHOWING ON WEBCAM, NOTE THEY ARE NOT REAL IN HERE. AM A NIGERIA LADY, AND I BELIVE IN MY SELF.
May 14, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Although I am a new user of Blackplanet it has been as experience. On the other hand, I have only been able to log in 1 time since I have had the page. It will always redirect, or make it impossible to login. Other than that, I have met some nice people on this site.