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FORBES News, Sep 03, 2011


The Trouble With Bob Lutz's Return to GM
Forbes
But she's got a huge job, with responsibility for 40000 global employees as well as the design, engineering, program management and quality of GM vehicles around the world. Forbes recently named her one of the World's Most Powerful Women. ...
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GLD: How Safe?
Forbes
And feel free to contact me at tom@taulli.com. The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. Just when it seemed like the global markets were finding some calm, we got another dose of volatility today. ...
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10 Vietnam firms in Forbes 'Best Under a Billion' list
Thanh Nien Daily
“Essentially these are our picks of the companies (from an initial field this year of over 15000) that have best managed through the economic volatility that began in 2008,”Forbes Asia wrote in its September issue. “Most navigated the global credit ...
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Thanh Nien Daily
Heat treatment
Tbo.com
By Len Tria, Uncommon Sense By Len Tria, Uncommon Sense A story reported in Forbes on July 27 is another rebuke of the Global Warming Chicken Little's proclaiming the end of the world. It is unfortunate that the mainstream media paid no attention to ...
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Editor who published controversial climate paper resigns, blasts media
Ars Technica
The sorts of people who would read the coverage of Spencer's article from Forbes or Fox News and nod along are, in many cases, convinced that scientists are part of a larger conspiracy. To them, the resignation will just be a sign that the conspiracy ...
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The Urban-Planning Culture War
Forbes
Email me at: edkainblog@gmail.com or follow me on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/erikkain The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. In the decades after World War II, urban planners across the country ...
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Seeking Fat Dividend Yields: Plenty of Iffy Stocks and Three Beauties
Forbes
We are contributors to Forbes, SeekingAlpha and syndicated to many of the top financial publications. The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. With the S&P 500 dividend yield back down to about 2 percent from ...
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Mahindra's First Global SUV Christened XUV500
MarketWatch (press release)
In 2011, Mahindra featured on the Forbes Global 2000 list, a listing of the biggest and most powerful listed companies in the world. Dun & Bradstreet also ranked Mahindra at No. 1 in the automobile sector in its list of India's Top 500 Companies. ...
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US tax law plays into SA's hands
BusinessLIVE
Well the levee finally broke this week via a billion rand deal where the massive global professional services company Marsh got Alexander Forbes's solid risk services business. This, of course, follows hot on the heels of Africa's biggest deal in more ...
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High Tide: From EU Agreement On Syria To Mark St. Pierre
Wall Street Journal (blog)
(New Orleans Times-Picayune, Forbes) The Wolfsburg Group, which is comprised of some of the world's largest banks, issued an update to its anti-bribery guidance. (Thomson Reuters Accellus) It's a mistake to belittle the first case charged under the UK ...
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Global M&A Data
Live Trading News
A subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan has acquired the brokerage business of South Africa's Alexander Forbes in 11 African countries for 809 million rand ($115.5 million), a company executive said on Thursday. ** EU regulators are examining whether a ...
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The new alchemists: Blank paper to greenbacks
Washington Post
Last year, Trump, Winfrey and the expecting couple earned, according to Forbes, a combined total of about $422 million. At the bureau, each weekday, around the clock, men and women like Bolden swipe security badges and walk into the rumbling belly of ...
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Marsh Boosts Presence in Africa With $115 Million Acquisition
Insurance News Net (press release)
Marsh, a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Cos ., said it would pay up about $115.1 million to acquire the brokerage business of South Africa -based Alexander Forbes . The acquisition would give Marsh a major foothold in "the one major ...
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China and the world: A chilly reception
Financial Times
Having made his fortune in property, he owns leisure and tourism assets across the country, placing him 161st among its richest people, according to Forbes, with a net worth of $890m. “We stand at the dawn of hundreds of billions of dollars in Chinese ...
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Financial Times
London Police Arrest Two Men Connected to Hacking Group Anonymous
Web Host Industry Review
The arrests are part of an global ongoing investigation into Anonymous and LulzSec. Police say the arrests are connected with suspected offences conducted under the online identity "Kayla." Forbes says Kayla claimed to be a 16-year-old girl, ...
