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FORBES News, May 04, 2012

Dear GE: You Can Do Better!
Forbes
According to Forbes, GE was recognized as the top company in the globalHay Group survey for the third year in a row because of the way we develop leaders and promote innovation. “Respectfully, these blogs about GE seem based on outdated perceptions or ...
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iShares S and P Global Technology Sector Index Fund Experiences Big Outflow
Forbes
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares S&PGlobal Technology Sector Index Fund (AMEX: IXN) where we have detected an approximate $17.3 million dollar ...
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Forbes Earnings Preview: News Corp.
Forbes
News Corp. is a global media company with operations engaged in producing, acquiring, and licensing various operations in film, television, cable network programming, direct broadcast satellite TV, integrated marketing services, newspapers, ...
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The Billionaire Chus And Kingston Financial Look To Make A Mark Beyond Hong Kong
Forbes
That helped the family to debut on the Forbes Hong Kong Rich List at No. 32 this year with wealth of $1.2 billion in January. Now comes the hard part: Achieving their goals in a difficult global economic environment and amid ever-growing competition ...
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Brazil's Andre Esteves BTG Investment Firm To Create $1B Private Equity Africa ...
Forbes
Forbes estimates Esteves' net worth at $3 billion, as of March 2012. The 43-year old banker is ranked #377 globally, compared to Forbes Billionaires, and #13 in Brazil. Nicole Kekeh is a contributor to ForbesWoman World With A View, a perspective on...
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Forbes
Forbes Midas List Recognizes Institutional Venture Partners (IVP)
MarketWatch (press release)
He was also the President of Visa Marketplace Inc. (Visa's investment subsidiary) and managed Visa's global technology investment portfolio. Todd earned a BS with honors from the University of Minnesota Carlson Business School.
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Chicago's TechNexus Named to Forbes List of Top 10 Startup Incubators and ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
9 spot on Forbes list, which evaluates incubators on member companies' venture financing, success rate and other metrics. Chicago, IL (PRWEB) May 03, 2012 TechNexus, Chicago's first collaborative ecosystem for tech entrepreneurs and business leaders, ...
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Forbes Midas List Recognizes Institutional Venture Partners (IVP)
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
He was also the President of Visa Marketplace Inc. (Visa's investment subsidiary) and managed Visa's global technology investment portfolio. Todd earned a BS with honors from the University of Minnesota Carlson Business School.
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Drugs, Terrorism And Medicare Fraud: HSBC's Messy Money Laundering Investigations
Forbes
Reuters says a successful case by investigators could amount to one of the biggest fines in money laundering cases ever against a global bank. However, Bill Singer, a securities industry lawyer and Forbes contributor, says the bigger picture here is ...
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Navin Chaddha and Tim Chang Named to Forbes Midas List of Top Tech Investors
MarketWatch (press release)
MENLO PARK, Calif., May 03, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Mayfield Fund, a 43-year old early stage venture capital firm, today announced that Managing Directors Navin Chaddha and Tim Chang were named to the prestigiousForbes Midas list of Top Tech Investors ...
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'Defending Our Defenders': Forbes Kicks Off Tour in Chesapeake, Virginia
Heritage.org (blog)
Representatives Randy Forbes (R–VA) and Scott Rigell (R–VA) will be hosting a listening session in Chesapeake, Virginia, on Monday, May 14, at 6:30 pm at the Chesapeake Conference Center. This event, part of a larger House Armed Services Committee ...
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Heritage.org (blog)
Cracks begin to appear
China Daily
By Meng Jing (China Daily) Four years ago, Forbes' International Investing Guide chose China's cement industry, one of the nation's least glamorous, as a rising sector after a monstrous earthquake rocked Sichuan province in May 2008, claiming almost ...
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China Daily
Japan firms to help create Myanmar bourse
Chicago Tribune
Global interest in Myanmar stocks has grown recently as the country opens up its economy and the US and Europe begin lifting their strict sanctions. Renowned US investor Jim Rogers said in an April 2011 Forbes interview that if Myanmar opens a stock ...
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The Midas List? Yeah, sure, & I'm Brad Pitt
GigaOM
3, 2012, 12:28pm PT 7 Comments Forbes came out with its annual Midas List, which ranks venture capitalists. Lists on the web are essentially page view machines, but at Forbes, they are a religion. I worked for Forbes.com and know how much work used to ...
