BET
Kanye West and Rihanna up for BET Awards
Kanye West and Rihanna are amongst those nominated at the forthcoming Black Entertainment Television Awards. The BET Awards, now in their eighth year, are held to celebrate black achievement in music, sport and the arts.
CBS
CBS News Inks New Deal With Bob Schieffer
Bob Schieffer and CBS News are entering into a new long-term agreement. The network's chief
CW NETWORK
The CW, stemming from the merge of UPN and The WB, could be canceled in the coming months, according to the Wall Street Journal. The network has struggled for two years with diminishing ratings. Even with hyped shows like Gossip Girl and many others, the network has seen a dramatic drop in its ratings.
FOX
News Corp: Media Need New Business Models
The answer to digital piracy isn't simply fighting it -- find new business models or prepare to die, warns News Corp. boss Peter Chernin. "To the degree we're only trying to protect existing business, we're toast. All we're doing there is staving off the inevitable. We'll be dinosaurs."
MTV
MTV Sneak Peek Week Invades LA for Film Screenings
The 2008 MTV Movie Awards Sneak Peek Week is invading
UNIVISION
Univision Communications, beginning January 2009, will offer more than 1,000 hours of video on demand that will include sports, news, movies and entertainment previously televised on its two broadcast networks, Univision and TeleFutura, and its cable network, Galavision.
VIACOM
Eddie Griffin Inks Deal for VH1 Reality Series
VH1 has given an eight-episode order to a "celebreality" series starring actor Eddie Griffin, tentatively titled "Eddie Griffin Going for Broke." The series chronicles the comedian's life and how he juggles being both a player and a family man.
AFRICA
New 5-Nation Project for Homes Affected By HIV/Aids
In hardest hit communities, older people care for over half of orphans and vulnerable children and up to 40 per cent of people living with HIV/AIDS. The new project aims at addressing the impact of this new family dynamic and mitigating the spread of the pandemic.
Sierra Leone: HIV/Aids Global Week of Action Starts
The week holds leaders accountable on their landmark commitment to fight the disease and the slogan for this year is 'one week one voice. Is the world doing enough to stop AIDS?' This week of action is to call on the world to honour its ambitious promise to stop the needless death of women, men and children.
SWAZILAND: Tackling low condom use dramatically
Why are condoms so unpopular? This question has baffled and discouraged health experts for a decade, but in Swaziland the mystery of why men and women refuse to use condoms is slowly being unraveled by a project that is getting Swazi men to open up about their condom use, or lack thereof.
ASIA
Rivalry in Japanese social networking sites heats up
MySpace launched new services in
US opens new HIV/AIDS program office in Hanoi
The U.S. Department of Defense has opened its first
CARIBBEAN & LATIN AMERICA
European, Latin American and Caribbean Leaders Tackle Issues
A commitment to the eradication of poverty, inequality and exclusion and the promotion of bi-regional cooperation on climate change were the principal outcomes of the Fifth European Union/Latin American Caribbean (LAC)
Jamaica Aids Support offers sex education to commuters
PUBLIC commuters in
Latin American Countries Launch Programs To Improve Health Care
Several Latin American countries have launched new programs to improve health care for sexual minorities, including homosexuals and transsexuals, according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). The programs focus on reducing stigma and discrimination against sexual minorities and are part of larger efforts to boost HIV prevention and treatment.
EUROPE
London's Guardian Profiles HIV/AIDS Advocate, Author Pisani
ADVERTISING NEWS
ESPN Eyes Multiplatform Ads For Growth
About 60% of ESPN's advertising deals now includes more than one platform, according to top sales exec Sean Bratches. "That's not forced, either." ESPN's endless hours of highlights, interviews and other video snippets are seen as ideally suited to the online and mobile worlds.
Google Adding Display Ads to Image Search
Google is beginning an "experiment" that incorporates graphical ads with image search results. The Internet giant declines to comment on the revenue implications of the move. Also: Google execs are convening to discuss the implications of a possible revived deal between Yahoo and Microsoft.
Microsoft: We're On Track To Become Ad Giant
When Microsoft execs gather with advertisers and publishers at the software giant's annual advertising summit this week, they will be asked to explain how the company plans to move forward without Yahoo. Even if Microsoft goes on to acquire a piece of Yahoo, as the rumor goes, it will still have to explain what senior management meant when they said the company's near-term growth strategy is to grow organically, rather than to acquire any third parties.
