She looks like Rock 'n' Roll Barbie -- cascading blonde locks, cute little upturned nose, a cherry red electric guitar she calls "Pepper." Then she rips into the solo from "Beat It."
Nobody knows where the future of the music industry lies, but few would place its epicenter in Oakland. That doesn't bother Pandora.com's co-founder, Tim Westergren, whose free, customizable online music service is based in a city not known for tech startups. Westergren, 42, has spent the past nine years here in the East Bay, growing Pandora into a music-streaming colossus -- think of it as your own personal radio station -- that caters to 25 million listeners nationwide. "We want to completely redefine radio," he says.
I don't believe any of the financials being bandied about in the wake of David Beckham's extended loan deal. But I never really believed he would, or could, earn $250 million during his original five-year MLS deal, either.
Getting an exclusive broadcast interview with all four members of U2 was the easy part. Getting an advance copy of their new CD required a bit more strategizing.
Where in the world is Tom Freston? A lot of people have been asking that question ever since the day in September 2006 when Freston fell off the face of the media world.
She looks like Rock 'n' Roll Barbie -- cascading blonde locks, cute little upturned nose, a cherry red electric guitar she calls "Pepper." Then she rips into the solo from "Beat It."
Nobody knows where the future of the music industry lies, but few would place its epicenter in Oakland. That doesn't bother Pandora.com's co-founder, Tim Westergren, whose free, customizable online music service is based in a city not known for tech startups. Westergren, 42, has spent the past nine years here in the East Bay, growing Pandora into a music-streaming colossus -- think of it as your own personal radio station -- that caters to 25 million listeners nationwide. "We want to completely redefine radio," he says.
I don't believe any of the financials being bandied about in the wake of David Beckham's extended loan deal. But I never really believed he would, or could, earn $250 million during his original five-year MLS deal, either.
Getting an exclusive broadcast interview with all four members of U2 was the easy part. Getting an advance copy of their new CD required a bit more strategizing.
Where in the world is Tom Freston? A lot of people have been asking that question ever since the day in September 2006 when Freston fell off the face of the media world.
Before the iPhone or the BlackBerry Storm, there was the Treo, the original smartphone. When device maker Palm released the Treo 650 in 2004, early adopters gushed over it in much the way they now salivate over Apple's iPhone. But ask gadget heads what they think of Palm today, and the answer is likely to be, "I don't."
An audience of millions watched Cher drop a verbal bomb when she uttered the f-word on an awards show. Bono said it, too, a year later, and Nicole Richie uttered it and s--t in the same sentence.
Global activist and U2 frontman Bono attended the United Nations General Assembly in New York to push world leaders to join his ONE campaign in fighting disease, poverty, and hunger. He talked to CNN's John Roberts on "American Morning" about recent successes and what's next.
To spend time in public with Suze Orman is to see how famished Americans are for financial advice they trust - and how much they trust Suze. In the 150-foot walk from Money's offices to the elevator, Orman leaves a wake of FedEx couriers, passers-by and office workers thanking her for helping them right their money lives. "You'd have thought Bono was here," marvels one editor.
The best mutual fund manager around - a.k.a. Ken Heebner of Capital Growth Management - looks restless. He is sitting in a conference room at Goldman Sachs's Boston office, listening to a young analyst pontificate about all the trends he thinks will sweep the markets in coming years. Oil demand outpacing supply. The rapid growth of agriculture. The increased sway of sovereign wealth funds. And on and on.
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates announced a new direction Friday as he pledged $306 million in grants to develop farming in poor countries, leading the charge for corporate responsibility at a major meeting of business chiefs.
"Some of you were at Live Aid 20 years ago. Some of you weren't even born," organizer Bob Geldof told 150,000 of us assembled for the Live 8 showpiece in London's Hyde Park.
"The sun was shining ... so were the people, and so were the bands," U2's Bono said after coming off stage, one of the undoubted major stars of "The Global Jukebox," Live Aid 1985.
When not working on his day job -- lead singer of Irish rock band U2 -- Bono uses his celebrity status to fight for human rights, Third World debt relief and AIDS funding.
An Hour: Old meets new at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Royal Hospital, Military Road, Kilmainham, 353-1-612-9900). On a sylvan hill, the former Royal Hospital, built in 1684 and modeled after Le...
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