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India's Rich Led by Mukesh Ambani Lose $59 Billion, Forbes Says
BusinessWeek
His net worth sank 16 percent to $22.6 billion, according to Forbes. The rupee lost 9.7 percent this year as investors pulled funds out of emerging markets on dimming globaleconomic prospects. The BSE India Sensitive Index of local shares slid 15.7 ...
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Creative Fire @ Forbes CMO Summit
Forbes
Yesterday I was triangulated between Andrew Essex, the very impressive CEO of the very impressive Droga5; Jenny Rooney, the able editor ofForbes CMO Network; and 100 CMOs from some of the world's largest companies on a panel at the Forbes CMO Summit. ...
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Forbes
Free Trade and Globalism Can Raise Labor Standards Across the Developing World
Forbes
Our findings, which are based on newly collected measures of labor rights around theworld, demonstrate a “California effect” on workers' rights, in which exporting nations are influenced by the labor rights conditions that prevail in their main ...
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The Relentless Pursuit of Magical Energy
Forbes
Will it change the world? No. Will it work? Doubt it. The lust for abundant cheap energy is entirely understandable. Fellow Forbes columnist Mark Gibbs eloquently articulates the appeal in his Hello Cheap Energy, Hello Brave New World column, ...
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Forbes
Bush Cabinet Member Will Advise gyro
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Former US Secretary Labor Elaine Chao will serve as an advisor to The @ Work State of Mind Project, a Research & Development project led by gyro, the global ideas shop. The announcement was made today at the Forbes CMO Summit at The Breakers where...
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Acer, Samsung: Drive Shortages From Thai Floods To Hurt PC Sales, Boost Prices
Forbes
Seagate CEO Steve Luczo said in an interview with Forbes last week that the issues from the flooding in Thailand are resulting in a “much more significant” supply chain interruption for the technology business than anything that happened after the ...
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Forbes
GDP and More Positive Data
Forbes
The £25.5 billion exported was the highest total since records began in 1998—a sign of strong global demand. And these are just a smattering of examples. Yes—there are negatives. But even in periods of the most robust global growth there will be weak ...
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ARCC Breaks Above 9% Yield Territory
Forbes
The site also analyzes trends in the dividend data to create Top Lists to help users. Two of the more notable Top Lists on the site include Monthly Dividend Payers and Preferred Stock Dividends. The author is a Forbes contributor. ...
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Offbeat math: Sizing up a world of 7 billion people
CBC.ca
Follow the money: According to the Forbes list of the world's billionaires for 2011, the world's richest man was Carlos Slim Helu from Mexico, with a net worth estimated at $74 billion US. He could afford to treat every person on Earth to lunch at Tim ...
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CBC.ca
Big picture looks at all Quinte
Belleville Intelligencer
1 in the world on two fronts: Forbes ranked Canada as the No. 1 country to do business in its annual survey, and Country Brand Index by FutureBrand, a New York-based global brand consultancy, has Canada ranked at the No. 1 country brand in theworld. ...
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10-Q: REVLON INC /DE/
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Revlon, Inc. is a direct and indirect majority-owned subsidiary of MacAndrews & ForbesHoldings Inc. ("MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings" and together with certain of its affiliates other than the Company, "MacAndrews & Forbes"), a corporation wholly-owned ...
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India gears up for first Formula One race
The Guardian
According to the Forbes India Rich List 2011, the country has 57 billionaires whose combined wealth is $241bn. Beyond the ultra-rich there are an estimated 62000 households worth more than £3m. The number is expected to more than treble in the next ...
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The Guardian
Multinational companies barely complying with regulations, finance reporting
inAudit
This was according to Ernst & Young's survey of more than 200 finance and tax executives from the Fortune Global 500 and Forbes Global 2000 companies, including those from Hong Kong and Mainland China. The report looks into how far multinational ...
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inAudit
Yes, Global Warming is Real AND Caused by Humans
PlanetSave.com
James Taylor (no, not that James Taylor), senior fellow for (anti-)environment policy at the Heartland Institute, has a completely inane op-ed published in Forbes this week that essentially says: “Oh, we knew the earth was warming — no one denied that ...
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Will stocks outperform bonds?