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Cisco's Second Place
Forbes India
He entrusted the task of setting up Cisco's second globalheadquarters, called Globalisation Centre East (GCE), to 60-year-old Wim Elfrink, a Dutch, who is his friend and a key member of his leadership team. The GCE, with a campus spread over one ...
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Forbes India
SPIN METER: Lawmakers' talk of cuts is just talk
CBS News
Randy Forbes, R-Va. — whose district includes huge Navy bases and the Army's Fort Lee — called the base-closing idea "flawed." It's hardly new. Twenty years ago, then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney told senators: "Congress has directed me to spend ...
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Livestock's carbon footprint 'catastrophic,' say climate experts
Inquirer.net (blog)
According to them, livestock farming now accounts for the use of 70 percent of the global freshwater and 38 percent of the world's land-use conversion. Some 70 percent of the Amazon Rainforest, in fact, has already been cleared for grazing and feed ...
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Interactive Intelligence reports first-quarter 2012 financial results ...
ITWeb (press release)
The company is among Forbes Magazine's 2011 Best Small Companies in America and Software Magazine's 2011 Top 500 Global Software and Service Providers. It employs more than 1 000 people and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Using surveys to understand investment performance outcomes
ITInews
For many years Alexander Forbes has produced surveys to help its managers and advisors accurately track trends and produce winning results. To make the interpretation of its surveys easier and avoid misinterpretation of these results Alexander Forbes ...
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ITInews
Fab.com: From Failed Gay Social Networking Site To Fabulously Rich Design E-tailer
Queerty
A recent Forbes profilefocuses in on how amazingly quick Fab got fabulously rich: Launched last June, Fab expects to do $100 million in sales this year but has already passed $300000 per day. Fab has been called the fastest e-commerce company to reach ...
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Hillwood and Clarion Partners Announce Joint Venture to Develop Fulfillment ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Hillwood's developments currently house facilities for 58 companies listed on the Fortune 500, Global 500 or Forbes List of Top Private firms. Hillwood is best known for its Alliance brand that includes the 17000-acre AllianceTexas, ...
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Facebook's Early Shareholders Will Sell Up To $5.5 Billion With IPO. Here's ...
TechCrunch
Crunchbase FACEBOOK MARK ZUCKERBERG DST GLOBALACCEL PARTNERS JIM BREYER Company: Facebook Website: facebook.com Launch Date: February 1, 2004 Funding: $2.34B Facebook is the world's largest social network, with over 500 million users.
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TechCrunch
5 Market Experts You Need To Follow On Twitter
Business Insider
Twitter in particular has grown into a global community with a reach extending to every nook and corner of the ETF universe; this increasingly popular platform offers exposure to insights from a range of industry experts, institutions, ...
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Jive Software: Current Star, Future Wallflower?
Seeking Alpha
With restricted stockholders free to sell their shares, Forbes has cautioned, "expect them to rush for the door at the first possible moment." Since Groupon initially released only a tiny fraction of its shares when it went public, experts have warned, ...
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Manulife Financial's CEO Discusses Q1 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
Michael W. Bell - Chief Financial Officer, Senior Executive Vice President and Member of Executive Committee Cindy L. Forbes - Executive Vice President, Chief Actuary and Member of Executive Committee James R. Boyle - President of John Hancock ...
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Federal Spending Cuts Rarely Happen
Huffington Post
Last week, House Armed Services Committee members rejected the Defense Department's effort to retire 18 Air Force Global Hawk drones, which would have saved $260 million. The planes are built in the district of the committee's chairman, Rep.
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I Am America's Amygdala
Town Hall
I can be stimulated by opposite fears, such as too much or too little freedom, orglobal warming or cooling, or too many wars or too few. This is because things like contradictions are processed in other parts of the brain. My potency can be diminished ...
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Zuckerberg to Raise $1 Billion Cash From Facebook IPO
OzarksFirst.com
His remaining 504 million shares will make him worth $17.6 billion if Facebook hits the top of its IPO range -- enough to make him one of the 50 richest people on the planet, by Forbes' calculation. Bloomberg has already give him a spot in its ...
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Institutional Corruption Is Killing the Economy
Center for Research on Globalization
Forbes wrote an article in 2006 entitled “The Economics of Trust”. The article summarizes the importance of trust in creating a healthy economy: Imagine going to the corner store to buy a carton of milk, only to find that the refrigerator is locked.
