THIS IS GREAT.

[VADO] SIGNS TO [INTERSCOPE] RECORDS

[ Cam'ron's U.N. protégé follows The Diplomats and signs a solo deal with Interscope. ]

[MADE IN USA] BOOSTS SMALL BUSINESS

[ With the spring season looming, Dartmouth College men's head rugby coach Alex Magleby didn't want to risk waiting the roughly eight weeks his two suppliers typically took to get jerseys, shorts, and jackets from their workshops in Asia.

So in February he turned to Boathouse Sports, a Philadelphia manufacturer that promised to provide similar gear in four weeks at about the same price. "We found that Boathouse delivered the quickest, hands down," says Magleby. Boathouse and other small U.S. clothing manufacturers that bucked the offshoring trend are catching a tailwind as rising costs for labor and transportation make Asia more expensive. ]

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[AT&T] ACQUIRES [T-MOBILE] USA

[AT&T announced on Sunday that it agreed to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom, in a $39 billion deal that will reshape the cellular telephone industry. The merger — one of the largest since the onset of the financial crisis — would combine the second and fourth largest cellular carriers in the nation, bringing together AT&T’s 95.5 million wireless subscribers with T-Mobile’s 33.7 million customers.]

YOUNG MILLIONAIRE MOGUL [JONATHAN KOON]

[Wearing red Hermès sneakers, a gray smoking jacket-cardigan hybrid of his own design, and five pounds of pure gold draped around his neck, Jonathan Koon walks around his Midtown Manhattan showroom inspecting his new line of high-end denim.]