Samsung’s pact with Jay-Z, however, came together in less than a month, and was brokered directly by Samsung chief marketing officer Todd Pendleton, Roc Nation’s Jay Brown and John Meneilly ...

New York-born Jay-Z has been busy -- dropping an album a year and heading up Roc-a-Fella Records, the label he started with producer Damon Dash. In the last two years, his albums "The Blueprint ...