Eminem’s Recovery Goes Platinum, Stays Healthy At #1 Drake’s Thank Me Later holds onto Billboard #2, while ‘Eclipse’ soundtrack jumps up to #3 with movie’s release. He may not have crossed the platinum plateau in his first week on shelves, but Eminem cruised past it in the second week, as Recovery moved another 313,000 copies [...]
With impressive sales of his debut album, the rapper Drake leads a wavelet of new releases on the Billboard album chart. Drake’s “Thank Me Later” (Aspire/Young Money/Cash Money) sold 447,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It was the third biggest opening week of the year, after Sade (502,000) and Lady Antebellum [...]
Drake Donates $25,000 to Jamaica Drake is an all-around nice guy. He has donated $25,000 to Jamaica. He donated the funds to Mavado, a dancehall singer who is building a learning center. The Weekend Star reported that Drake said, “I had a great time when I was in Jamaica and the people of Cassava Piece [...]
Thirty-two teams kicked off the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™. Only four remain, namely Uruguay, the Netherlands, Germany and Spain. FIFA.com wants to know which team you were supporting at the start of the tournament and which one you now want to lift the Trophy on 11 July. Simply click ‘Add your comment’ to [...]
JOHANNESBURG—Nearly a month, 62 matches and tens of thousands of vuvuzela bleats later, the World Cup is down to two title contenders: Spain and The Netherlands will meet in Sunday’s final at Soccer City. Spain’s veteran central defender Carles Puyol soared high in the 73rd minute from a corner to head into the German net [...]
George Tarrab’s company, Slider the UNscooter, debuted its product line in 2008 and quickly sold 250,000 ride-on scooters. Then came the downturn, and banks weren’t interested in extending credit to startups. Private investors were interested, but Tarrab didn’t want to give up an ownership stake in the Simi Valley, Calif., company. But Slider sales were [...]
On a crisp autumn night in 2007 in Wellesley, Mass., while most Babson College students were poring over books, Lin Miao and his business partners were in their dorm pouring Dom Pérignon to celebrate their college business hitting $1 million in sales. Less than a year earlier, Miao had partnered up with fellow Babson students [...]
6 tips for starting a business with little industry experience or business know-how Timothy Ericson can quickly sum up what he and his business partner knew about the bike-sharing industry before launching a business in the field two years ago. “We started from nothing,” says Ericson, CEO and co-founder of CityRyde, a bike-sharing consulting firm. [...]
Brazil coach Dunga and all of his technical staff have been dismissed after the side’s quarter-final exit from the World Cup, the Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) announced on Sunday. The decision was widely expected after Brazil was beaten 2-1 by the Netherlands in the quarter-finals on Friday. The team took a 1-0 lead in the [...]