April 1, 2008 marks the release of her collaboration with the likes of Legendary producer Prince Paul, Chali 2na ( Jurrasic 5 ), Ursula Rucker, Scratch ( The Roots ) and Wordsworth ( eMC ) on Baby Loves Hip Hop's The Dino-5 Children's CD which is a " Book on Tape " through Ropeadope Records.

In early 2008, Rucker signed to Capitol Records Nashville as the beginning of a career in country music.

Rucker also made his Grand Ole Opry debut in July 2008.

In the summer of 2008 he founded the Cavanagh Classic, an annual celebrity basketball tournament in Rucker Park in Harlem, New York City to raise money and awareness for Nothing But Nets.

* 2008: Kristin Chenoweth, Darius Rucker, James Taylor, Charice Pempengco, Miranda Cosgrove, Miley Cyrus, David Archuleta, Shontelle, Idina Menzel, Rick Astley ( as part of a Rickroll during the parade ), Ashanti, Tony Bennett, Harry Connick Jr., Faith Hill, Beyoncé, Push Play, and The Clique Girlz

He also directed the 2008 film Gunnin ' For That # 1 Spot about eight high school basketball prospects at the Boost Mobile Elite 24 Hoops Classic at Rucker Park in Harlem, New York City.

* Rascal Flatts-November 11, 2004, with Chris Cagle, Julie Roberts and Uncle John's Band, February 3, 2006, with Blake Shelton, October 9, 2008, with Taylor Swift and February 27, 2010, with Darius Rucker

* Brad Paisley-October 13, 2005, with Sugarland and Sara Evans, February 21, 2008, with Rodney Atkins and Chuck Wicks and January 20, 2011, with Jerrod Niemann and Darius Rucker

On January 17, 2008, NYSE Euronext announced it would acquire the AMEX for $ 260 million in stock ; on October 1, 2008, NYSE Euronext completed the acquisition.

In a June 2008 issue of the journal Autoimmunity Reviews, researchers S Planque, Sudhir Paul, Ph. D, and Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Ph. D of the University Of Texas Medical School at Houston announced that they have engineered an abzyme that degrades the superantigenic region of the gp120 CD4 binding site.

On December 9, 2008, Atari announced that it had acquired Cryptic Studios, an MMORPG developer.

On 26 September 2008, the university announced its intention to return swimming to a varsity status in September 2009.

On 1 September 2008, Aston Martin announced the revival of the Lagonda marque.

In December 2008, Aston Martin announced that it would cut its 1, 850 workforce by 600.

On August 22, 2008, Aon announced that it had acquired London-based Benfield Group.

Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility, who operated AMPS networks in Canada, announced that they would observe the same timetable as outlined by the FCC in the United States, and as a result would not begin to dismantle their AMPS networks until after February 2008.

Both Bell Mobility and Telus Mobility had announced that they would observe the same shutdown guidelines as in the United States, and decommissioned their AMPS networks in 2008.

In 2008, Foundation director Inder Singh announced that deals to reduce the price of anti-malaria drugs by 30 % in developing nations.

In May 2008, the Navy announced new plans to reposition its forces throughout Brazil.

On May 7, 2008, Borland announced the sale of CodeGear division to Embarcadero Technologies for an expected $ 23 million price and $ 7 million in CodeGear accounts receivables retained by Borland.

In February 2008, the Malaysian government announced the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy plan to harvest the virgin hinterlands of Northern Borneo.

On 30 October 2008 a spokesman for the team announced that the team would complete its last three performances of the year with five jets instead of six.

On May 11, 2008 Sudan announced it was cutting diplomatic relations with Chad, claiming that it was helping rebels in Darfur to attack the Sudanese capital Khartoum.

In a letter dated 18 February 2008, Castro announced that he would not accept the positions of president and commander in chief at the 24 February 2008 National Assembly meetings, saying " I will not aspire nor accept — I repeat I will not aspire or accept — the post of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief.

The UK's National Health Service announced in 2008 that more therapists would be trained to provide CBT at government expense as part of an initiative called Improving Access to Psychological Therapies ( IAPT ).

In 2007, he announced he would release his autobiography, planned for March 2008, published by Hodder Headline and titled On the Rocks, which would cover the recent incidents in his life.

On 13 November 2008, Cessna announced that a total of 665 jobs would be cut at its Wichita and Bend, Oregon plants starting in January 2009.

In May 2008, the NLCC and The JAM Brands announced a partnership to produce The U. S. Finals-Final Destination.

On July 11, 2007, PBS announced that it had greenlit an animated adaptation of Car Talk, to air on prime-time in 2008.

It was announced on 31 December 2007 as a policy to be implemented by the Rudd ALP government, and initial tests in Tasmania have produced a 2008 report.

In March 2008 TfL announced that it had reached agreement to buy TCL for £ 98m.

AOL released an all-new AIM for the Macintosh on September 29, 2008 and the final build on December 15, 2008.

AOL stopped development of Netscape Navigator on December 28, 2007, but continued supporting the web browser with security updates until March 1, 2008.

Under AOL, Netscape's browser development continued until December 2007, when Tom Drapeau, director of AOL's Netscape Brand, announced that the company would stop supporting Netscape software products as of March 1, 2008.

On March 5, 2008, AOL released portions of the OSCAR protocol documentation.

In 2008, AOL named Piper the third greatest witch in television history, behind Samantha Stevens and Willow Rosenberg.

In 2008, AOL named Phoebe the seventh greatest witch in television history.

In 2008, AOL named Paige the 13th greatest witch in television history.

In 2008, AOL named Prue the 10th greatest witch in television history.

In September 2008, AOL redesigned the SHOUTcast website, which had been roughly the same since 2000.

On April 30, 2008, CBS Radio and AOL entered a partnership ( following the dissolution of partnership between AOL and XM Satellite Radio due to the change in Internet royalty rates ).

AOL Radio has since moved to a non-streaming " beamcast " approach to music listening as of late Summer 2008.

Episodes 78-163 were once available at AOL, but removed sometime in spring 2008.

However, on December 28, 2007, Netscape developers announced that AOL would discontinue the web browser on February 1, 2008.