I can see why world leaders would meet with a person like Bono while there would be others who would be on the other side of the love-hate relationship and utterly oppose a guy like him. As for me, all I can see (without ...READ»
U2 has worked for decades on various humanitarian efforts, but up until now the band has mostly overlooked potential environmental projects. Not anymore--the tireless Irish foursome is raising money for the Dora-1 geothermal plant ...READ»
Blackberry, for all its success, suffers from one core problem: It's the boring corporate suit at the funky smartphone office party. Now two bits of news have popped up to suggest that RIM is trying to inject a bit of hipster design ...READ»
There have been a couple of examples recently of people and companies launching marketing initiatives with the best of intentions -- only to have their efforts stumble and struggle because of an unconsidered extra element. Case in ...READ»
Augmented reality is reaching the public consciousness--proof, in case you need it, is that John Mayer is promoting his new song with an AR app. And while we're talking web tech, U2's going to stream a concert live on YouTube this weekend.READ»
Plenty of people have already written eulogies for the compact disc now that iTunes is the number one U.S. music retailer, and CD sales are in a death spiral. But U2 is making an excellent case for old-fashioned physical, ...READ»
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A jobseeking friend invited me to join her at a Women for Hire Career Fair at the Sheraton New ...READ»
"Can't get that brand out of my head..." Have you heard that song? We all have. Well, maybe not that exact melody, but some memorable sound effect, cool tune, or catchy jingle. And I'll bet there was a direct connection to some brand ...READ»
My customer evangelist radar can always detect a not-waving-drowning plea for help between syllables. The unglamorous fact of fundraising life -- unless you're Lance, Haiti+CNN, or Obama on his home run -- is actually raising the funds.READ»
Coldplay is the king of downloads. According to Neilsen, the band has become the first to sell over one million digital albums in the U.S., and over two million worldwide. It may be surprising that this hasn't happened before, but it ...READ»
A while back, my intrepid colleague Keith Hammonds described his attempts to get U2's globe-trotting front man and philanthropic crusader to talk about Third World poverty in our annual social capitalist issue. Bono didn't return the ...READ»
Hot new code, three-way Chrome browser action, and tunes by indie rock darlings--it's everything a geek could want (short of a girlfriend). UPDATE: Arcade fire's feats win the Grand Prix at Cannes Lions!READ»
Well, good for Bono. His band, U2, has a new album out--and even though it got ripped off and distributed illegally on the Web two weeks before release, it looks like it will do just fine. As will the hot new, $349 U2 Apple iPod ...READ»
What a tangled web is being weaved by the troubled musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. The record-breaking $50 million Broadway show has a new opening date. Let's hope investors don't have to issue millions of dollars in refunds again.READ»
Palm's safely in HP's hands now, but for several years it's been financially boosted by U2 frontman Bono's company Elevation Partners. With their involvement wrapped up, the rocker's financial experiment fared okay, but just okay ...READ»
In another ambitious scheme to repair the music industry and discourage illegal downloading, Virgin Media inked a deal with Universal Music to offer an unlimited-download subscription service to customers in the U.K. by year's end. ...READ»
Who is more influential? More popular? Is there even a difference? These are the questions that social media monitoring firm Vocus aims to answer in a new white paper, which tries to define the qualities of an influencer. READ»
Peter Jackson's currently trialing some hot-topic tech that may bring a whole new dimension to his remake of the historic Dambusters movie: 3-D filming. He's shooting test footage in New Zealand to see how feasible it is right now. ...READ»
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