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FORBES News, Mar 23, 2012

The 10 Best Digital Tools for Entrepreneurs in 2012
Forbes
As the global economy writhes and rattles, entrepreneurship has ever more clearly emerged as the solution to economic recovery. Young startups not only create nearly two thirds of America's new jobs, they also bring forth innovation that often ...
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Forbes Profile: Jim Yong Kim, Obama's Nominee To Lead World Bank
Forbes
Through decades of work in global health he has proved that patients previously written off as untreatable can be cared for successfully even in the poorest settings. While at the Harvard Medical School in 1987 his study of infectious diseases took an ...
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Obama's Surprising World Bank Choice: Health Care as a Human Right
Forbes
A physician and expert in tuberculosis, he served as Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine and Chair of the Department ofGlobal Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. But it's his stature as the co-founder of Partners In Health ...
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Forbes
InterContinental Plans Upscale Hotels With Chinese Characteristics
Forbes
“Creating a brand that genuinely stands for something, that delivers time and time again, is not easy,” Solomons told FORBES. Eventually IHG plans to goglobal with its new brand, tapping into demand from Chinese travellers who know the brand and hold ...
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Headwinds holding back US recovery: Steve Forbes
TODAYonline
... suddenly get very defensive about reserving the value of what you have instead of investing in the future," said Mr Forbes, who was in Singapore today to speak at the Global Leaders Series organised by the American Chamber of Commerce Singapore.
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Lujiazui Breakfast: News And Views About China Stocks -- March 23
Forbes
The company, whose market capitalization is $64 million, is a one-time member of Forbes Asia's Best Under A Billion list. Although global markets were unsettled yesterday, two IPOs in domestically traded small-cap stocks that had a good debut a day ...
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Kraft By Any Other Name Not As Sweet?
MediaPost Communications
by Thom Forbes, 6 hours ago Perhaps the most comprehensible rationale proffered over the past few days for Kraft's decision to rename its global snack company Mondelez International, Inc. is that the domain name Mondelez.com was available.
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Stable US dollar needed for economic growth: Forbes
Straits Times
The world economy will not be able to grow vibrantly until the United States stops printing money and depressing the US dollar, said media mogul Steve Forbes (above) at the American Chambers' Global Leaders Series on Friday. -- ST PHOTO: LAU FOOK KONG ...
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Straits Times
Obama's World Bank Pick, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Links Global Health and Economic ...
TIME
Obama's nomination of Kim, who would be the first doctor to lead the World Bank, underscores the critical link between globalmedicine and economic development. A physician and anthropologist, Kim, 52, became the first Asian-American to lead an Ivy ...
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TIME
Harvard Professor Slams Obama's World Bank Nomination
Forbes
Forbes ran a recent profile of him here. In the World Bank's 68-year history, the US has always nominated the president, who must be voted on by the Bank's 25-member executive board. This year, Angola, South Africa and Nigeria nominated a competing ...
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Africa to Kony 2012: Stop Treating Us Like Victims
Huffington Post
As I recently noted in my controversial Forbes post, "Kony 2012 Filmmaker, Jason Russell, Becomes The Spectacle, Lessons In Atrocity Tourism," the genius of Atrocity Tourism is that it allows guilty westerners to safely shower compassion on faraway ...
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After FedEx And Oracle, Reading The Earnings Season Tea Leaves (VIDEO)
Forbes
In Thursday's Forbes Markets Desk video, Investing Editor Matt Schifrin and I discussed what recent reports from FedEx and Oracle may signal for April's big batch of first-quarter results, and whether a rallying market can clear the earnings season ...
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Rugby tries to cash in on global appeal
WPTZ The Champlain Valley
"There's more to sports than just the players on the field -- there's the financial funding," said DJ Forbes, the captain of the New Zealand Sevens. "If a sponsorship deal is held in high esteem, potential sponsors are going be sure the money they ...
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McDonald's Recipe For Success Brought New CEO To The Table
Forbes
... President and COO of McDonald's in January 2010, which put him in charge of global strategy and operations for more than 33000 McDonald's restaurants in 119 countries. A company spokesperson declined FORBES' request for an interview with Thompson.
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Beijing's pay-for-media-play
MinnPost.com
By Cain Nunns, Global Post | 08:38 am TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwanese news coverage is the best money can buy, says National Taiwan University journalism lecturer Chang Chin-hua. It's just too bad for the island's democratic credentials that she was ...
