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Eric Hamilton: An entrepreneur partners to create iPhone App that supports black-owned businesses
“This newly available mobile application allows users to find the closest black-owned business in their vicinity with colorful maps and pinned locations,” company officials said. “Users can choose from nine-different categories of businesses to locate.
They include ATM/Bank, Auto, Bakery/Café, Beauty Parlor/Barber Shop, Club/ Lounge, Laundry/Dry Cleaners, Lodging, Restaurants and Shopping.
Around The Way is developing an app for phones with Google’s Android operating system, and that version of the app is scheduled to be available in early 2013. The company did not develop an app for the Blackberry mobile phone because it is “too difficult,” Hamilton said.
In 2012’s second quarter, Google and Apple iOS operating system controlled 82.9 percent of the Smartphone market. Besides Google’s Android operating system and Apple’s operating system control 82.9 percent of the global Smartphone market. BlackBerry’s Research in Motion controls less than 5 percent of the Smartphone market, according to research reports.
“Mobile applications are transforming the face of commerce,” Around The Way officials said in a statement. “Around The Way’s sole purpose is to empower black-owned businesses by altering the point of purchase of potential customers.”
Source: New American Media
