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FORBES News, Apr 13, 2012


Forbes Appoints Global Licensing Agent
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, Apr 11, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Forbes Media LLC today announced that it has appointed Leveraged Marketing Corporation of America (LMCA) as its trademark licensing representative. The agreement with LMCA supports Forbes' growing global ...
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Middle Eastern Billionaires and Family Ties
Forbes
The recently released Forbes Insights study Global Wealth and Family Ties: A Worldwide Study of How Fortunes Are Founded, Managed and Passed On examined the fortunes of 1253 ultra high net worth individuals, as determined by the 2011 Forbes...
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Restaurants, Beware: Hackers Want Your Customer Data
Forbes
We recently published the Trustwave 2012 Global Security Report and revealed trends, attack methods and findings from the hundreds of investigations we performed of data breaches at organizations around the world. We found that nearly 90 percent of ...
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Lujiazui Breakfast: News And Views About China Stocks -- April 11
Forbes
The fifth decline in five trading days in major US stock indices amid worried aboutglobal economic growth leave Chinese shares mixed today. Auto stocks may rise as investors hope mixed news about the world's largest vehicle market marks the worst ...
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Could You Work for Jeff Bezos?
Forbes
Its global workforce now exceeds 50000 employees — and jobs are open in 53 departments, including account management and website production. Before you start imagining yourself on Team Bezos, however, take this diagnostic quiz.
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Sephora's Smart Social and Digital Makeover
Forbes
Sephora, the global beauty chain owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton which operates more than 1600 locations worldwide, just gave itself a strategy makeover. The retailer is taking its US digital operations to the next level with social and ...
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Visiting Shanghai, SABIC CEO Sees Easing China Growth As A Good Thing
Forbes
SABIC's total sales last year reached $50 billion; the company is a member Forbes Global 2000 List. Besides putting SABIC closer than ever to Chinese customers, the new Shanghai technology center will help the Saudi company attract top global talent ...
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Are Big Banks in Big Trouble?
Forbes
The focus intensified in late March when ratings agency Moody's said that it will decide in mid May whether to lower the credit ratings of 17 global financial companies. A credit downgrade could have a serious impact on future earnings, ...
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Feds Say Fugitive Day Trader Ran Ponzi Scheme On Gay Community
Forbes
For now, at least, it's not about Goldman Sachs or MF Global — and it's not a finger pointing at the likes of Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, or UBS. This is a relatively small-time scam that spread by word-of-mouth among Florida's gay ...
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EPAM Big Data Competency Center and 10gen Partner to Bring MongoDB to Mission ...
Reuters
... engineering for leading global software and technology vendors, as well as development, testing, maintenance, and support of mission critical business applications and vertically oriented IT consulting services for Forbes Global 2000 corporations.
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International Bancshares Corporation Named One of America's Most Trustworthy ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The list was prepared for Forbes.com by GovernanceMetrics International (GMI), a leading independent provider of global corporate governance and accounting risk ratings and research on public companies, and ranks the nation's top 100 companies that ...
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Best Ways To Stop Bullying, Combat Child Sex Trade And End Homelessness? Ask A ...
Forbes
Girls are joining together, shaking things up and creating a global force of positive change. It's a GirlQuake. The platform can be the kitchen table or the Today Show. Size doesn't matter. Because my mission is to amplify the voices of girls and women ...
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Amid signs of deepening global slump
World Socialist Web Site
The plan reportedly calls for cutting 5000 jobs through the sell-off of the firm's chemical division, with the remaining 5000 job cuts distributed across Sony's global operations.Forbes magazine ranks Sony 75th in global sales.
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Marching to the Customers' Drum Beat. Creating A Social Business at SAP
Forbes
With those reservations in mind, here is what Mark has to say (with support from co-worker Todd Wilms, also a blogger here at Forbes). His comments on changing employee attitudes to customers and developing pull-marketing are pretty valuable to any ...
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Infosys Under Investigation For Visa Fraud
Forbes
Late last year, Tata Consultancy's local president Surya Kant said in aForbes interview that the company was struggling to hire computer engineers. American engineers lacked some of the necessary experience. While Kant did not say TCS was bringing in ...
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Cognizant Selects Savvis' Cloud Infrastructure Service to Offer Enhanced ...
MarketWatch (press release)
LOUIS, April 11, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Savvis, a CenturyLink company (NYSE:CTL) and global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises, today announced that Cognizant, a leading provider of information technology, ...
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The Iranian Threat and Why the US Needs to Build a Comprehensive System of ...
Forbes
Moreover, the regime's belligerence has global reach; it targeted Jewish institutions in Argentina in the early 1990s, killing and maiming hundreds, is alleged to have plotted the assassination of the Saudi Ambassador to the US in Washington DC last ...
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Global Strategy Connections Ltd reaches agreement to represent/collaborate ...