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Myers Industries Named One of America's Most Trustworthy Companies by Forbes
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
The analysis was conducted for Forbes by GMI Ratings (GMI), a leading independent provider of global corporate governance ratings; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) ratings; and accounting risk ratings and research on public companies.
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GM Rao: Fighting For His Dreams
Forbes India
In January this year, GMR Infrastructure, the eponymous company founded by Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao (Forbes global billionaire ranking 683), issued a statement vehemently denying that it was taking on a $2 billion loan to fund the acquisition of ...
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Forbes India
Stockhouse Movers & Shakers: Why mine financier's strategy includes Larry King
Stockhouse
As the global expansion of his Toronto resource group unfolds, Stan Bharti finds that it helps to be hanging out with someone as instantly recognizable as talk show host Larry King. In an era when coveted resource assets are increasingly being found in ...
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Cognizant Opens New Development Center in Singapore
Sacramento Bee
With over 50 delivery centers worldwide and approximately 137700 employees as of December 31, 2011, Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest ...
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A big-picture look at gold and the market
MarketWatch
Mary Anne & Pamela Aden are well-known analysts and editors of The Aden Forecast, a monthly investment newsletter that specializes in the US andglobal stock markets, the precious metals and foreign exchange markets and US and international interest ...
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Kraft renames its snack division 'Mondelez'
Daily Mail
'If you have to provide a phonetic spelling of your new brand name when releasing it to the public, you're in big trouble,' a Forbes.com columnist opined. 'When the pronunciation isn't accessible, it looks bad. It's not intuitive,' Nina Beckhardt, ...
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Daily Mail
NS: Seaforth Energy secures $2 million venture capital investment
The Burnside News
Hubert Legge, left, and Earl Gouthro of Seaforth Energy in Dartmouth work on the lattice tower of a windmill being installed atForbes Lake this winter. SUEANN MUSICK – THE NEWS By Staff, The Daily Business Buzz [HALIFAX, NS] – Seaforth Energy Inc., ...
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The Burnside News
Jim Yong Kim, World Bank Nominee, Gets Mostly Positive Response
Huffington Post
He was the director of the HIV/AIDS department at the World Health Organization (WHO), a co-founder with Paul Farmer of the global non-profit Partners in Health and helped drastically reduce the incidence of tuberculosis in Peru.
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Jim Yong Kim, World Bank Nominee, Gets Mostly Positive Response
Huffington Post
He was the director of the HIV/AIDS department at the World Health Organization (WHO), a co-founder with Paul Farmer of the global non-profit Partners in Health and helped drastically reduce the incidence of tuberculosis in Peru.
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Nine Win Collegiate Reporting Prize Trip to Japan
MarketWatch (press release)
"Today's journalists are expected to have a global understanding of the events they cover, and there is no better way to understand outside cultures than to experience them in person," said Dr. Hamm. "These nine students will get to learn about ...
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Economic voice with two accents
China Daily
In a two-day trip to Beijing last year, the schedule for the managing director and chairwoman of global markets at JP Morgan in Hong Kong was packed. In an hour's time, she conducted two phone conferences with JP Morgan's London office on a report ...
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China Daily
ZOLL X Series Monitor/Defibrillator Granted 510(k) Clearance by U.S. Food and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
A NASDAQ Global Select company and a three-time Forbes 100 Most Trustworthy Company, ZOLL was designated in 2011 as one of Forbes Top 100 Small Public Companies in America with annual revenues under $1 billion. ZOLL develops and manufactures its ...
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Is Education the Fuel We Need for a Renewable Future?
RenewableEnergyWorld.com
According to Forbes contributor James Marshall Crotty in an interview with Pace Global Energy Services CEO Tim Sutherland, manufacturing CEOs claim that there aren't enough students with STEM skills to fill the US need for technologically savvy workers ...
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Giant Angry Bird lands on Space Needle
kgw.com
But according to Forbes, Rovio said it is just an "art installation" and wouldn't be going anywhere. In the early morning hours Thursday, workers attached the red banners to the side of the Space Needle. Peter Vesterbacka, the creator of "Angry Birds," ...
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Pop & Circumstance: Nicki Minaj signs Pepsi deal; a look back at past pop ...
