Stalley sat down with DJ Quiz for one of his DJ Quiz Knows interview segments and gave his thoughts on the recent NCAA basketball tournament, Jeremy Lin and other music related topics. For those that don’t know Stalley played D1 ball in college for an injury forced him to sideline his hoop dreams. Stalley’s Savage Journey To The American Dream mixtape is available now.
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is spending $1 billion to buy the photo-sharing company Instagram in the social network’s largest acquisition ever.
Instagram lets people apply filters to photos they snap with their mobile devices and share them with friends and strangers. Some of the filters make the photos look as if they’ve been taken in the 1970s or on Polaroid cameras.
“This is an important milestone for Facebook because it’s the first time we’ve ever acquired a product and company with so many users,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page. “We don’t plan on doing many more of these, if any at all.”
Facebook said it plans to keep Instagram running independently. That’s a departure from its tendency to buy small startups and integrate the technology — or shut them down altogether just so it can hire talented engineers and developers.
“We think the fact that Instagram is connected to other services beyond Facebook is an important part of the experience,” Zuckerberg wrote. “We plan on keeping features like the ability to post to other social networks, the ability to not share your Instagrams on Facebook if you want, and the ability to have followers and follow people separately from your friends on Facebook.”
Facebook is paying cash and stock for San Francisco-based Instagram and hiring its roughly 10 employees. The deal is expected to close by the end of June.
Menlo Park, Calif.-based Facebook is expected to complete its initial public offering of stock next month. Getting Instagram is big win for Facebook as it works to harness people’s growing obsession with their mobile devices and sharing every moment of their life.
Instagram was only available Apple devices until recently. An app for Android devices was released last week.
-Yahoo News
Choice Max FM recently caught up with Drake to discuss how he linked up with fellow Toronto artist The Weeknd and the origin story of their Take Care collab, “Crew Love.” After hearing the explanation you can see why Drizzy connected to The Weeknd’s lyrics. Groupies on deck.
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Week in and week out The Combat Jack show is always an entertaining and educational experience but last week’s episode was especially engaging for those interested in the world of entertainment media. Combat, Dallas and the rest of the crew had the Editor-In-Chief and Senior Writer/Strategist Joe La Puma in the building for an interview to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of Complex Magazine. The two discussed the origins and rise of Complex’s extensive media network, converting their staff to the school of online, and various memorable shoots for the mag including their Lil Wayne, Aubrey O’Day and Rick Ross/Andy Samberg covers.
If you’re in the print and/or digital news game this is an episode you ought to be checkin’ for. Congrats to Climate Complex on 10 years of quality content.
The Combat Jack Show feat. Dallas Penn airs every Wednesday night at 10pm EST on PNCRadio.fm. You can checkout all the great back episodes via free iTunes download or Soundcloud stream.
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HBO Boxing presents a spotlight of the sport’s most acclaimed fighter in Portrait Of A Fighter – Floyd Mayweather. “Pretty Boy Floyd” breaks down his definition of a champion, defines the limits to which he’s willing to push his “Money Mayweather” persona and the change in his motivations as his career has progressed among other things. You can catch Floyd on the debut episode of 24/7: Mayweather vs. Cotto on Saturday, April 14th.
“Money don’t make me. I make money.”
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After draining a tre-bomb in the final moments of regulation to send today’s game into overtime, Melo sunk a game-wiing 3 against the Chicago Bulls with 9 seconds left in OT. Carmelo’s been on a bit of a hot streak lately and managed to put up 43 points vs. D. Rose & co.; a Knick season high. LaLa is sure to give up that good-good tonight.
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During last night’s game against the Indiana Pacers, OKC’s Kevin Durant decide to give the kids a new poster to hang on their walls and posterized Roy Hibbert. Durant had 44 points for the night. Fatality, Durantula wins (actually the Thunder lost, but you get the point).
Nicki stopped by The Today show to chop it up with OG hip-hop journalist Matt Lauer about her recently-released sophomore album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, how she picks out her outfits from day-to-day and being influenced by Madonna. You can also catch her performance of “Starships” after the jump.
Sidenote: Starship Troopers > “Starships”
You get to see RiRi in lacy attire in a cool recreation of 1950′s Havana, Cuba. That’s it, that’s my write up, what more do you need to know? Here’s the “fancy” version courtesy of Elle below if you want all the extra details, though.
For this month’s cover shoot, ELLE Creative Director Joe Zee imagined a romantic narrative starring Rihanna as the fiery heroine in a passionate affair with a salsa dancer. On an early February morning, the ELLE production team transformed the Veluzat Motion Picture Ranch northwest of Los Angeles into the ideal backdrop: a windswept town evocative of documentary photographer Robert Polidori’s shots of deserted, patina-rich Havana interiors.
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As promised, The Game drops his new mixtape, California Republic, with host DJ Skee and a healthy assortment of features including Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Drake, Pharrell, Lupe Fiasco, 2 Chainz, French Montana, Fabolous, Fat Joe, Shyne and Trey Songz. The project should hold over fans of the West Coast emcee until the arrival of his fifth studio LP, F.I.V.E., later this year. Get the download link and tracklist after the jump.
