source: BoxOfficeMojo
Title Weekend Gross Budget
1. The Help $14.3 Million $25 m
2. Colombiana $10.3 million $40 m
3. Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark $8.6 million $25 m
4. Rise of the Planet of the Apes $8.6 million $93 m
5. Our Idiot Brother $6.5 million $5 m
To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.
As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.
I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.
I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.
Steve
Nick Ashford, one half of the legendary songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson, passed away due to throat cancer in New York Hospital. He was 69.
Jay Z & Kanye West created a high-end foreign rap album with Watch The Throne becoming the highest selling iTunes album in history beating out Coldplay with about 290,000 digital album sales it’s first week out.
Top 200 Album Sales (Top 10 Hip Hop/R&B)
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 1 | Jay-Z & Kanye West | Watch The Throne | 436,000 | 436,000 |
| 7 | Beyonce | 4 | 27,000 | 654,000 |
| 8 | Ace Hood | Blood, Sweat & Tears | 26,000 | 26,000 |
| 11 | Royce Da 5’9 & Eminem (Bad Meets Evil) | Hell: The Sequel | 23,000 | 444,000 |
| 21 | Gucci Mane & Waka Flocka Flame | Ferrari Boyz |
17,000 | 17,000 |
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 25 | Royce Da 5’9 | Success Is Certain | 16,000 | 16,000 |
| 38 | Big Sean | Finally Famous: The Album |
11,000 | 182,000 |
| 111 | Kanye West | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 3,900 | 1,191,000 |
| 178 | Wu-Tang | Legendary Weapons | 2,500 | 16,000 |
| 180 | Tyler, The Creator | Goblin | 2,400 | 102,000 |
Swizz Beats – who most recently appears on Jay-Z & Kanye West’s Watch The Throne– has been named Vice President of Creative Design and Global Marketing for British Car Company Lotus.
“The key is to infiltrate the market in a cool way,” said Swizzy in a clip of his first day on the job. His business philosophy centers on the idea that the key to success is for “things to happen organically.”
Which isn’t to say that Lotus is about to go into the woods and find their zen spirit animal. “They want flash,” Beatz continued – and flash is something this track slinger is definitely familiar with.
“Like Group Lotus, he means business: He’s a risk taker with considerable credentials, including music producer, rapper, designer and painter,” a Lotus rep said in a statement. “(He’s) the perfect man to add to the Lotus lineup.”
Maybach Music Group’s rising star Meek Mill drops his latest mixtape. #DREAMCHASERS
Features Rick Ross, Beanie Sigel, Young Chris and more… Produced by Jahlil Beatz and Lex Luger.
Google just announced that it is acquiring Motorola Mobility. The search and online advertising company is buying the company for approximately $12.5 billion (or $40 per share), in cash. The price represents a premium of 63 percent to the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares last Friday. Google had about $39 billion in cash at last count.
In a blog post, Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page writes that Google has acquired Motorola not only because of its strength in Android smartphones and devices, but also for being a “market leader in the home devices and video solutions business.”
It’s also a move to build up the company’s patent portfolio, he adds, as it will “enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies”.
According to Motorola Mobility’s website, the company holds approximately 14,600 granted patents and 6,700 pending patent applications, worldwide, as of January 2011.
Title Weekend Gross
1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes $54 Million
2. The Smurfs $21 Million
3. Cowboys & Aliens $15.7 Million
4. The Change-Up $13.5 Million
5. Captain America: The First Avenger $13 Million
directed by TanB Films
Ethnicity: German
Hometown: Newport News, VA
Measurements: 36C-27-42
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