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11 Year Old Moziah Bridges Bow Tie Business

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August 11, 2013

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Moziah Bridges has been in business since 10 years old and is an inspiration to kid entrepreneurs around the world.

Amazon Enters Online Art Market

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August 8, 2013

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On Tuesday, the online retailer announced the start of Amazon Art, where customers can buy original and limited-edition art from more than 150 dealers and 4,500 artists, ranging in price from a $10 screen print by the up-and-comer Ryan Humphrey to a $4.85 million painting by Norman Rockwell.

Amazon, which worked with Sotheby’s for a short-lived experiment selling art on the Web in 1999, will now vie with other, more established competitors in the online marketplace, including Artsy and Artnet.

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Rap Group Da YoungFellaz Sued For Spending $130k Marketing Loan On Weed

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August 8, 2013

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source: NYPost

A group of rap-star wannabes blew a $130,000 marketing loan on drugs, first-class airplane tickets and cross-country trips to entertainment festivals — where they weren’t even performing, a new Manhattan lawsuit claims.

While Bronx-based Da YoungFellaz, who have rhymed with Talib Kweli and Snoop Dogg, boast on their Web site that they “haven’t just sat around and waited for fame to land in their lap,” their legal adversaries tell a very different story.

StigmaSound, a Manhattan recording studio, says YoungFellaz Joseph Aguiar, Johnny Aguiar and Brett Officer blew through their first $25,000 loan, meant to rocket the group “toward A-level stardom in the entertainment industry,” in just three months by last October.

“The defendants used loan money . . . for illegal purchases of marijuana,” the Manhattan Supreme Court suit alleges. Read More

Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 8/4/2013

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August 7, 2013

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#1. Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines – 177,000 (177,000)

#3. Jay Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail – 62,000 (797,000)

#4. Tech N9ne – Something Else – 58,000 (58,000)

#14. J. Cole – Born Sinner – 17,000 (544,000)

#16. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 17,000 (967,000)

#34. Wale – The Gifted – 10,000 (278,000)

#36. YMCMB & Friends – Rich Gang – 9,600 (33,000)

#38. Kanye West – Yeezus – 9,200 (497,000)

#64. Ace Hood – Trials & Tribulations – 6,400 (51,000)

#81. Mac Miller – Watching Movies With The Sound Off – 5,100 (167,000)

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

Jeff Bezos , Amazon founder Buys Washington Post for $250 Million

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August 5, 2013

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(Reuters) – The Washington Post Co said it has sold its flagship newspaper to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.

The purchase price is $250 million, subject to normal working capital adjustments, payable at closing later this year.

Christies To Apppraise DIA Art

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August 5, 2013

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Detroit — Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr announced Monday that he has contracted with Christie’s Appraisals, the New York-based international auction house, to appraise the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts. The city of Detroit is in $18 billion dollars worth of debt and Christies will have the appraisal completed by fall. Sources estimate the DIA holdings to be worth close to $2 billion.

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Weekend Box Office: August 2-4, 2013

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August 5, 2013

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Title / Gross (in millions usd)

2 Guns $27.3 m
The Wolverine $21.7 m
The Smurfs 2 $18.2 m
The Conjuring $13.6 m
Despicable Me 2 $10.3 m

Top Internet Entrepreneurs

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August 5, 2013

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Making money online has evolved a lot over the past few years, every day people become millionaires through the internet and they were just like you, searching through the internet for that piece of inspiration that would give them the kick they needed to make it happen. One of the easiest ways to make money and start an internet business today is by creating a blog or sellling your instagram photos Check out How We Make Money Online thru #Instacanvas and give it a go yourself.

Top Internet Entrepreneurs

Rank	Name	Website	Year Website Launched	Net Worth
1	Larry Page	Google	1998	$18.5 Billion
2	Sergey Brin	Google	1998	$18.5 Billion
3	Jeff Bezos	Amazon	1994	$8.7 Billlion
4	Pierre Omidyar	eBay	1995	$6.3 Billion
5	Eric Schmidt	Google	1998	$5.9 Billion
6	Ronald Burkle	Yahoo	1995	$3.5 Billion
7	Mark Cuban	Broadcast.com	1995	$2.6 Billion
8	Jerry Yang	Yahoo	1995	$2.3 Billion
9	Omid Kordestani	Google	1998	$1.9 Billion
10	David Filo	Yahoo	1995	$1.7 Billion
11	Kavitark Ram Shriram	Google	1998	$1.7 Billion
12	Todd Wagner	Broadcast.com	1995	$1.5 Billion
13	Peter Thiel	PayPal	1998	$1.3 Billion
14	Niklas Zennstrom	Skype	2003	$1.3 Billion
15	Janus Friis	Skype	2003	$1.3 Billion
16	Jack Ma	Alibaba	1999	$1.1 Billion
17	Mark Zuckerberg	Facebook	2004	$700 Million
18	Simon Nixon	MoneySuperMarket	1999	$680 Million
19	Andrew Gower	Runescape	2001	$650 Million
20	Reid Hoffman	LinkedIn	2003	$500 Million
21	Zhang Chaoyang	Sohu	1996	$425 Million
22	Steve Chen	YouTube	2005	$350 Million
23	Elon Musk	PayPal	1998	$328 Million
24	Chad Hurley	YouTube	2005	$300 Million
25	Duncan Cameron	MoneySuperMarket	1999	$280 Million
26	Marc Andreesen	Netscape	1994	$253 Million
27	Reed Hastings	NetFlix	1997	$150 Million
28	Blake Ross	Mozila	1998	$120 Million
29	Andrew Michael	Fasthost	1999	$110 Million
30	Max Levchin	PayPal	1998	$100 Million

Spike Lee Raising Money for Film on Kickstarter

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August 1, 2013

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Spike Lee is looking to raise $1.2 million for his new indie film titled, “BLOOD” thru a kickstarter campaign. Spike Lee has been doing kickstarter since his first film Shes Gotta Have it before internet and social media was popular. Spike Lee raised the money to complete historic film Malcolm X with donations from Bill Cosby, Oprah Winfrey, Janet Jackson, Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Michael Jordan.

Dontate to help finance Spike Lee’s next joint on Kickstarter