Equitymaster.com
As per Forbes, global slowdown has eroded 20% of the total value of the country's 100 wealthiest in the last one year. However, there has been a stark contrast as far as the performance of two Ambani brothers is concerned. While Mukesh Ambani retained ...
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Saudi Arabia Installs ZOLL AED Plus Units to Resuscitate Pilgrims Who ...
MarketWatch (press release)
A NASDAQ Global Select company and a Forbes 100 Most Trustworthy Company in 2007, 2008, and 2009, and a Forbes Top 100 Small Business Company in 2011, ZOLL develops and manufactures its products in the United States, in California, Colorado, Illinois, ...
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Financial Times Ranks UB School of Management's Executive MBA Program as One ...
UB News Center
The UB School of Management is recognized for its emphasis on real-world learning, community and economic impact, and the global perspective of its faculty, students and alumni. The school also has been ranked by Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, ...
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Better Leaders, Better World
University of Dayton - News Home
The consulting company works with about 80 of the Fortune 100 firms in the US and about 75 of the Forbes Global 100 companies. In addition to leading the company, Heckman, who earned a Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from the University ...
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University of Dayton - News Home
Swiss Study Ranks The Vanguard Group 8th among Companies Who 'Run the World' - cbl
Citybizlist (press release)
As Forbes points out in its story titled The 147 Companies that Control Everything, the study "excludes GSEs and privately-held companies and is dominated by banks, institutional investors and mutual funds that don't always have much in the way of ...
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Citybizlist (press release)
2011 Vibrant Awards Winners Announced
PR Newswire UK (press release)
Martin Forbes, Senior Vice President & MD Europe of Vibrant, who presented the UK awards said, "We celebrate the innovative, creative and successful contextual campaigns in the Vibrant Awards. The opportunities for global and national blue-chip to...
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Canadian PM Addresses Commonwealth Business Forum
The Epoch Times
“Canada is one of only two G-8 countries that have more people working now than before the 2008 recession,” he said, adding that the country was just declared by Forbesmagazine as the best country in the world for business. ...
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Kroger Concludes National Seafood Month with Sustainability Progress Update
Sacramento Bee
The company also operates 788 convenience stores, 361 fine jewelry stores, 1046 supermarket fuel centers and 40 food processing plants in the US Kroger was recognized by Forbes as the most generous company in the US The company focuses its charitable ...
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Brokers Flock to Sign up for London Market's Electronic Trading 'e-Accounts'
Insurance Journal
Brokers who are now using the e-Accounts service, include: Miller, Aon, Guy Carpenter, Price Forbes, Lockton, Towers Watson and UIB, with other major brokers committed to joining during the fourth quarter. Steve Spicer, Head of Business Change for ...
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Physician Prescriptions for ZOLL LifeVest Top 50000
MarketWatch (press release)
A NASDAQ Global Select company and a Forbes 100 Most Trustworthy Company for the past three years, ZOLL develops and manufactures its products in the United States, in California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. ...
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Sensex to kick of Samvat 2068 in style
India Infoline.com
The country's richest persons have seen their wealth erode due to a weak stock market, according to the latest Forbes India rankings. The combined wealth of India's richest 100 fell to $241 billion in 2011. Also, the Rich List has 57 dollar ...
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Why did it take years to Occupy Wall Street?
Globe and Mail
Built for India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani – ranked by Forbes as the ninth wealthiest person in the world with a fortune of $27-billion [US] – Antilia has dominated the Mumbai skyline since being completed last year. But speculation has grown as to ...
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Globe and Mail
When Infrastructures Collide: The Wells Fargo Story
CIO Insight
With an estimated 275000 employees and 70 million customers, it has made the Forbes“Top 20 Biggest Companies in the World” list and ranks 23rd in revenue among allglobal corporations in all industries, according to Fortune. ...
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The Art of Science by Richard Hamblyn - review
The Guardian
I don't see how it subtracts". And Hamblyn's book adds enormously to the pleasure that there is in science. Peter Forbes's Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage is published by Yale. Leatherback turtle crawling towards the sea.
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The Guardian
Perry's flat tax is a game-changer for growth
Washington Examiner
This research was later refined and advanced by Steve Forbes, and the flat tax became central to his presidential campaign. Since then, the flat tax has caught on worldwide, especially in Eastern Europe. Fair and predictable, it has led to ...