Albany Times Union
Global Strategy Connections Ltd a company intent on guiding individuals and companies toward methods of saving money, making more money and becoming more efficient, has made a double header, reaching an agreement to represent and work in collaboration ...
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Shares In Fu Kwan's Macrolink Real Estate Rise After Earnings Report
Forbes
Fu,a vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Industries, noted at the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Malaysia last year that smaller Chinese companies were struggling with inflation, tight credit and the appreciation of the country's currency.
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Preparing for China's economic slowdown
Zimbabwe Independent
IN July 2008, Forbes magazine carried an article headlined “Africa — The last investment frontier”. With a rate of return on foreign investment higher than in any other region, Africa has eventually managed to shrug off the tag of a hopeless continent ...
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Forbes: America's foundation holds her steady
Richmond Times Dispatch
When Americans see government leaders spending away our future, increasing its involvement in individual pocketbooks, regulating businesses or hindering globalcompetition, they know a pillar is being weakened. Our nation was built on the premise that ...
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Mario Gabelli Top Buys: Undervalued Opportunities
Seeking Alpha
Mr. Gabelli set up the company as a broker dealer and now ranks as #346 on the list of wealthiest Americans in Forbes magazine´s 2006 Forbes 400 rankings, which estimated his net worth at $1 billion as of 2011. Mr. Gabelli is a chartered financial ...
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More than 100 Companies to Present at Global Hunter Securities' 2012 GHS 100 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW ORLEANS, Apr 11, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Global Hunter Securities, LLC (GHS) today announced that its 2012 GHS 100 Energy Conference will feature more than 100 presenting companies from across the energy industry. Ranging in market caps from under ...
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Yani Tseng: The best golfer you've never heard of
GlobalPost
According to Forbes, Tseng didn't even crack the Top 10 of the world's highest paid female athletes in 2011. That distinction went to tennis player, fashionista, pinup girl and world No.7 Maria Sharapova, who raked in $25 million for the year.
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Marketo Summit 2012 Draws Record Number of Customers and Partners
MarketWatch (press release)
The Marketo Global User Summit agenda features four distinct tracks: Improve, Lead, Reach and Execute, designed to deliver relevant insights to each of the varying roles within Marketo's growing community of customers and partners.
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Patterson Companies Named To Forbes Most Trustworthy Companies
Dentistry Today
Patterson Companies, Inc. was recently named one of America's 100 Most Trustworthy Companies by Forbes. Patterson provides supplies, equipment, technology and services to the dental, veterinary and rehabilitation supply markets through its Patterson...
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Is That An Anti-Facebook Groundswell Out There?
Forbes
Despite their size and reputation, and knowing they had a strong global strategy, Nokia could not talk or buy its way out. The online information ecosystem gives extraordinary power to a relatively small group of commentators. It might be different now ...
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NIC Inc. CEO Recognized for Entrepreneurial Efforts
MarketWatch (press release)
During his time as CEO, NIC has been named for three consecutive years to Forbes list of the “100 Best Small Companies in America,” ranking 20th on the list in 2011. “My entire life I've been driven to persevere, take risks, and find innovative ways to ...
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Misunderstandings, Misconceptions and Distortions About Global Warming
PoliticusUSA
Online Forbes magazine for instance reports that while 89% of meteorologist surveyed recently believe there is, indeed, global warming, only 59% believe man is the primary cause and a mere 30% have a worry in the world about it's consequences.
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Genzyme Expands Storage in Northborough
Patch.com
By Charlene Arsenault Laurent Boer, vice president Global Distribution & Logistics and general manager at Northborough Genzyme and Michael Pippos, manager of health & safety. The Board of Selectmen gave the Genzyme Corporation, located at 11 ForbesRd.
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Chris Dodd 'Confident' Obama Administration Working On Next SOPA
Forbes
“Content theft is a global problem, and we must have a global commitment to solving it,” Dodd said recently during a film-industry conference in Mumbai. India's film industry is a multi-billion dollar industry now, and Dodd argued that content theft ...
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How Rituraj Sinha Is Changing The Security Company His Father Founded
Forbes India
Rituraj, who had joined the family business in 2002, was looking for aglobal footprint. “I wanted presence in a mature market to balance our portfolio. The high growing and dynamic Indian security market would complement a stable and predictable ...
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Forbes India
Snakes, Leopards, Dogs on the Menu in Zimbabwe
Minyanville.com
The company also opened its 42nd bottling plant in the country last month, according toForbes. Well, while Coke works to break into China's home market, competition for Chinese consumers abroad has been heating up. In Zimbabwe, for example, ...
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Forbes Appoints Global Licensing Agent - Yahoo! Finance
From Yahoo! Finance: Forbes Media LLC today announced that it has appointed Leveraged Marketing Corporation of America as its trademark licensing ...
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