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FORBES News, Aug 31, 2011


200 Best Under A Billion
Forbes
Most navigated the global credit crunch with little to no debt on their balance sheets. On average the companies on our list have a 13% debt-to-equity ratio. In fact, 67 of these companies carry no debt at all. Chinese and Hong Kong companies dominate ...
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Samsung Seeks Next Global Bestseller With Galaxy S II Smartphones
Forbes
En route to the Forbes gadget beat, I worked at Business Week, Time Asia and Random House. I also lived in South Korea and Hong Kong, where I quickly acquired a taste for fast broadband and sleek phones. Now I'm a staff writer focusing on telecom and ...
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Rick Perry Needn't Sweat His Global Warming Skepticism
Forbes
... Global Warming Hoax". It can be previewed and ordered at www.climateofcorruption.com. Additional information about my book and views can be found on my YouTube address: http://www.youtube.com/climateofcorruption. The author is a Forbes contributor. ...
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Thailand's 40 Richest
Forbes
Tatiana Serafin, a writer based in New York, heads Global Markets and Ideas (tatianaserafin.com) and covers billionaires and businesses in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Russia. She is a former Staff Writer at Forbes and has profiled billionaires in ...
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Ozics And The Future Of Mending Bones
Forbes
You can follow me on Twitter at @Jennalee The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. The worldwide orthopedic market had global revenues of more than $36b in 2008. The market is dominated by six global companies ...
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Warren Buffett, And His Board, May Be Too Old To Run Berkshire Hathaway
Forbes
I am a freelance writer with credits in the Financial Times, Boston Review, Columbia Journalism Review, Accountancy Age, Accountancy Magazine, Forbes, and others. I also blog at my own site, re: The Auditors a specialized news site about the business ...
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Has Peak Oil Come To The Non-Opec World? Maybe.
Forbes
I started writing for Forbes in 1999, during the dotcom bubble. In 2004 I moved from New York to Houston; from here I've written cover stories on the likes of Exxon, Chevron and Michael Dell while traveling to Saudi Arabia and Qatar and offshore Gulf ...
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The New Feminine Face Of The Media Elite
Forbes
... turnover at major TV networks resulted in new leading ladies, and one glass-shattering Brit upped her global profile. Has traditional media embraced its feminine side? The top 10 newswomen on this year's recently released Forbes list of the world's ...
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Forbes: Will a Christian billionaire become the new president of Egypt?
Beliefnet.com (blog)
(Many in the global art world may also recognize him as the one who pledged a $175000 reward for the return of Van Gogh's Poppies” stolen from Cairo's Mahmoud Khalil Museum in August, 2010 – a museum that also reportedly housed works by other major ...
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Dee Forbes
Director magazine
We are 100 per cent focused on being a content company." When Discovery began, the model was to create a global programme network, show it around the world and top up with acquisitions. "That's our model," Forbes says. "But Western Europe has such good ...
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Director magazine
Brazilian President makes 'Most Powerful Women' list
openPR (press release)
(openPR) - You would think that behind every great man there's a great woman, but according to Forbes, the only person the most powerful women are driving are themselves. Surprisingly enough, the top ten list consisted of women from politics and...
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openPR (press release)
Philippines: Coconut shipments down by 40% as of July
FreshPlaza
PCA Administrator Euclides G. Forbes told reporters at the sidelines of ceremonies yesterday marking the start of 25th National Coconut Week and 10th National Coconut Festival at the Megatrade Hall in SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City that the dry spell ...
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8 Virtuous Investment Options
Huffington Post (blog)
"Our philosophy is that to solve the world's toughest problems we need exponentially more resources than can be provided through just traditional philanthropy," says Ron D. Cordes in a Forbes.com interview this week. "Impact investing offers an ...
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On the EQC's funding woes, and a peak oil update
Scoop.co.nz
Peak Oil update Here's a useful Forbes magazine article on the prospects facing the oil industry. Profits are up, big time – as the article says, you'd expect that when the price is up at $120 a barrel for Brent crude – but the oil production outlook, ...
