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FORBES News, Jan 06, 2012

The World's Friendliest Countries
Forbes
To determine which were the friendliest, Forbes isolated the results in four categories: ability to befriend locals, success in learning the local language, capacity for integrating themselves into the community, and ease in which they fit into the new ...
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Li Tops Hong Kong Rich List as Wealthy Get Poorer, Forbes Says
San Francisco Chronicle
New World Development Co. Chairman Cheng Yu-tung is the biggest gainer on theForbes list. His wealth jumped $6 billion to $15 billion after an initial public offering of subsidiary Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Ltd. last month, according to Forbes. ...
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Marsh acquires Alexander Forbes unit
Business Day
THE local unit of US-based global insurance and risk management group Marsh & McLennan has completed its acquisition of Alexander Forbes's risk business and expects soon to finalise the purchase of other businesses in five markets. ...
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Corporate Boards: Shifting From Aging Men To New Generation Of Women?
Forbes
BC Forbes, the founder of FORBES magazine, dedicated the first issue to women in business. “Forbes believes her achievements are wide,” he wrote, predicting that women “will soon sit on boards beside men.” That was in 1917, recalled BC's granddaughter, ...
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Forbes
CES: ViewSonic Launching Android Smartphone, Its First For US Market
Forbes
The Taipei-based company tells Forbes it will be showing a new Google Android-based handset at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The phone, dubbed ViewPhone 3, is aimed at Latin American consumers, but will also be available in the US, ...
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Forbes
Harry Potter - Watson And Grint Are Hollywood's Top Earning On-screen Couple
Contactmusic.com
The pair - who played Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley in the wizard franchise - topped the list compiled by Forbes after banking $4.2 billion between them at the global box office in four movies in the series in the last five years. ...
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Contactmusic.com
Top picks 2012: Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold
MSN Money
It's the biggest copper miner in the world. It owns the mining rights to three of the world's largest copper mines -- one in Utah, one in Indonesia and one in South America. In addition, according to the 2011 Forbes 2000 list, Freeport is also the ...
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MSN Money
Auto Expo 2012 Mahindra
3D Car Shows
In 2011, Mahindra featured on the Forbes Global 2000 list, a listing of the biggest and most powerful listed companies in the world. For four years in a row, Mahindra has featured in the Forbes Asia's Fab 50 List of the 50 best publicly traded ...
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3D Car Shows
Cognizant Schedules Fourth-Quarter 2011 Earnings Release and Conference Call
Sacramento Bee
With over 50 delivery centers worldwide and 130000 employees as of September 30, 2011, Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global2000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing...
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Opportunities Await Patient Investors
Moneyshow.com
By Marc Gerstein, Editor, Forbes Low-Priced Stock Report There's no doubt last year was a tough year, but it's not time to give up or give in, writes Marc Gerstein of ForbesLow-Priced Stock Report. The month ending December 15 was another dismal one ...
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Chrome powers ahead
Asia Times Online
Co-chairmen Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie may be replaced this month according to a report by Forbes. A board restructure also appears to be imminent. The company lost a huge share of its largest market, the US, and its stock plummeted over 70% last ...
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World Bank Economist Blames America For Its Wealth
Investor's Business Daily
According to the 2011 Forbes billionaire's list, Venezuela has a grand total of two billionaires in a population of 28 million people, vs. the US' 412 billionaires in a nation of 307 million. Democratically deficient Venezuela has one billionaire per ...
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HFT Firms Brace for a New, Bolder SEC
Advanced Trading
For starters, the regulator is expected to resume its focus on equity market structure and weigh in on the role of high-frequency traders, which David Dreman, a respected contrarian investor, compared in a recent Forbes blog post to vultures swooping ...
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Republican Presidential Candidates Win Climate BS of the Year Award
PlanetSave.com
Both the paper and the testimony received lavish attention from climate contrarians (including an especially absurd piece from the Heartland Institute, published as a Forbesblog post) and both were extensively and surgically debunked by the scientific ...
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Delivering the cloud business agenda
Financial Times
According to a recent study by KPMG and Forbes Insights (Clarity in the cloud: Aglobal study of the business adoption of cloud), more than 80 per cent of businesses are already either planning, experimenting with, or implementing some form of cloud ...
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Obama unveils strategy for slimmed-down military
USA TODAY
"Our strategy has always been about our ability to respond to globalcontingencies wherever and whenever they happen," Dempsey said. "This does not change." Rep. Randy Forbes, a Virginia Republican who chairs a committee on military readiness, ...
