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FORBES News, Nov 18, 2011


Forbes unveils Africa's richest people
CNN
Forbes said its decision to launch the 40 Richest People in Africa is a "testament to the growing global importance of the continent." "Fortunes are being created everywhere from South Africa clear north to Morocco and Egypt in a diverse array of ...
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Forbes Energy Services to Celebrate Its U.S. Exchange Listing by Ringing the ...
MarketWatch (press release)
16, 2011, Forbes Energy commenced trading on NASDAQ Global Market under the ticker symbol "FES." The move followed a reincorporation into Texas from Bermuda and a four-to-one consolidation of its common stock. Additionally, Forbes retained its listing...
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Will Huawei Be The First Global Brand From China?
Forbes.com
Forbes Asia editor gets a rare look inside China's telecom trailblazer.
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Forbes.com Chooses Maxifier to Optimise Ad Campaign Delivery and Performance
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
NEW YORK, NY - 17 November, 2011 - Maxifier, the world's leader in online ad campaign performance optimisation, announces today that Forbes.com has added Maxifier's adMAX™ technology to optimise campaign performance, manage globalinventories and ...
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Simply South Forbes
Philippine Star
Presently, South Forbes's Education Cluster is home to the Learning Links Academy of Sta. Rosa which offers pre-school to secondary levels and with a day care center to boot. The recently-opened South Forbes City Colleges, in partnership with Global ...
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Communicate in Forbes #1 country for business
openPR (press release)
"(Canada's) $1.6 trillion economy is the ninth biggest in the world and grew 3.1% last year. It is expected to expand 2.4% in 2011, according to the Royal Bank of Canada,"Forbes. Canada is unparalleled in economic strength and business opportunity. ...
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Guido Mantega – Brazil's economic genius and global figurehead
Brazil Property
Forbes is one of America's biggest, powerful and most influential magazines, known for its captivating supplements – the Forbes 400 and its annual list of billionaires. Mantega is someone Forbes sees as being a big player on the world stage in the next ...
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Deripaska Sees Euro-Dollar Parity in 2012
Bloomberg
“I'm surprised some still believe in the euro,” Deripaska, 43, owner of a fortune that Forbes estimates at $16.8 billion, said yesterday in an e-mailed reply to questions. “The crisis in Europe is developing fast” and “against that background I don't ...
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Bloomberg
The Coming China Collapse: Economic, Political Or Both?
Seeking Alpha
Analysts from Forbes to the Reuters have proclaimed their bullish sentiment with very little reservation. Recommendations to purchase China ETFs including iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index Fund (FXI), SPDR S&P China (GXC) and PowerShares and even ...
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Analysts Initiated Coverage for TIVO, CCL, CTCH, FCS, FES, FULT
Beacon Equity Research
Forbes Energy Services (NASDAQ:FES) Global Hunter Securities has initiated coverage for Forbes Energy Services at Buy. Forbes Energy Services Limited is an independent oilfield services contractor that provides a wide range of well site services to oil ...
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Could Jon Huntsman's Fifteen Minutes as GOP Front-Runner Be Next?
Forbes
Hunstman may be soft on social issues and a believer in global warming, but he's a staunch fiscal conservative. Now that fiscal conservatism is in and neoconservatism is out, his views on our foreign wars will also work to his advantage. ...
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Deripaska Sees Euro-Dollar Parity, Flooding Russia With Imports
BusinessWeek
“I'm surprised some still believe in the euro,” Deripaska, 43, owner of a fortune thatForbes estimates at $16.8 billion, said yesterday in an e-mailed reply to questions. “The crisis in Europe is developing fast” and “against that background I don't ...
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Obama's celebrity status both envied and distained in the world today
HULIQ
Thus, it's no surprise that Forbes “annual list of the wealthiest 400” are worth $1.5 trillion or more than the gross domestic product of Canada. Obama's celebrity status both envied and distained in the world today.
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Young hold 'euro crisis' key
Asia Times Online
Reuven Brenner holds the Repap Chair at McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management. The article draws on his Force of Finance (2002). (This is an edited version of an article also published by Forbes.)
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Project Home: Reinventing the toilet for the developing world
Enterprise-Record
No matter what you think of Bill Gates and his outlandish wealth (Forbes magazine says he's worth $59 billion), you have to admire that he's doing good to help the entire world. Gates is attempting to build a basic foundation to better hygiene and ...
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Fact Check: Did Mobius Say Financial 'Armageddon' Was Coming Soon?