HIV/AIDS AND SEXUAL HEALTH NEWS
Contraception Can Save Lives in Humanitarian Emergencies
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Ex-surgeon general: Condoms, not promises, help teens
Former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders on Monday said condoms are more likely to protect teens against sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy than vows of abstinence.
International HIV/AIDS Alliance Broadens Its Remit
The International HIV/AIDS Alliance has reflected its growing commitment to linking sexual and reproductive health with HIV and human rights by changing its charity objects. "Promoting human rights, integrating sexual health and HIV and working to eliminate stigma and discrimination enable comprehensive HIV responses and reduce barriers to HIV services,” explained Alliance Executive Director Alvaro Bermejo.
Study challenges myths of teen sex
A new analysis of the sexual practices of 2,271 15- to 19-year-olds challenges the widespread perception that today's teens are substituting oral sex for intercourse to preserve their virginity. And the study, by the Guttmacher Institute, a non-profit that studies reproductive and sexual health, found that two-thirds of virgins who had oral sex had one partner.
MOBILE NEWS
As Microsoft and Yahoo continue to discuss an unspecified relationship, Forbes.com's Brian Caulfield makes the case that uniting in the battle for control of the mobile phone could be every bit as important as a search combination to the two companies, who face fierce competition from Google on both fronts. In the mobile market, Microsoft has negotiated with handset makers to get Windows Mobile on their phones, while Yahoo has done an even better job negotiating with the carriers to get exclusive placement for its mobile applications on their networks.
Motorola: Young Adults Influence Key Tech Decisions
A study of 16- to-27-year-olds, which the technology company calls "Millennials," found that three-quarters of young adults influence their parents' technology purchases--a 71% sway over cable, DSL and dish-satellite services and 62% impact buying a HDTV set and TV programming packages. In addition, 70% say their expectations are far greater than their parents' when it comes to better media experiences and mobile broadband access.
Opera: Social networking dominates Indian mobile web
The report titled 'State of the Mobile Web' says of all the mobile web users in
MULTI CULTURAL NEWS
Caribbean nationals push for own category in US census
Caribbean nationals in the United States who are pushing to be included as a separate category in that country's census count are about to launch 'CaribID 2010', a campaign to urge the government to allow them to be counted as the 17th group on the census form in 2010.
PHILANTHROPY
Q&A: Gates Foundation CEO On Switch From Software to Charity
In an interview Monday with The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Raikes, 49, discussed the philanthropy's famous founders and his thoughts on making the switch from software to charity. Below are some excerpts from the interview.
SOCIAL MEDIA NEWS
Catch of the day: HarperCollins gets into social networking
Publishing joins the web 2.0 revolution - new authors will soon be able to upload their manuscripts for perusal online.
Corporations Tap Social Networking Sites for Innovation
Brightidea.com, the leading provider of Innovation Management software products, today announced the availability of WebStorm 5.0, which enables businesses to create turn-key social networks to collaborate with customers, employees or partners. Developed to address the innovation challenges that managers face every day, WebStorm is easy to implement, highly-scalable and designed to help organizations tap the innovation potential of any online community, either internal or external.
Facebook Declines Comment on Sale Talk
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is stressing his company's independent spirit, after a report the social-networking site might be sold to Microsoft. We're "focusing on building," he says. Asked specifically about the prospect of a sale, Zuckerberg declines to comment.
Facebook Gears Up For Facelift
The social network site Facebook is getting ready for the first major makeover in its short history. Designers are planning some widespread changes to the way the core profile page is organised, aimed at making it "simpler, cleaner and more relevant".
Women 'hold down the fort' of social networking
A new study by Rapleaf has found that the future of social media will be all about women. Women are at the forefront of social media, the report found. It advised anyone creating new Web 2.0 sites to make sure they aim them at females.
OTHER NEWS
Digital Savvy Consumers Presage Behaviors Across the Country
According to a new analysis from Scarborough Research, six percent of all consumers are classified as Digital Savvy nationally, but Austin (TX) adults are almost twice as likely as the national average to be in this leading edge consumer segment.
Google Health Data-Record Service Opens
Google is announcing the public launch of Google Health, a service that allows users to import records from a variety of health-care providers and pharmacies. The Internet giant has been testing the service by storing medical records for thousands of patient volunteers.
Hearst Cuts Jobs, Eyes Multimedia Future
Hearst's
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