FORBES News, Jun 08, 2012

Inside Forbes: How We're Helping Journalists Find Their Voice With E-Books Forbes Her posts on Forbes.com about Anonymous, a loosely assembled global group of hackers, gained her face-to-face, on-the-record meetings with two senior representatives. Her book, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous and the ... See all stories on this topic »

Regulation 28 brings changes to Alexander Forbes' Large Manager Watch ITInews To accommodate this changing competitive environment, Alexander Forbes' has taken the decision to launch a new look Large Manager Watch (LMW) that recognises that the managers that qualify for the Global Large Manager Watch may not necessarily be the... See all stories on this topic » ITInews

Aflac Incorporated Hires Timothy "Chip" Stevens As Managing Director; Global ... MarketWatch (press release) For six consecutive years, Aflac has been recognized by Ethisphere magazine as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies and by Forbes magazine as one of America's Best-Managed Companies in the Insurance category. In 2012, Fortune magazine recognized ... See all stories on this topic »

In China, Only Sportwear Makers Can Compete With Global Apparel Leaders, Anta ... Forbes 21 st Century is partly owned by Fosun Group; Fosun Media is a licensing partner of Forbes Media. Anta competes in China with Nike, Adidas and other global brands. Yet Ding's Anta hasn't been able to escape a downturn affecting China's sporting goods ... See all stories on this topic »

WPP Names Visible Technologies as Its Preferred Provider in Social Listening ... MarketWatch (press release) Visible is the solution of choice for many Forbes Global 2000 companies in a variety of industries including financial services, pharmaceutical, automotive, consumer products, retail, travel and hospitality, telecom, technology, and agencies. See all stories on this topic »

Forbes Names Parent Company of OneNeck IT Services a "Most Trustworthy Company" MarketWatch (press release) Forbes partners with GMI Rating (GMI), a global corporate governance research agency, to produce the annual list. GMI's quantitative and qualitative analysis looks beyond the raw data on companies' income statements and balance sheets to assess the ... See all stories on this topic »

Deloitte survey: Challenges abound, yet life sciences and health care industry ... MarketWatch (press release) NEW YORK, June 6, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- According to a new survey conducted byForbes Insights for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL), despite the challenges, both health care providers and life sciences companies are coming to terms ... See all stories on this topic »

Marsh gets aggressive in Africa BusinessLIVE Insurance broking group's Africa strategy goes into high gear as it snaps up Alexander Forbesoperations in Uganda. IT HAS not taken global insurance broking and risk management group Marsh long to live up to its promise to accelerate its African ... See all stories on this topic »

The Pitfalls Of Buying Alternative Investments Forbes says Siedle, a former Securities & Exchange Commission lawyer and current contributor to Forbes.com who runs Benchmark Financial Services out of Ocean Ridge, Fla. There's no doubt individual investors and their financial advisors are falling in love ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

Global Economic Fundamentals Not-So-Sound Forbes Strategists have been telling Forbes for most of the last month that the economy would be lucky to grow at 0.1%. Market consensus had growth at 0.5%. Brazil disappointed, even with historic low interest rates of 9% throughout much of the quarter. See all stories on this topic »

Marsh gets going with African strategy Business Day IT DID not take global insurance broking and risk-management group Marsh long to live up to its promise to accelerate its African strategy. It announced the completion of its acquisition of AlexanderForbes Risk Services' operations in Uganda yesterday ... See all stories on this topic »

3M, General Mills Among 100 “Most Reputable Companies” Twin Cities Business Magazine (blog) 3M Company, Inc., and General Mills, Inc.—both of which routinely appear on national and global“best companies” lists—are among the 100 most reputable in the world, according to a list thatForbes released Thursday. “The World's Most Reputable ... See all stories on this topic »

