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Young adults from affluent families are more likely to live at home than their poorer counterparts, a new study from Australia’s Melbourne Institute has found (via the Wall Street Journal). Three quarters of 20-year-olds from wealthy backgrounds live at home, while less than two-thirds of young adults whose families used welfare still rely on them for financial support, the report finds.

Nas “Daughters” [Produced By No I.D.]

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Nas delivers the third single off of his upcoming album Life Is Good. produced by No I.D.

Will Smith and Jay-Z Invest in Viddy

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Jay-Z and Will Smith are putting their money where your camera is — and are backing a new video-sharing application Viddy. Viddy is to video what Instagram is to photos and there are already 10 million registered users with 300,000 new members joining daily.
Brett O’Brian, the app’s founder, says Jay, Will, Shakira and Twitter founder Biz Stone have bought undisclosed shares in the company and will use their influence to expand its reach.

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Jay-Z Launches New Facebook App Empire

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Jay-Z has released a new Facebook game dubbed Empire. The hustler-turned-entrepreneur wants you to follow his steps in becoming a business mogul. Empire closely mimics the hip-hop star’s life from his time in the housing projects in Brooklyn to his eventual rise as global businessman.
“Make the right choices and the World belongs to you. Live the dream,” the game’s prompt reads.
In terms of gameplay, Empire follows the same routine and mechanics of most Facebook games. You have an energy bar in which you can perform tasks like engaging in rap battles, making a mix tape for street cred, getting a job for money, etc. In turn, these actions earn you experience, money, or fame which you can use to level up. Do it all right and you can end up living the high life in sunny Miami.
The game features several mini-games inside of it like rap battles or Cee-Lo, a dice game, but for the most part you’ll be using your energy to perform the goals given to you. As with most Facebook games, Empire encourages you to spend money on Facebook credits to complete goals quicker or gain more energy.
If you’re a fan of Jay-Z, inspired by his remarkable life journey, you may want to check out Empire, now available on Facebook. Read More

Noreaga feat. Styles P & Raekwon “Google That”

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Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 4/22/2012

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April 25, 2012

#6. Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – 48,000 (383,000)

#8. Future – Pluto – 41,000 (41,000)

#20. Drake – Take Care – 16,000 (1,699,000)

#46. Tyga – Careless World: Rise Of The Last King – 8,300 (199,000)

#57. Young Jeezy – TM103: Hustlerz Ambition – 7,000 (567,000)

#65. Trip Lee – The Good Life – 6,000 (24,000)

#81. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne – 5,000 (1,417,000)

#93. Odd Future – OF Tape, Vol. 2 – 4,300 (69,000)

#152. Diggy – Unexpected Arrival – 2,700 (45,000)

#167. Snoop Dogg – Stoner’s EP – 2,500 (2,500)

* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.

Facebook Has 901 Million Users

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April 23, 2012

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Facebook disclosed on Monday that it has 901 million users, making it likely that it will pass the 1 billion mark well before the end of the year.

The company, which dropped the stat in its amended S-1 filing, also notes that its network receives 3.2 billion comments per day and 300 million new photos daily. The site also claims 125 billion friendships. Of the 901 million figure, 526 million were described as daily active users in March. Some 488 million people also used Facebook mobile products that month, according to the filing.

When Facebook filed its IPO paperwork with the SEC in February, the network tallied 845 million users. Back in January, Gregory Lyons, a senior analyst at iCrossing, estimated that Facebook would hit 1 billion users by August, a rate of growth that appears plausible based on the latest numbers.

Even before Monday’s latest numbers dropped, Facebook was by far the largest social network in the world. Twitter, which passed 500 million users in February, is number two on the list — although Twitter says that only 140 million of those accounts are active.

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Weekend @ the Box Office: April 20-22

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April 23, 2012

Title / Weekend Gross (in millions usd)

1. Think Like A Man $33.6 m
2. The Lucky One $22.5 m
3. Hunger Games $14.6 m
4. Chimpanzee $10.6 m
5. The Three Stooges $8 m

How Google Searches Entire Web in Half a Second

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April 23, 2012

It only takes half a second for Google to return a search based on keywords you type in, but there’s a whole lot more happening behind the scenes to give you the results you need. Google on Monday launched a video that explains the science behind how the massive search engine actually works.

Matt Cutts, software engineer head of Google’s webspam team, details in a YouTube video how the search engine giant thoroughly scours the web on a daily basis to provide the most up-to-date results to users.
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Pharrell “Places And Spaces I’ve Been” cover art

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April 21, 2012

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