“Had a couple of meetings no offers yet, Maybe I aint good enough for these offices, Back to the drawing board ducking officers, It’s all good cos the streets is A&R’ing this” These are the first four lines to the final verse of So ambitious a track with a guest appearance by Pharell on Jay-Z’s [...]
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Pocket Gamer biz reports that Zynga – maker of Mafia Wars and Farmville social games for Facebook and myspace – has just raised $180 MM in venture capital from the same Russian investment consortium that invested in Facebook. The deal puts Zynga’s valua tion at somewhere between $1.5 and $3 BILLION. My first reaction was [...]
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Ben Lee wrote a song about Jay-Z who he says he idolizes because he came from the amongst most unexpected places (A crack dealer who was born and raised in Brooklyn’s Marcy projects) and rose to become CEO of a record label. Not to mention, multi-platinum selling recording artist and founder and CEO of a [...]
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Mashable reports that AT&T’s CEO, Ralph De la Vega is considering a pricing strategy that charges heavy users of data (read iPhone and some Blackberry Bold users) a higher price for data usage. Maybe this will surface as a surcharge, or just creating a variable data plan rate. Either way, this feels counter to the [...]
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By now, the new coke fountains that produce over 100 flavours of beverage have started rolling out to a number of quick serve restaurants so there’s a decent chance that you’ve seen and/or used one of them. They’re cool. No doubt, being able to order Sprite with a blast of cherry flavour made my sandwich [...]
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