Philanthropy

Royal Opera House Chief Tony Hall Appointed to House of Lords Tony Hall, the 58-year-old chief executive of London’s Royal Opera House, has been named as a peer in the House of Lords, the U.K. parliament’s upper chamber, the House of Lords said on its Web site.

Activision’s Kotick Taps Video War Game Profits to Aid Veterans Activision Blizzard Inc., the world’s largest video-game publisher, turned the war-oriented series “Call of Duty” into a $3 billion franchise in the past six years, a best-seller with more than 55 million units sold.

Jefferies, Carnival Lead Donations for Haitian Relief: Table U.S. companies donated tens of millions of dollars to Haitian relief after the Jan. 12 earthquake that its government said left 2 million people homeless.

Neapolitan Countess Talks Up Uffizi Museum at Sotheby’s Tonight Lisa Marie Browne, executive director of Friends of the Uffizi Gallery Inc., was struggling to promote the Palm Beach, Florida, nonprofit when she found a savior in a man named Apostle.

Carlos Slim Speeds Ahead With Dazzling Art Palace by Son-in-Law For many years, Mexican telecommunications billionaire Carlos Slim lived a deliberately understated lifestyle. He toiled in a windowless, bunker-like office surrounded by leather-bound history books, colonial-era paintings, and baseball paraphernalia. His most personal luxuries in the concrete structure appeared to be Cohiba cigars and monogrammed shirts.