Bono's U.S.-based anti-poverty groups to merge
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Anti-poverty groups the ONE Campaign and DATA, both co-founded by rock star Bono, will merge in the United States to form a single organization in tackling poverty, especially in Africa, officials said on Monday.
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Universal Music, the world's largest  music company, is teaming up with advertising conglomerate WPP  Group to link bands and brands.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - A new song and a cover of Scottish punk band the Skids' "The Saints Are Coming" with Green Day will be found on a U2 compilation due November 21.
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An international team sponsored by the U.N. proposed a detailed, ambitious plan to halve extreme poverty by 2015.
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Business & money: Over-50s travel and insurance group to merge with AA after ditching stock market flotation.
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An art auction conceived by U2 frontman and campaigner Bono together with British artist Damien Hirst raised 42.5 million dollars in New York late Thursday for UN-backed health programs in Africa.
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Microsoft&#160;has joined with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other development organizations to attack AIDS and other humanitarian problems worldwide, the company announced Monday.Microsoft will offer a wide variety of assistance to USAID as well as the U.S President&#39;s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Millennium Challenge Corporation, two other humanitarian aid organizations, Microsoft said.The assistance could include technology consulting and software development support for agencies on the ground in developing nations and other types of help, said Frank McCosker, Microsoft&#39;s senior director of global strategic accounts.Microsoft has worked in an ad hoc basis with USAID in the past, but this 5-year partnership will give the aid organizations a &quot;faster pipeline&quot; to Microsoft resources, said Corey Griffin, Microsoft&#39;s director of international development. The memorandum of understanding announced Monday pulls together Microsoft and the three development organizations in a more comprehensive approach that in the past, he said.The company plans to work with the aid organizations on a variety of projects, including AIDS, other health problems, education, and economic growth, Microsoft said. The company is looking at creating so-called &quot;innovation centers&quot; in developing nations, where users can learn to create jobs in their countries, Griffin said.Microsoft will also work on disaster response and environmental sustainability, the company said.&quot;In this age of increasing interconnectedness, this global collaboration with Microsoft will help to mobilize ideas and resources, skills and technologies to spur innovation and deliver results far more efficiently and effectively than ever before,&quot; Henrietta Fore, acting administrator of USAID, said in a statement.The first project under this memorandum of understanding will be an alliance between Microsoft, USAID and Indonesia Entrepreneurship And Agribusiness Development Activity. The alliance partners will sponsor a national business innovation competition and awards program focused on improving innovation and IT competitiveness in Indonesia.The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the charitable organization set up by Microsoft&#39;s founder and his wife, has long given money to programs targeted at improving health and education around the world. But other than inspiration, Microsoft gets no marching orders from the foundation to work on health and education programs, McCosker said.The deal is a commercial one, he said. &quot;It&#39;s about getting access to the next 5 billion users,&quot; he added.Microsoft plans to announce more projects in the partnership in the next six weeks.
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U.S. aid should focus more on reducing poverty in the poorest countries instead of being driven primarily by security concerns, a coalition of U.S.-based charities said on Thursday.
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The job cuts come as part of A.I.G.âs move to combine units with the newly acquired 21st Century Insurance Group.
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Almost a quarter of a century since Irish band U2 bounced onto the music scene, the group on Monday releases its latest album, and it looks like Bono and crew are going back to their roots.
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As the guest editor of the July issue of Vanity Fair, Bono will try to rebrand Africa.
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Two of the three largest luxury vacation clubs agree to merge.
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Europe&#39;s biggest dairy company, Arla Foods amba, will merge with Netherlands-based Campina, the companies said Wednesday, a move that will help them prepare for anticipated price drops in milk.
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The New York Stock Exchange and NASD announced plans to merge their regulatory organizations and eliminate duplicative and inconsistent rules.
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Twenty years on, the charity hit &quot;Do They Know It's Christmas&quot; gets back on the airwaves, with U2 frontman Bono leading a pack of fresh-faced British rockers on the same quest to raise funds for Africa.
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U2 lead singer Bono is taking time off  from preparing for the release of his band's new album to  remind Republicans about AIDS in Africa.
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NASD and NYSE Group Inc.  agreed to merge their self-regulatory operations into a single watchdog to oversee all securities firms doing business with the public in the United States, the two groups said on Tuesday.