Billionaire Fisher Turns Bullish on Stimulus: China Overnight Bloomberg Billionaire Kenneth Fisher, who bought Chinese shares as they rallied from a 2-1/2 year low in the fourth quarter, said the stocks will beat global equities as the government takes further steps to boost growth. China will loosen monetary policy for ... See all stories on this topic »

Craning up to be a giant China Daily The company's founder and chairman Liang Wengen - ranked by Forbes magazine as the richest man on the Chinese mainland with wealth of $9.3 billion - credits Xiang for Sany's giant transformation. "It was Xiang who proposed that Sany should take the ... See all stories on this topic » China Daily

Booming Chinese MMO Games Market Forecast To Generate $6.1 Billion In 2012 Forbes “China is home to more than 150 million gamers who collectively generate half of theglobal PC online games revenue, and several large online game companies that have begun to expand internationally,” said Lisa Cosmas Hanson, managing partner of Niko... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

'Dr. Doom' Roubini Becomes A Prepper Forbes In summary, RGE (which stands for Roubini Global Economics, the good professor's market research firm) is now greatly concerned about the future and investors who take a Roubini world view need to prepare. Prepare for what? See all stories on this topic »

Savir's Corner: Tel Aviv, the quintessential Israel Jerusalem Post By URI SAVIR Tel Aviv, the city that never sleeps, was a center of global attention last week when Madonna opened her world tour here. Tel Aviv, the city that never sleeps, was a center of globalattention last week when Madonna opened her world tour ... See all stories on this topic »

VW's US Sales Zoom; Shifts Gears Globally MediaPost Communications by Thom Forbes, Today, 7:52 AM Though they still lag behind Japanese automakers in JD Power polls measuring US consumers' perceptions of dependability, Detroit's Big Three are said to be “on a roll, thanks to new products and improved quality. See all stories on this topic »

Millionaire households: UAE ranks 6th in world Khaleej Times The UAE was sixth in the global ranking with five millionaire households per 100, the Boston Consulting Group, or BCG, said in its report, entitled The Battle to Regain Strength: Global Wealth 2012. In 2009 also, the UAE was sixth in the world in the ... See all stories on this topic » Khaleej Times

Silicon Valley Is Creating Real Jobs By Making Real Things Forbes This story appears in the June 25, 2012 issue of Forbes Magazine. The engineers at Flextronics call them “napkin products” because they usually start out on the back of one. As the world's second-biggest electronics manufacturer-for-hire, they've seen ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

Are Rich Russians Believing In Russia Again? Forbes Omar Negyl, co-fund manager at the HSBC GIF BRIC fund, a $1.4 billion emerging market fund listed in Luxembourg, said in a telephone interview with Forbes on Wednesday that the market has oversold Russia. “The political concerns with (Vladimir) Putin ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

Researchers at Annual Science Fest Hail Universal Vaccines Forbes But what we need to think about is vaccines as a global immune system,” said Gary Nabel, director of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health, who is recognized for his efforts to develop a global vaccine against HIV. See all stories on this topic » Forbes

Schindler Elevator Corporation Receives BOMA-NJ's 2012 Alternate Energy Award MarketWatch (press release) MORRISTOWN, NJ, Jun 07, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Schindler Elevator Corporation, one of the leading global manufacturers of elevators, escalators and moving walks, is proud to announce that BOMA-NJ has awarded the company the 2012 Alternate Energy First ... See all stories on this topic »

According to the Department of Homeland Security, Cybercrime Is a Bigger ... CircleID By Terry Zink An article in Forbes the other day reports on US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano's comments that 'cybercrime represents the "greatest threat and actual activity that we have seen aimed at the west and at the United States" ... See all stories on this topic »

Meet The Oil Shale Eighty Times Bigger Than The Bakken Forbes That's a preposterous figure, enough oil to satisfy all of current global demand for 64 years, or to do 5 million bpd for more than 1000 years. Rosneft, says Clint, has already estimated 18 billion barrels on its Bazhenov acreage. See all stories on this topic »

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