Billboard Hot 100 Singles – Week of Apr.14, 2012

Billboard Hot 100 Singles – Week of Apr.14, 2012

1. fun. f/ Janelle Monae “We Are Young”
2. Justin Bieber, “Boyfriend”
3. Gotye f/ Kimbra, “Somebody That I Used To Know”
4. The Wanter, “Glad You Came”
5. Kelly Clarkson, “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)”
6. Nicki Minaj, “Starships”
7. Flo Rida f/ Sia, “Wild Ones”
8. Katy Perry, “Part Of Me”
9. One Direction, “What Makes You Beautiful”
10.Carly Rae Jepsen, “Call Me Maybe”

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Google’s ex-CEO gets $101M pay package in new job

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Associated Press – Fri, Apr 20, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Shifting from Google’s CEO to executive chairman proved to be lucrative career move for Eric Schmidt.

Google Inc. awarded Schmidt a compensation package valued at $101 million last year, according to a Friday regulatory filing. The amount is 322 times higher than the $313,219 package that Schmidt received in 2010 during his final full year as the Internet search leader’s CEO.

Schmidt, 56, ended a decade-long stint as Google’s CEO last April and turned over the job to Google co-founder Larry Page.

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Chip lets smartphones see through walls, clothes

Researchers at a Texas university have designed a chip that could give smartphones the long-envied ability of comic book her Superman to see through walls, clothes or other objects.

A team at University of Texas at Dallas tuned a small, inexpensive microchip to discern a “terahertz” band of the electromagnetic spectrum.

The design works with chips made using Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor technology behind processors commonly found in personal computers, smartphones, televisions and videogame consoles.

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Billboard Hot 100 Singles – Week of Apr.07, 2012

1. fun. f/ Janelle Monae “We Are Young”
2. Kelly Clarkson, “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)”
3. The Wanter, “Glad You Came”
4. Gotye f/ Kimbra, “Somebody That I Used To Know”
5. Nicki Minaj, “Starships”
6. Adele, “Set Fire To The Rain”
7. Flo Rida f/ Sia, “Wild Ones”
8. Katy Perry, “Part Of Me”
9. Drake f/ Rihanna “Take Care”
10.David Guetta f/ Nicki Minaj, “Turn Me On”

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Disney’s Rich Ross Exit: Speculation Swirls Around Possible Replacements

Several names have emerged as possible successors to the fired studio head.

With Rich Ross forced to resign Friday from his post of chairman of Walt Disney Studios, Disney CEO Bob Iger is now tasked with replacing an executive whose rocky tenure demonstrated an inability to transition his success in television to film.
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Sources say Iger informed studio insiders Friday that he doesn’t have anyone in mind for the job yet and is no rush to fill the position. The studio has dramatically trimmed the number of movies it is making and is in production on only one film, Johnny Depp’s The Lone Ranger, limiting the destabilizing effect of a studio head exit.

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