AdvisorOne
By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne A Forbes blog post with a screaming headline pegged to Mark Mobius about a “hellish” financial crisis shortly forthcoming has been generating plenty of fear in the Internet sphere. The article by Addison Wiggin was picked ...
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Calysto Communications Wins Two Stevie(R) Awards Recognizing Calysto's ...
MarketWatch (press release)
As a result of the campaign, Calysto secured coverage on Web sites reaching more than 702 million unique visitors and in publications with around 3 million readers in just four days -- including coverage in Forbes, MSNBC and Inside Dateline. ...
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$550 Million Phase II Facility Expansion Completed at Severstal
The Columbus Packet
Speaking at the grand opening were Mississippi Governor-elect Phil Bryant, CEO of OAO Severstal and yearly member of the Forbes' World's Top 100 Billionaires List, Alexey Mordashov, and CEO of Severstal North, Sergei Kuznetsov. ...
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Best Foot Forward: Innovation and entrepreneurship in Chile
Santiago Times
Monday marked the first day of Global Entrepreneurship Week, making this the perfect time to explore innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities in Chile. Chile was recently voted 24th in the Forbes 2011 “Best Countries for Business,” leading among ...
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Celebrating the 15th Anniversary of CyberLink, one of "Asia's 100 Hot Growth ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... and one of "Asia's 200 Best Under a Billion" companies by Forbes Magazine. "It is amazing to see how CyberLink transitioned from its humble beginnings to one of Taiwan's top 20 global brands," said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink. ...
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2012 CES Innovation Power Panel Keynote to Feature CEOs of Ford, Verizon and Xerox
MarketWatch (press release)
Burns has been recognized for her leadership by both Fortune and Forbes magazine's "Most Powerful Women" lists. Also, under Ursula's watch Xerox has been named to Bloomberg Businessweek's "The World's 25 Most Inventive Companies. ...
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Dawood Ibrahim: Musharraf gives credence to Indian charges
The News International
Currently on the most wanted list of the International Police (Interpol) for his involvement in organised crime and counterfeiting and ranking No4 on the Forbes list of the World'sTop 10 most dreaded criminals, Dawood had been declared a specially ...
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Andy and Barbara Taylor: Opening Doors to Opportunity
Sacramento Bee
... more than 1 million cars and trucks, making it the largest car rental service provider in the world measured by revenue, employees and fleet. Enterprise Holdings currently is ranked No. 16 on the Forbes "Top 500 Private Companies in America" list. ...
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Morning Links: After Libya Embarrassment, Herman Cain Campagin Is Twice Shy
New York Observer
... run an op-ed which said that global warming is real in its US edition, although it ran online and in European editions. [CJR] Lots of passive aggressive e-mailing going on over at TechCrunch/AOL/Huffington Post. [Forbes] Conservative hotelier Doug ...
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GridWise Forum Shows Alignment of Policy and Automation Energy Initiatives
ARC Advisory Group (blog)
by Harry Forbes on 11/17/2011 3:09 PM In a recent Insight on the Smart Grid, ARC concluded that: "What would help this market most would be a broad consensus around a few simple, elegant, and consistent policies." The GridWise Global Forum is an annual ...
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GE-China Deal: Economic Opportunity Comes With Risks
China Digital Times
From Defense News: [Republican Representative Randy] Forbes said he is concerned the technology could end up in China's new stealth fighter, the J-20, under production by AVIC. [Republican Representative Frank] Wolf responded with a Nov. ...
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GAMCO Raises Stake in Tredegar Corp. to 10% Worth $70.8 Million - cbl
Citybizlist (press release)
He was first ranked as a billionaire in 2006 by Forbes magazine. Last year, he was ranked #937 by Forbes with a net worth of $1 billion. Tredegar had sales of $740 million in 2010. With approximately 2000 employees, the company operates manufacturing ...
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Finance veteran Don McCauley guides Qualys' rapid growth
San Jose Business Journal
The company also has tripled its revenue, more than doubled its number of customers, tripled its number of Fortune 1000 customers, and tripled its number of Forbes Global2000 customers in the last five years. But he has been no stranger to helping ...
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HFMWeek Daily Snapshot - 18 November
HFMWeek
John Mattera was arrested in his Florida home today and charged with operating an investment scam peddling pre-IPO shares in Facebook, Groupon, which went public on 4 November, and other companies, writes Forbes. In a complaint filed today in federal ...
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OTCtipReporter.com: South American Silver Corp. (PINK SHEETS: SOHAF), MedClean...