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USA TODAY
Nokia bets on smart devices to tap into high-end market
Jakarta Post
Sales of the Nokia Lumia abroad have not set the world alight. Forbesreported in December that, based on a BNP Paribas survey, only 2 percent of Europeans were interested in purchasing the smartphone. The share of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 in ...
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Jakarta Post
A Guide to the New Hampshire Debates
FactCheck.org
The ad cites a Forbes editorial, which compared one part of Romney's plan — not “parts of it” — to Obama's policies. The part? Romney's “support for a weak dollar policy.” Specifically, Forbes opposes Romney's promise to sanction China for unfair ...
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Obama speaks about the Defense Strategic Review at the Pentagon in Washington ...
Daily Press
Randy Forbes, R-Chesapeake, said the administration settled on budget cuts first, then devised a strategy to meet that goal. Obama, Panetta and others insisted it was the other way around: Their strategy came first, and it will work best against future ...
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Daily Press
Place Trade CEO, Sarah Place, Quoted in SmartMoney Magazine
PR.com (press release)
Sarah has been honored to be included in ABC 11 Eyewitness News, AOL.com, Bankrate.com, CNBC.com, Consumer Reports Money Adviser, Forbes.com, Fox News Radio, SmartMoney - The Wall Street Journal Magazine and Yahoo! Finance as well as being featured in ...
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Black American income inequality
Milwaukee Courier Weekly Newspaper
According to the US Department of Commerce and the US Census Bureau, in 2010-2011, the poverty rate in the US reached its highest level since 1933 while the Forbes 400, an annual listing of America's richest individuals inflation-adjusted net worth, ...
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Milwaukee Courier Weekly Newspaper
Public Storage Announces Pricing of 5.90% Cumulative Preferred Shares of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Public Storage, a member of the S&P 500, The Forbes Global 2000 and FT Global 500, is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust that primarily acquires, develops, owns and operates self-storage facilities. ...
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When the Wealthy Dig Deep for a Cause, Look Out for the Influence They Purchase
Jakarta Globe
The ultimate goal is to enlist all 400 of Forbes's wealthiest Americans, which would amount to $600 billion in pledges. With coordination, this kind of money can change theworld, but in what way? Generous philanthropic gifts in public policy areas can ...
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Cobra Electronics Kicks Off Another Year of Excitement and Innovation in ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Consumer Electronics Association, Forbes and Deloitte & Touche have all recognized Cobra for the company's innovation and industry leadership. To learn more about Cobra Electronics, please visit the Cobra site at www.cobra.com . ...
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Removal of Fuel Subsidy in Nigeria: What You Need To Know
Modern Ghana
The result is that subsidy money goes into unproductive side of the economy encouraging the production of pure water billionaires like those rated from Nigeria by Forbes. These people are opportunists who end up sponsoring Boko Haram, Hajj, ...
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Modern Ghana
April in January (nearly 900 record highs in the last week; subzero by Jan. 17 ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
Climate scientist Peter Gleick has the honors at forbes.com: "The Earth's climate continued to change during 2011 – a year in which unprecedented combinations of extreme weather events killed people and damaged property around the world. ...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
dbaDIRECT Names Steven A. Knight Chief Information Security and Risk Officer
Insurance News Net (press release)
The company manages thousands of infrastructure components for customers worldwide, many of which are Fortune 1000 and Forbes Private 500 firms. Its international Data Operations Center is headquartered in Greater Cincinnati . ...
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Incorporation of Subsidiary
4-traders (press release)
To date, Boustead has undertaken infrastructure-related projects in 79 countriesglobally. In 2008 and 2009, Boustead was recognised in the prestigious Forbes Asia 200 Best Under A Billion as one of the Asia Pacific's 200 best public-listed ...
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Success is going off the scale for Ally
Aberdeen Press and Journal
Ally, who has teamed up with musician Donald Forbes, from Inverness, also performs under the name Red Hook Rapids and have recently supported musical luminaries including the Lush Rollers. To post a comment, please login using the form at the top of...
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Top 10 events in 2011 at Zhongguancun
China Daily
Baidu ranks No 1 on Forbes magazine's "Top 10 Internet Websites outside the United States". Sina Corporation is listed at No 6. BOE Technology's 8.5G TFT-LCD line begins mass production in September, illustrating the Chinese mainland has the ability to ...