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Rick Mills: Cobalt Is the King of Critical Metals
Business Insider
RM: Green initiatives have become a global focus point for many investors. Cobalt holds a critical role in the future green energy economy, mainly for its use in rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles and consumer electronics. ...
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NFL: 5 Things Football Can Learn from Soccer
Bleacher Report
Per the Forbes list of the world's most valuable sports teams, Manchester United now sits in the No. 1 position. The financial dominance of the NFL on that list is undoubted, but soccer is catching up. FIFA (world soccer's largely defunct governing ...
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Bleacher Report
Irene blamed for gas shortages
Danbury News Times
"We are working to safely return our (third terminal) Forbes Ave petroleum distribution facility to normal service as soon as possible," Heine said. On West Avenue in Darien, Jahan Zaib, the manager of a Sunoco station that had no electricity directed ...
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New V-locity 3 Virtual Platform Disk Optimizer Released at VMworld
MarketWatch (press release)
CIO's, IT Managers and System Administrators of Global Fortune 1000 and Forbes 500 enterprises rely on Diskeeper Corporation's storage performance software to make their physical and virtual systems faster, more reliable, longer lived, ...
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Company 3 Opens New Location in Atlanta
MarketWatch (press release)
Company 3 is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc., ( www.bydeluxe.com ) which is a wholly owned subsidiary of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc. www.company3.com.
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SANY America Starts Operations at New Headquarters in Georgia
Lift and Access
This year, SANY Heavy Industry joined the Financial Times Global 500 list and theForbes World's Most Innovative Companies list. In July, the Wall Street Journal also reported that SANY has overtaken Caterpillar for excavator market share in China, ...
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Lift and Access
NanoArt 2011 International Online Competition - TOP10 Artists - Part II
Nanotechnology News
... Technology Review, the Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report and others, he became fascinated with the scientific images that were part of the stories he was reporting. Now with IBM's consulting unit,Global Business Services, Jack is continuing to explore ...
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CAA Saskatchewan selects Interactive Intelligence IP Business Communications ...
Call Centre Clinic News (press release)
The company is among Software Magazine's 2010 Top 500 Global Software and Services Suppliers, and Forbes Magazine's 2010 Best Small Companies in America. The company employs approximately 1000 people and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. ...
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MGM Grand Detroit Promotes Michael Urbin to Executive Chef
dBusinessNews Detroit (press release)
A Forbes Four Star and AAA Four Diamond Award-winning hotel, MGM Grand Detroit is the city's first and only downtown hotel, gaming, and entertainment destination built from the ground up. The hotel features 400 chic and stylish guest rooms, ...
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Pfizer's Xalkori and Abbott test show promise in personalized medicine ...
Medical Marketing and Media
Abbott told Forbes' Matthew Herper that the test would cost around $1500, with $250 going to Abbott and the rest to the lab. If testing were to become universal, that could mean around $30000 spent on tests for every patient that gets the drug, ...
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Ticket Summit(R) Announces Trade Show Roster
MarketWatch (press release)
This event attracts hundreds of global business leaders, entrepreneurs, and entertainment experts in the ticket community. Past attendees and sponsors include: Billboard, Blue Man Group, Broadway.com, eBay, Facebook, Forbes, Goldman Sachs, Google, ...
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Why elections matter—to the capitalists
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Even Forbes magazine—the self-described “capitalist tool”—ran a headline forecasting the “The Coming Global Class War.” Youth unemployment is no better here than in the countries that have recently experienced rebellion and revolution. ...
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Party for Socialism and Liberation
Are Chinese Auction Giants Guardian and Poly Making Moves Into the Western Art ...
ARTINFO
Forbes reported in May that Poly is considering opening an office in New York later this year, citing a speech by managing director Li Da, who said that the house was looking to help build up its customer base — apparently outside of mainland China. ...
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ARTINFO
From the editor
Director magazine
This month I interviewed Dee Forbes, executive vice president and managing director of Discovery Networks, Western Europe, who recalled the enormous pan-European restructure she undertook only six months into the role and talks about her pride that the ...
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Tech Stocks Continue To Slide Due To Global Economic ... - Forbes
Latest News ». The Forbes Global 2000 are the biggest, most powerful listed companies in the world. These global giants usually reorder themselves at a glacial ...
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