CBS
CBS Partners Biz Site with SeekingAlpha
CBS Interactive is entering a deal between its BNET.com business resource site and SeekingAlpha.com, a business site known for providing news, earnings reports and conference-call transcripts. Seeking Alpha and BNET will share and link to each other's content.
FOX
Murdoch: U.S. Is In for a 'Hard Time'
News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch says the United States has no option but to spend $700 billion to salvage the battered U.S. financial system, though he is opposed to the bailout in principle. "If they can get this thing through and hurry up about it, I think we'll be OK. But we're in for a hard time."
MySpace Music Set to Challenge Apple
News Corp.'s MySpace is launching its new online music service, aiming to loosen Apple's grip on the U.S. music industry and challenge all other online rivals. MySpace says that EMI is now part of the joint venture that already includes the other three top recording companies.
MTV
Avon and MTV Executives Honored by Women’s Venture Fund
“This year we are honoring two women who have reached the pinnacle of their careers,” said Maria Otero, founder and president of the Women’s Venture Fund. She said Leslie Leventman, executive vice
president, creative services, special events and convention planning with MTV; and Kim Azzarelli vice president of legal and public affairs and
corporate secretary with
NEWS: MTV Signs Up “From Gs To Gents” For Second Season
Fonzworth Bentley will stay on as the show’s host, leading an entirely new cast of bad boys aspiring to become well-groomed professionals and winning the grand prize of $100,000. The upcoming season will also place Bentley behind the scenes as a member of the production team.
Stars of MTV's The Hills Join Taco Bell(R) for a "Reality Check
In an effort to raise awareness of global hunger, Taco Bell is again joining forces with Speidi--Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt of MTV's hit reality show The Hills. The couple will host the World Hunger "Reality Check Challenge" event for the second straight year.
VIACOM
AT&T, Microsoft, NBC Form Anti-Piracy Supergroup
AT&T, Microsoft, Cisco, Viacom, and NBC Universal have joined forces to create a new lobbying coalition named "Arts & Labs," tasked with taking aim at piracy.
AFRICA
Display HIV/AIDS posters in public places
A youth leader has appealed to operators of chop and drinking bars to display HIV/AIDS posters and other educational materials in their premises to help curb the spread of the virus.
Mr. Eric Pinaman Asare, President of Universal United Youth Organisation (UUY), a non-governmental organisation, said this at a two-day HIV/AIDS awareness workshop for some youth groups at Akim Oda on Wednesday.
Sixty million condoms distributed in two years
The government and Population Services International (PSI) have distributed nearly 60 million condoms in the country in the last two years as the fight against HIV/AIDS intensifies.
Soles4Souls(TM) Inc., the international charity dedicated to providing free footwear to those in desperate need, routinely responds to requests for help from victims of natural disasters around the world, such as the recent hurricanes in the U.S. Gulf Coast. Another key component of the charity's mission is to give assistance to people living in abject poverty, such as Sub-Saharan Africa.
ASIA
Freedom HIV/AIDS: Awareness Campaign Goes Wireless Through Mobile Technology
An Indian software solution provider, ZMQ Software Systems, had recently taken the initiative to raise awareness on HIV/AIDS across
Grants offered for women's projects
Constance Thomas, chairman of the UN China Theme Group on Gender (UNTGG), said earlier this month: "The latest call, while still focusing on broader areas including women's rights and their empowerment, will also aim to address new developments in China including considering gender in the rebuilding and reconstruction efforts of the Sichuan earthquake."
CARIBBEAN & LATIN AMERICA
BELIZE COUNCIL OF CHURCHES MEETS TO DISCUSS HIV/AIDS
The Council of Churches in its work trying to respond to the needs of the wider community recognizes that HIV is still a taboo subject within the context of the Christian Church and it is wreaking havoc up on the wider Belizean Society
The analysis found that NTDs are the most common infections of approximately 200 million of the poorest people in the region. They include tens of millions of cases of intestinal worm infections, and almost 10 million cases of Chagas disease, as well as schistosomiasis, trachoma, dengue fever, leishmaniasis, lymphatic
filariasis (LF), and onchocerciasis.
Companies shun HIV/AIDS meeting
Representatives from only six of 25 companies showed up for a breakfast meeting Friday to explore HIV/AIDS risk reduction among employees and non-discrimination to those living with the disease in the workplace. "This is why I am so disappointed at this morning's turnout because I know from experience that some managers believe HIV is not their problem," he said.