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Place Trade CEO, Launches Place Tax to Offer Discount Tax Preparation Services
PR.com (press release)
Sarah has been honored to be included in ABC 11 Eyewitness News, AOL.com, Bankrate.com, CNBC.com, Consumer Reports Money Adviser, Forbes.com, Fox News Radio, SmartMoney - The Wall Street Journal Magazine and Yahoo! Finance as well as being featured in ...
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2012 feared to see leadership shortages
inAudit
The “Talent Edge 2020” survey series is conducted in collaboration withForbes Insights to identify important trends driving corporate talent strategies and track how companies are responding to shifting economic realities. ...
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inAudit
Clean Energy Innovation Roundup (1-6-2012)
Innovation Policy Blog (blog)
Forbes highlights 12 clean tech projects currently under development and demonstration through DOD's Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP). These projects hold the possibility of spinning off into breakthrough commercial ...
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Business Matters: EMI Sues Grooveshark (Again), Pandora Takes Longview, Sirius ...
Billboard.biz
Fast Company's theoretical pairing of Pandora and Spotify came on the same dayForbes.com ran a piece that called Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek "the most important man in music." With so much attention on sexy Spotify, non-interactive webcasting can...
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5 Stocks Investors Are Buying Like Crazy
Seeking Alpha
Ford Motor Company has been moving up, a new article from Forbes suggests that Ford's business is rapidly improving. KPMG surveyed 200 top-level auto executives, and the general consensus appears to be that Ford is back on the rise. ...
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Analysts Air Concerns Over Salesforce.com's Outlook
IT Business Edge (blog)
Writing for Forbes, the Trefis analysts say that while Salesforce applications offer more functionality, Zoho's lower pricing "could help Zoho attract small and medium-sized businesses that are much more cost-conscious than their enterprise ...
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Comex Gold Dips Sharply On Global Economic News ... - Forbes
(Kitco News) - Comex February gold futures lost nearly 2% of their intrinsic value Wednesday, responding to bearish news from Europe, China and India, which ...
www.forbes.com/.../comex-gold-dips-sharply-on-global-econ...
Why The Web And Global Financial Systems Need Female ... - Forbes
By Twain Liup (Founder, Senseus) The global financial crisis is causing $100+ trillion of... The World's Most Powerful People .... Women 2.0's News Stream ...
www.forbes.com/.../why-the-web-and-global-financial-system...
MF Global Fight Unites Onetime Rivals - Forbes
But that has changed since MF Global collapsed on Oct. 31. ... Forbes writers have the ability to call out member comments they find ... Emily's News Stream ...
www.forbes.com/sites/.../mf-global-fight-unites-onetime-rivals...
Finding Big Foot, Finding Global Warming - Forbes
I write about energy and environment issues, frequently focusing on global warming. I have presented environmental analysis on CNN, CNN Headline News , ...
www.forbes.com/.../finding-big-foot-finding-global-warming/
New Rules for Radicals, #2 -- "The Moment" - Forbes
An even larger part of the world has been [. ... The fact that the world was watching — and much of it celebrating — civilian uprisings .... Giovanni's News Stream ...
www.forbes.com/sites/.../new-rules-for-radicals-2-the-moment/
This Just In: CommTouch Says Internet Threats On The Rise - Forbes
Forbes writers have the ability to call out member comments they find ... Entrepreneur,global nomad, cocktail detective, distance swimmer, news & tech junkie, ...
www.forbes.com/.../this-jus-in-commtouch-says-internet-threat...
News International and the Charlotte Church Countdown ... - Forbes
Earlier this year The Guardian aided in killing off The Sun's sister, Sunday, paper, theNews of the World. By informing the world that the voice mails on Milly ...
www.forbes.com/.../news-international-and-the-charlotte-chur...
2012 Prediction No. 9: App Overload Sets In - Forbes
Illustration: Calder Global Networks This is one of a series of 2012 predictions I'm making for Internet media and ... + Follow on Forbes .... Robert's News Stream ...
www.forbes.com/.../2012-prediction-no-9-app-overload-sets-i...
News Analysis: Lithium Technologies Adds $53M in ... - Forbes
The World's Most Powerful People ... + Follow on Forbes · Tech. |. 1/05/2012 @ 9 24AM. News Analysis: Lithium Technologies Adds $53M in Financing ...
www.forbes.com/.../news-analysis-lithium-technologies-adds-5...
  
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