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
source: Mashable
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
#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.
Title / Domestic Gross in 2013 (in millions usd $$$)
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
Up-and-coming rapper Doe B, a member of Grand Hustle’s Hustle Gang, was shot and killed in his home town of Montgomery, Ala. early Saturday. He was 22. His management confirmed the MC’s death on Twitter.
Doe B — born Glenn Thomas — was fatally shot during an incident at the Centennial Bar and Grill on Highland Avenue in Montgomery. The shooting occurred at around 1:30 a.m. Local reports indicated a second person was also killed, though police have not released victims’ names because all families have not been notified.
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
Beyonce fifth album was released early Friday morning exclusively on iTunes. Apple said Monday that it sold 617,213 in its U.S. iTunes Store. It sold 828,773 internationally. No promotion. No Marketing
The album is being sold by iTunes exclusively for a week at $15.99. It will be sold in retailers and others websites this week.
“Beyonce” broke the first-week digital sales record for an album in the United States. It also marks the singer’s best first-week numbers.
The album will debut at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart this week.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela has died at age 95 of complications from a recurring lung infection.
The anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate was a beloved figure around the world, a symbol of reconciliation from a country with a brutal history of racism.
Source: Yahoo
The Murder of Fred Hampton began as a film portrait of Hampton and the Illinois Black Panther Party, but half way through the shoot, Hampton was murdered by Chicago policeman.
In an infamous moment in Chicago history and politics, over a dozen policeman burst into Hampton’s apartment while its occupants were sleeping, killing Hampton and fellow Panther Mark Clark and brutalizing the other occupants.
Filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk arrived a few hours later to shoot film footage of the crime scene that was later used to contradict news reports and police testimony.
“You can jail the revolutionary, but you can’t jail the revolution…You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hunton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting.” – Fred Hampton.
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