ADVERTISING NEWS
Report: U.S. Ad Spending Is Plummeting
U.S. advertising spending fell 3.7% in the second quarter from a year earlier, the biggest decline since 2001, says market researcher TNS Media Intelligence. Ad expenditures "started to contract in March, well before the September turbulence on Wall Street."
Yahoo Launches Ad Platform, Hires Bain
Yahoo is rolling out a new digital advertising platform, called APT, which promises to offer "cross-selling more easily than ever been before." Also: Yahoo is hiring Bain & Co. to perform an efficiency audit, as the Internet company aims to "benefit greatly from more discipline."
HIV/AIDS AND SEXUAL HEALTH NEWS
DC Aims to Publicize City's HIV-AIDS Epidemic
The District will embark on a large-scale "social marketing" campaign to publicize the facts of its staggering HIV-AIDS epidemic and the plans to help curb it, D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) said today.
Engagement 2.0: Is condom-free sex a sign of commitment?
Pendarvis Harshaw, a teen who grew up in
New Strain of Sexually Transmitted Disease is Discovered in Scotland
Health Protection Scotland has highlighted the case of the new variant Chlamydia trachomatis (nvCT) strain, identified in a patient attending a sexual health service in
SF: HEALTH OFFICIALS LAUNCH WEB SITE TO MAKE STD TESTING MORE CONVENIENT
Teens choosing not to use condoms, Alpert study finds
The research, published in the September/October issue of Public Health Reports, showed that teens who engage in unprotected sexual activity tend to believe that condoms reduce sexual pleasure. They also show a disinclination to talk about protection with their partners, researchers found.
MULTI CULTURAL NEWS
Black Culture Foundation To Honor Eight Local Heroes
Each award recognizes the recipient has given significant service to the local Black community.
Massive Latino voter registration drive launched
A coalition of Spanish-language media and community organizations kicked off a massive voter registration drive Thursday aimed at putting nearly one million voter registration forms in the hands of potential Hispanic voters.
Pharmacy Students Working Toward “Closing the Gap”
The Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA), the Latino Association of Pharmacy Students (LAPS), and the Pilipinos of UCSF Student Organization (PUSO), three UCSF campus organizations, joined forces on Sunday afternoon to inform first-year Pharmacy students about “Closing the Gap: The Student Pharmacist Role as Advocates to the Underserved”.
PHILANTHROPY
How Is Financial Crisis Affecting Philanthropy?
What I am hearing is that the economic crisis -- or at least fear of it -- is affecting funding and in some cases significantly. But here's the hitch: Almost every conversation I have had except one was about how the funders are afraid that the economy is getting worse and that is why they are cutting back. Only once was I told that the an organization's primary funder had cut back because of necessity from actual financial difficulties. So it appears that fear that the economy is turning down is causing many funders to cut back.
So far, I don't think that anybody has convincingly demonstrated that's the case. It might be true, but for-profit philanthropies have very little in the way of a track record, and the track record they do have is not particularly good. Maybe that will change, in the future. But for the time being, I'd keep the idea of for-profit philanthropy in the "not proven" category.
Star power meets philanthropy with celeb charities
You have to care about something other than what's going to make you money," said Morris L. Reid, managing director of Westin Rinehart, a firm that does brand strategy for public figures. "You have to be charitable. It shows that you care about someone other than yourself. It also shows that you are in touch with the average American's needs and plights."
SOCIAL MEDIA NEWS
Twitter Helps Speed Up News Dissemination
The State of
OTHER NEWS
AOL Launches New Lifestyle and Pop Culture Sites
AOL announced the launch of two new specialty sites, Lemondrop, http://lemondrop.com, which covers women's lifestyle, and PopEater, http://popeater.com, which focuses on pop culture. The new sites continue AOL's efforts to launch experiences targeted at specific audiences. Both sites provide consumers a forum to interact and engage in a fun and entertaining format about lifestyle and pop culture features.
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Pressure Mounts For Controlling Food Marketing To Kids
Dannon, which declined to join the Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative when it was launched in 2006, has become the 15th company to sign the agreement pledging that all of its advertising directed primarily to children will be for products that meet nutritional guidelines that the Council of Better Business Bureaus has reviewed and approved.
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