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Women still weep for power, resources for development
AfricaNews
Recently, the reputable international Forbes Africa Magazine also announced that Banda ranks the third most powerful woman in politics, business and other sectors in Africa after Africa's lone female President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Nigeria's woman ...
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AfricaNews
The Artie Wayne School of Music Economics: Counting up friends who count
Examiner.com
Seems statistics are leaning toward Wayne's World, if you will. A Reuters report two days ago noted that singer Michael Jackson 'was named this year's top-earning dead celebrity' in a list compiled by Forbes.com. This past year, Jackson's music has ...
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Why Chinese Sympathise with Occupy Wall Street
The Atlantic
He has written for Slate, The New Republic, and Forbes. Damien Ma is an analyst in the Asia practice at Eurasia Group. He studies and analyzes the intersection between Chinese politics and markets, with a particular focus on energy policies, ...
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The Atlantic
Mukesh Ambani richest Indian, Anil biggest loser
Moneycontrol.com
India's richest are getting poorer, according to Forbes, as falling stock prices, corruption scandals in Asia's third-largest economy and a globalslowdown wiped 20% off the total value of the country's 100 wealthiest in the last year. ...
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Moneycontrol.com
Love a bargain? There's nothing new about online vouchers
Irish Times
It sold more than 32 million vouchers in the second quarter of this year andForbes magazine described Groupon as the fastest growing company in web history – faster than Facebook, eBay or Amazon. Last year, a $6 billion deal with Google fell through ...
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Irish Times
Independent Study Confirms That Global Warming Exists - Forbes
Biggest Gainers On The Forbes 400 .... For decades he has been meticulously re -writing the world temperature history, .... News; People; Places; Companies ...
www.forbes.com/.../independent-study-confirms-that-global-w...
Forbes Earnings Preview: Archer Daniels Midland Company
Biggest Gainers On The Forbes 400 ... Ways To Deal With Debit Fees · World'sCheapest Gas · AdVoice: Innovation In The .... Narrative Science's News Stream ...
www.forbes.com/.../forbes-earnings-preview-archer-daniels-m...
Independent Study Confirms That Global Warming Exists
Global Warming is indeed the BIGGEST challenge we humans have ever faced. It is of our own making. We better own up to it, NOW!
www.forbes.com/.../independent-study-confirms-that-global-w...
India's 100 Richest
Roiled by inflation running at over 9% and a spate of corruption scandals, Asia's rising star has lost some of its sheen. Though India's economy is growing ...
www.forbes.com/.../india-billionaires-11-introduction-richest-...
Jewelry and Watch Demand Drives Global Luxury ... - Forbes
Latest News ». The Forbes Global 2000 are the biggest, most powerful listed companies in the world. This year's list reflects big gains in ...
www.forbes.com/.../jewelry-and-watch-demand-drive-global-l...
The World's Eight Best Sustainability Ideas - Forbes
... set up to recognize and support stand-out sustainability efforts around the world, ... Biggest Gainers On The Forbes 400 .... News ...
www.forbes.com/.../the-worlds-eight-best-sustainability-ideas/
Forbes names Kazakh president's son-in-law as ... - Telegraph.co.uk
In March, in its global rich list, Forbes international magazine ranked Mr ... http:// www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/kazakhstan/8844259/Forbes-names- ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Forbes-names-Kazakh-presidents-son-...
New Forbes Rating: 50 Russians Who Conquered the World | News ...
There are at least 50 reasons not to leave Russia — starting with a tycoon who controls 80 percent of the global market for optical fiber lasers and ending with an ...
www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/.../446183.html
The Oz Report hang gliding news - Coaching at Forbes
The Oz Report is a near-daily world wide hang gliding news ezine with reports ... to be flown at Forbes Flatlands 2012, will have competition legend and world ...
ozreport.com/1318953135
Global Times > NEWS > Michael Jackson.Forbes
For a second straight year Michael Jackson is the world's top dead earner, according to a macabre list compiled by Forbes magazine of stars whose earning ...
www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/.../Default.aspx?Tag...
Forbes indias rich led by mukesh ambani lose 59 billion ...
Ambani, 54, chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) that owns the world's biggest refining ... YourMoneySite.com Home > News > Forbes indias rich led by. ...
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