Detroit’s youngest mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick was supposed to drive the city in a new direction. Officials eventually accused him of running the city like a crime boss.
source: CNBC
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Queen Virgin Remy Washington DC Opens May 1st
Queen Virgin Remy is the nation’s #1 Leader in exotic hair extensions, with store locations popping up all over the country. Queen Virgin Remy offers a wide selection of Virgin Extensions such as Brazilian, Malaysian, Peruvian, Cambodian, Eurasian, Russian Blonde and much more at prices as low as $45 per bundle!
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Facebook Buys Whatsapp for $19 Billion
Facebook Inc. agreed to buy messaging company WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock.
The 55-employee company, which acts as a kind of replacement for text messaging, has seen its use more than double in the past nine months to 450 million monthly users. That makes its service more popular than Twitter Inc., the widely used microblogging service which has about 240 million users and is currently valued at about $30 billion.
Source: WallStreetJournal
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Google Buys Nest for $3.2 Billion in Cash
Google has entered into an agreement to acquire Nest, the business behind the smart thermostat and smoke detector, for $3.2 billion in cash.
Nest was founded by Tony Fadell, a former Apple employee who is credited with being the brains behind the iPod, in 2010. Fadell will continue to run Nest and the company will operate as a standalone brand under Google.
source: Mashable
Colorado Sells $5 Million Worth of Legal Marijuana 1st Week
Owners of the 37 new dispensaries around Colorado reported first week retail sales when added together, were roughly $5 million.
Colorado, the first state to allow retail recreational marijuana sales to adults age 21 and older, has projected nearly $600 million in combined wholesale and retail marijuana sales annually. The state, which expects to collect nearly $70 million in tax revenue from pot sales this year.
source: HuffingtonPost
Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 1/5/2013
#2. Beyonce – Beyonce – 130,000 (503,000)
#3. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP 2 – 55,000 (1,781,000)
#11. R. Kelly – Black Panties – 31,000 (269,000)
#15. Drake – Nothing Was The Same – 24,000 (1,368,000)
#17. Justin Timberlake – 20/20 Experience Complete – 20,000 (801,000)
#18. Childish Gambino – because the internet – 16,000 (173,000)
#21. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 14,000 (1,246,000)
#36. B.o.B – Underground Luxury – 9,000 (63,000)
#39. Justin Timberlake – 20/20 Experience – 9,000 (2,436,000)
#41. Yo Gotti – I Am – 8,600 (120,000)
#65. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city – 5,900 (1,132,000)
#69. Kanye West – Yeezus – 5,600 (630,000)
#76. Jay Z – Magna Carta…Holy Grail – 5,300 (1,104,000)
#148. 2 Chainz – B.O.A.T.S. II #MeTime – 3,300 (221,000)
* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousand for units above 10,000, nearest hundred for units below 10,000.
2013 Yearly Box Office
Title / Domestic Gross in 2013 (in millions usd $$$)
- Iron Man 3 $409 m
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire $391 m
- Despicable Me 2 $367 m
- Man of Steel $291 m
- Monsters University $268 m
- Gravity $254 m
- Frozen (2013) $248 m
- Fast & Furious 6 $238 m
- Oz The Great and Powerful $234 m
- Star Trek Into Darkness $228 m
Queen Virgin Remy Birmingham Opens January 3rd 2014
Queen Virgin Remy Specializes in exotic Virgin Hair and Remy extensions with store locations in Atlanta, Detroit and Las Vegas.
Birmingham, AL location will be opening on January 3rd, 2014
George Zimmerman Sells Artwork for $100k
An original oil painting by George Zimmerman, the neighbourhood watch volunteer who shot Florida kid Trayvon Martin, has fetched more than $100,000 on eBay.
The signed 18-inch-by-24-inch artwork depicts part of a blue American flag and includes the words “God,” “one nation,” and “with liberty and justice for all” printed in the stripes.
Source: yahoo
Weekend Box Office: November 22-24, 2013
Title / Weekend Gross (in millions usd $$$)
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire $158 m
- Thor: The Dark World $14.1 m
- The Best Man Holiday $12.4 m
- Delivery Man $7.9 m
- Free Birds $5.3 m
Anatomy of a Top Performing CEO
Data compiled by the Harvard Business Review, Domo and CEO.com created an infographic to show us what a top-performing CEO looks like.
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