Apple stock is flying high, although since its boffo fiscal Q2 2012 (calendar year Q1 2012) earnings results the stock has been pretty stagnant (the stock had fallen some 70 points a peak of $636.23 on April 9 before the earnings release, and now sits slightly above $600). With a market cap of $564.38B as the world’s most valuable company, Apple is far below where Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White believes it will end up: a trillion dollars sometime in 2013.

Apple’s level of secrecy over its projects and products has been called draconian, even to the point of inconveniencing (and that’s putting it nicely) employees, and soon they won’t even be able to leave Apple’s facilities to have lunch, for fear of competitors overhearing their conversations. Admittedly, that’s a little hyperbolic, but there is a measure of truth to that statement.

Apple has had a planning request approved by the Cupertino Planning Commission, one that will allow the company to build a two-story, cafeteria-style facility to accommodate employees that currently work out of the various Apple facilities along Bandley Drive on the west side of North De Anza Boulevard. The key: the facility will be Apple-owned, and private, with no public access.

The clock hits midnight and the Raspy one wastes no time in delivering on his promised Dj Drama hosted mixtape “The Consignment”. Dropping 19-tracks which appearances from Young Jeezy, Waka Flocka Flame, Fabolous, Lloyd Banks, Wale, Meek Mill, 2 Chainz, French Montana, D-Block of course and more.

Hit the Jump for the Download Link and Tracklist.

Father’s day comes early as God’s Son drops a touching track for the men with daughter’s. Listen and share the love with this No I.D produced gem “Daughters” as we await Nas’s new album later this year.

Check out the Hot97 vid w/ Nas speaking on the joint after the jump.

The Internet now has a Hall of Fame, nearly 30 years after what is considered its official birthdate, as on Monday, April 23, 2012, the first inductees were announced.

This is the inaugural class of Internet Society’s Hall of Fame. This group includes 33 of the people who were instrumental and influential in the development of the Internet, including World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee; Internet “fathers” Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf; and former director of DARPA Charles Herzfeld. Indeed, although many continue to make fun of him to this day, Al Gore was also inducted.

So clearly someone has been the lab cookin’ up that heat for the people. Far Rock’s Persia is gunnin’ for the hardest working indepedent MC title as she let loose a triple set of music treats tonight. Killer bars get laid down over the YM/MMG “Stay Schemin’” beat. P then slides in with the Slaughter boys of Shady 2.0 on their Hammer Dance. And finally Persia makes it known that she’s CLEALY aware of the current trend of signing “fair skinned” female rappers and touches on the matter on the “Murda Bizness” track. Take a listen and share with the masses.

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Get the rest of Persia’s late night deliver after the jump!

As the southern collective that is that legendary Goodie Mob get set to release a new album, Age Against the Machine later this year, they’ve given us what will be the NBA Playoff Theme song “Fight To Win”

Off her The Light of the Sun album Jill shares her joy with the people with this soulful cut. Combing the streets, her home and a few studio “guests” the video for “Blessed” is a perfect representation for this uplighting song.

For the past three years, President Obama has recognized Armenian Remembrance Day by using words such as “horrific” to describe the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire, breaking his promise to use the word “genocide.”

That does not sit well with many Armenian Americans, who say they feel betrayed.

“He has, in addition to betraying his own words and compromising America’s moral standing, gravely disappointed Armenians here in the United States, in Armenia, and around the world who had looked to him as an example of courage, conviction, and conscience,” the Armenian National Committee of America said in a statement.

Some nail polishes commonly found in salons and advertised as free of chemicals actually have high levels of agents known to cause birth defects, according to California chemical regulators.

A Department of Toxic Substances Control report released Tuesday determined that the mislabeled nail products have the potential to harm thousands of women who work in more than 48,000 nail salons in California and their customers.

Investigators chose 25 brands at random, including a number of products claiming to be free of the chemicals toluene, dibutyl phthalate (DBP) and formaldehyde, which are known as the “toxic trio.”