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Center for Research on Globalization
Cameron in push for elected city mayors
Financial Times
“Our great northern cities have the opportunity to get the leadership and focus that other cities around the world have in the great global race for jobs and investment,” Mr Cameron said. However, critics say that the powers of any mayor are undefined.
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ARAMARK Helps Create Safe Community Space for Miami's Homeless
Sacramento Bee
Today, Miami Rescue Mission and more than 100 volunteers from globalprofessional services company ARAMARK will celebrate their partnership by creating an ARAMARK Building Community Safe and Healthy Opportunity Zone, enhancing the general safety and ...
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Facebook valued up to $95B for IPO on Wall Street
Washington Times
(Associated Press) NEW YORK — Facebook, the company that turned the Web into a global social venue, has set a price range for an initial public offering of stock that values the company at up to $95 billion. Facebook's IPO would be the biggest ever ...
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Washington Times
Here comes the shareholder litigation
The Deal Pipeline
MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., says Lawrence Hamermesh, a professor at Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, Del. In Revlon, the Delaware Supreme Court held that a target board must get the best price reasonably available for the company ...
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This week's Midwest Energy News: What does global warming have ...
By Jenna
OPINION: No, wind farms are not causing global warming, despite what you might have heard from Fox News. (The Washington Post). HIGHWIRE: Minnesota's home builders association says an updated energy code will add thousands to the ...
Fresh Energy
Wind Farms Cause Global Warming! - Forbes
That doesn't sound like Global Warning that sounds like Local Warming… Still very interesting, I ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17871300 ...
www.forbes.com/sites/.../wind-farms-cause-global-warming/
Fosun Fosun Ranked 1136th on Forbes Global 2000
(26 April 2012 – Shanghai) Fosun International Limited ("Fosun") ranked 1136th on the latest Forbes Global 2000, published by Forbes Magazine in April.
www.fosun.com/En.php/News/View/ID/189
Forbes Global 2000 list: Latest News on Forbes ... - The Times of India
Read Latest news and Updates on Forbes Global 2000 list, Forbes Global2000 list breaking news on Times of India.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Forbes-Global-2000.../news
Aflac Ranks 214 on 2012 Forbes Global 2000 List - Yahoo! Finance
COLUMBUS, Ga., April 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Aflac, the number one provider of supplemental insurance in the United States, serving more than 50 million ...
finance.yahoo.com/.../aflac-ranks-214-2012-forbes-12000099...
Insurance News - Aflac Ranks 214 on 2012 Forbes Global 2000 List
Insiders know more, are better prepared and generally more successful. Today's top advisors subscribe to our premium newsletter to ensure that they don't miss ...
insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=340263&type...
Aflac Ranks 214 on 2012 Forbes Global 2000 List - WLTZ 38 ...
Forbes compiles the Global 2000 list by screening Interactive Data, Thomson... Regional News & CommunityAflac Ranks 214 on 2012 Forbes Global 2000 List ...
www.wltz.com/.../aflac-ranks-214-on-2012-forbes-global-200...
Top Indian Companies in Forbes Global 2000 List
Top Indian Companies in Forbes Global 2000 List - Bangalore: Forbesmagazine has come up with the Forbes Global 2000 list, an annual ranking of the top ...
www.siliconindia.com/.../Top-Indian-Companies-in-Forbes-Gl...
Bayer U.S. News
Forbes' Global 2000 is a ranking of public companies based on their sales, ...This news release may contain forward-looking statements based on current...
www.bayerus.com/News%5CNewsDetail.aspx?ID...CAF1...
Fortum biggest Finnish company in Forbes Global 2000 list - Good ...
Forbes has published its annual rankings of the world's biggest companies on its Forbes Global 2000 list. Finnish energy company Fortum is ranked as number ...
www.goodnewsfinland.com/.../fortum-biggest-finnish-compan...
Top News Today | The Global Mobile ... - Us - Top News Today
top news today ... read full article @ forbes.com ... GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on Land Mobile Radio Systems markets.Global ...
us.topnewstoday.org/us/article/2152823/
Forbes: Dish Network is Colorado's biggest public company ...
Dish Network Corp. is the highest-ranking Colorado business on Forbes' latest list of the world's 2000 biggest publicly traded companies, at No. 595. Click on...
www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/.../forbes-global-2000.html
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