Denver Post
As reported by Forbes, Nicki Minaj will become the new face of Pepsi within the next two months. The multi-million dollar commercial (a few seconds of which have already leaked) was filmed in Argentina last month. Derek Jackson, the Glu agency chief in ...
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Denver Post
Holy Week also cleanses the environment
Inquirer.net
Forbes wrote that Brown “wants to put an end to animal farming, or at least put a significant dent in our global hunger for cows, pigs and chickens.” According to Brown, “while livestock accounts for only 9 percent of human-caused carbon dioxide ...
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GM-Peugeot create executive committee to oversee alliance
MLive.com
29 in an effort to save money and make the two companies more competitive in the global market -- particularly Europe. The alliance will focus on small and midsize cars, multi-purpose vehicles and crossovers, according to officials.
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MLive.com
5 things you could buy if you sold the Toronto Maple Leafs
GlobalNews.ca
According to Forbes, the Leafs are worth $521 million, making the team the most lucrative franchise in hockey. While money like that goes a long way when it comes to keeping and obtaining talent, Global News takes a light-hearted look at five random ...
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World Bank MD Arrives Today to Review Liberia's Political, Economic Issues
Liberian Daily Observer
She has received numerous honors and awards, including Euro money Magazine's Global Finance Minister of the Year, and Emerging Markets Best Finance Minister in Asia. She has also been regularly on Forbes List of the 100 Most Powerful Women.
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Mississippi Court Ends Global-Warming Suit - Forbes
Those reasons are becoming familiar in global-warming cases: Guirola ruled the ... Before that I worked for Bloomberg Business News in Houston and the late, ...
www.forbes.com/.../mississippi-court-ends-global-warming-sui...
Dragging America Into Court: Law of the Sea and Global ... - Forbes
Dragging America Into Court: Law of the Sea and Global Litigation ... mineral production; ambiguous language in the new version could yield the same outcome, ...
www.forbes.com/.../dragging-america-into-court-law-of-the-se...
Scientists Call For Stronger Global Governance To Address ... - Forbes
Stronger global governance is needed to mitigate human impacts on the earth's ... Sign up to follow your favorite billionaire and get news alerts delivered right to ...
www.forbes.com/.../scientists-call-for-stronger-global-governa...
9 OCers on Forbes' Global List of Billionaires | Orange County ...
Forbes' latest list of billionaires included nine people from Orange County.
www.ocbj.com/news/.../9-ocers-forbes-global-list-billionaires/
The Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers Are Struggling ... - Forbes
His Friedberg Global-Macro Hedge Fund returned 40.84% and Friedberg landed in the 34th position on Forbes' list of the 40 Highest-Earning Hedge Fund ...
www.forbes.com/.../the-highest-earning-hedge-fund-managers...
Global Investing: Emerging Markets - Forbes
+ Follow on Forbes ... On a global basis, middle class is an income of about $2000 annually (40th to 60th percentile). ... News; People; Places; Companies...
www.forbes.com/sites/.../global-investing-emerging-markets/
Vaccine Debate Acknowledged, Explained at Global ... - Forbes
Vaccine Debate Acknowledged, Explained at Global Conference .... affected by their vaccinations should give us all pause. http://www.ebcala.org/news/video...
www.forbes.com/.../vaccine-debate-acknowledged-explained-...
They Unblinded Me With Science - Forbes
Latest News ». Forbes began ranking the World's Billionaires 25 years ago. Today the list is bigger than ever and still the definitive guide to global wealth.
www.forbes.com/sites/.../03/.../they-unblinded-me-with-scienc...
State of the News Media 2012: Tech companies 'control the ... - Forbes
That's one of the take-aways from the 2012 State of the News Media report, released today ... Forbes 400 Richest Americans · Global 2000 Leading Companies ...
www.forbes.com/.../tech-companies-control-the-future-of-new...
Mondelez? Puh-LEEZE!
Kraft just announced that it is going to rebrand its global snacks company Mondelez. ... One thing which happens with the worldwide web and round-the-clock news cycle ... Forbes writers have the ability to call out member comments they find ...
www.forbes.com/sites/jesscollen/2012/.../mondelez-puh-leeze/
Gaming Giant M.A.R. Barker Dead At 83 - Forbes
Latest News ». Forbes began ranking the World's Billionaires 25 years ago. Today the list ...
www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/.../mar-barker-dies-tekumel/
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