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
... as one of the "World's Most Ethical Companies" by the Ethisphere Institute, as the industry leader in FORTUNE magazine's "World's Most Admired Companies," and as one of America's Largest Private Companies by both FORTUNE and Forbes magazines....
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Hugh Muir's diary
The Guardian
Congrats to Patrick Forbes of Oxford Films, whose 90-minute programme, WikiLeaks: Secrets and Lies, airs on Channel 4 on 29 November. It will be the first cinema-length documentary about Julian Assange to reach the public. Forbes gathers the thoughts ...
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Total Community Action, Inc. Announces New ARAMARK Partnership to Strengthen ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The company is recognized as the industry leader in FORTUNE magazine's "World'sMost Admired Companies," and as one of America's Largest Private Companies by both FORTUNE and Forbes magazines. ARAMARK seeks to responsibly address issues that matter to ...
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Billionaire heir to Cargill fortune dies in Calif.
Ventura County Star
MacMillan was worth an estimated $2.6 billion based on his share in the family company, according to Forbes magazine, which placed him and other relatives on its list of the 400 richest Americans. The family, which has a reputation for secrecy, ...
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Northern Rock sold to Virgin Money
BBC News
The Unite trade union said it hoped the announcement of the sale to Virgin Money "will be the start of a secure future" for Northern Rock's workforce. The leader of Newcastle City Council, Nick Forbes, said it was "delighted that the future of Northern ...
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BBC News
Man of the moment
The New Age Online
Numerous news agencies and online media outlets including TMZ, Mashable andForbes have reported on the discussion, mentioning Jobs during the course of Time's 2011 Person of the Year discussion panel at the beginning of November. ...
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J.D. Power and Associates Ranks Quicken Loans Inc. Highest U.S. Home Lender ...
Sacramento Bee
"QuickenLoans.com" has been named "Best of the Web" by Forbes and Money magazines. The company also has been named to FORTUNE magazine's list of the country's "100 Best Companies To Work For" eight consecutive years, ranking as high as #2, ...
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WPI Named a Top Pick Among U.S. Colleges for Return on Investment
Newswise (press release)
A 2008 Payscale survey reported by Forbes.com ("The Top Colleges for Getting Rich") ranked WPI No. 9 in the nation for graduates employed for 10 to 20 years. The university has also ranked high in Payscale's "Best Paid Graduates" rankings: in both ...
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Full Tilt Poker News: Settlement Stalled?
International Business Times
According to a September article in Forbes magazine, Lederer claimed the company only had $6 million in funds remaining -- nowhere near enough to refund players whose accounts had been frozen. But in early October --shortly after the Alderley Gaming ...
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Why we should worry about euro woes
Fin24
... and Alexander Forbes indicates South African pension fund members have lost an estimated R121bn between the JSE's highs and lows this year. This shows how many South Africans are directly affected by the uncertainty in global share markets. ...
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Q&A with Priya Haji, CEO of World of Good and new venture - Forbes
Special Report: Global Investing Strategies · Tech ... The World's Most Powerful People · America's Best .... News; People; Places; Companies. + show more ...
www.forbes.com/.../qa-with-priya-haji-ceo-of-world-of-good-...
Recycling Has Gone Global
As anyone that reads the news can tell you, the world is becoming “flatter” every day. New technology has allowed for communication to take place in an instant ...
www.forbes.com/sites/philfava/.../recycling-has-gone-global/
Facebook Passwords Must Be Shared in Divorce Case
Latest News ». The Forbes Global 2000 are the biggest, most powerful listed companies in the world. This year's list reflects big gains in profit and sales from a ...
www.forbes.com/.../facebook-passwords-must-be-shared-in-di...
Viacom Jumps After Earnings Beat
Market Pulse follows the news, trends and people that are at the heart of globalmarkets. I am a markets and investing reporter for Forbes, focusing on the ...
www.forbes.com/sites/.../viacom-jumps-after-earnings-beat/
StreetInsider.com - Global Hunter Securities Starts Forbes Energy ...
More News related to FES. Global Hunter Securities Starts Forbes Energy Services (FES) at Buy; Speaking of Nobody's Looking · Forbes Energy Services ...
www.streetinsider.com/New.../6958889.html
Forbes cover story profiles Bill Gates, Foundation's work in global ...
The November 21 cover story of Forbes magazine profiles Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has focused ...
www.news-medical.net/.../Forbes-cover-story-profiles-Bill-Gat...
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