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Web Host Industry Review
Pension industry calls for mandatory savings
BusinessLIVE
... the head of institutional strategy at Alexander Forbes, John Anderson, said yesterday that mandatory preservation was necessary given SA's low savings rate and the cyclical performance of the economy, which was now at the mercy of globalevents. ...
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BusinessLIVE
WAIT! Now AOL Says Mike Arrington Is Still An Employee – In The Business ...
Business Insider
Magazines such as Wired and Forbes have... More » It never ceases to amaze how completely stupid Timmy Total Ass and his minions are. Present case, in point. Something a simple as the Arrington matter and they can't even get on the same page internally ...
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Business Insider
BRITAIN'S SPEND SPEND SPEND CULTURE
Express.co.uk
In its annual rich list business magazine Forbes says the world's richest man Carlos Slim Helº has increased his fortune by 38 per cent to £46billion. For these people the problem is not how to afford the things they want but how to find things ...
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Beyonce: she's conquered the world of pop but becoming a mum could be her ...
Mirror.co.uk
This husband and wife team – ranked the second highest paid celebrity couple in the world by Forbes magazine (supermodel Giselle and NFL's Tom Brady are No.1 ) – always do things on their own terms. From Beyonce's arrival at the awards ceremony in a ...
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Mirror.co.uk
Interview With Gene Marks: Michael Gerber Would Hate Me!
Business Insider
He also writes columns for The New York Times, Forbes, BusinessWeek and American City Business Journals. He's also written five books on business management. But he's not one to rest on his laurels. “I'm not that successful. I work many hours. ...
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Stuart Leavenworth: Steel City message: Be bold, take risks
Sacramento Bee
The Economist and Forbes have both recently ranked Pittsburgh as America's most livable city. Unemployment for the Pittsburgh metro area in June was 7.4 percent, compared with 12.3 percent for Sacramento. During his visit here, Murphy said Sacramento ...
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RICH PICKINGS: Profiting on principle
Business Spectator
Chandler, who was valued last month by Forbes at $US4.2 billion, has been able to drive big investment returns by agitating for improved corporate governance on a number of occasions, particularly in emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia and the ...
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Alexander Forbes brokerage sold
Citizen
GlobaL risk adviser and insurance broker Marsh has acquired the brokerage business of AlexanderForbes for a maximum consideration of R1,1 billion, in a deal to be finalised before year-end. GlobaLrisk adviser and insurance broker Marsh has acquired ...
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International Non-Profit Offers Free Yoga Workshops to Bay Area Residents for ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
He is a two-time Nobel Prize nominee and was recently named the fifth most influential person in India by Forbes Magazine. He has been a consultant to many of the world's major political, religious and business leaders including being a guest of two US ...
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VC's 'buccaneering visionaries'
Financial News
In April, Breyer was ranked number one in Forbes' Midas List of top 10 investors and several have returned over 20 times their money to investors. Moritz joined the board of professional social network LinkedIn at the beginning of this year and his ...
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Accel Partners' Jim Breyer Slated To Join News Corp Board, Perkins To Exit
TechCrunch
In April 2011, Forbes published its Midas List of top ten investors and ranked Breyer el numero uno. His high-profile role at Facebook deserves to be put in the spotlight here, because News Corporation famously acquired once-rival MySpace for $580 ...
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Weekly Roundup: Public-Private Contracts in the UK, Keystone XL, and Climate ...
Dowser
In Forbes India, Shreedhar Kanetkar expanded on Hurd's statement, noting that governments often “find it harder to fund prevention than cure.” "Enthusiasm must be tempered with caution, for pilot projects are hard to assess and harder to scale up," he ...
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Big Bang: That Alleged Hole in Global Warming Just Blew Up In Fox ...
By Sarah Jones
Tags: Forbes, Fox News, Fox News climate change, global warming deniers at Fox News used bad data, resignation by editor of global warming denouncement. This entry was posted on September 2, 2011 at 2:31 pm and is filed under ...
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Snooki becomes news anchor, Anderson Cooper is for it
(Peter Kramer - AP) Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is now a news anchor. ... Though environmentalists lambasted him for calling global warming a “crock of sh*t”,. ...
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