Tag: 50CENT

Curtis Jackson, better known as 50 Cent, made himself a cool $8.7 million on Monday, thanks to his widely followed Twitter account. The rapper started plugging H&H Imports, of whose dirt-cheap stock Jackson owned 30 million shares. At the opening of Monday's trading day, H&H was valued at $0.10 a share, and, by the time the closing bell rang, the price had climbed to $0.39, or an increase ...

Never one to miss a marketing opportunity, rapper Curtis Jackson, a.k.a. 50 Cent, has opened the doors to his new social networking site, ThisIs50.com. Sorta like MySpace for the G-Unit set (wait, isn't MySpace for the G-Unit set?), the site features embedded videos and music players, along with plenty of G-Unit marketing fodder mixed in for good measure. ("You have two new messages in your ...