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FORBES News, Apr 06, 2012

Visible Technologies Acquires Cymfony to Expand Global Product Offering
MarketWatch (press release)
Combined with the dynamic social monitoring and analytics platform, strong recent growth, and expanded partnerships of Visible, the new company will double in size and continue to service Forbes Global 2000 businesses in a variety of industries, ...
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Visiting Shanghai, SABIC CEO Sees Easing China Growth As A Good Thing
Forbes
SABIC's total sales last year reached $50 billion; the company is a memberForbes Global 2000 List. Besides putting SABIC closer than ever to Chinese customers, the new Shanghai technology center will help the Saudi company attract top global talent ...
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Could You Work for Jeff Bezos?
Forbes
Its global workforce now exceeds 50000 employees — and jobs are open in 53 departments, including account management and website production. Before you start imagining yourself on Team Bezos, however, take this diagnostic quiz.
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Forbes
'Forbes Israel' Ranks Wealthiest Jews
HispanicBusiness.com
Oracle Corporation co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison is the world's wealthiest Jew, with a fortune of $36 billion in 2012, according to "Forbes Israel". He is followed by casino operator Sheldon Adelson, with $24.9 billion (14th place overall); ...
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HispanicBusiness.com
It's also more friendly in the PHL, global survey says
GMA News
The poll, conducted by Skyscanner.com and whose results were published onForbes.com, ranked the Philippines among the top three places as “having least rude locals,” the other two being the Caribbean and Brazil, the characterization also interpreted ...
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Best Ways To Stop Bullying, Combat Child Sex Trade And End Homelessness? Ask A...
Forbes
Girls are joining together, shaking things up and creating a global force of positive change. It's a GirlQuake. The platform can be the kitchen table or the Today Show. Size doesn't matter. Because my mission is to amplify the voices of girls and women ...
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Arma 3 'Stratis' Teaser Looks Amazing
Forbes
“But when a key radar facility drops off the grid, a Greek flashpoint risks escalating into global conflict. “Caught up in a situation beyond their control, a botched withdrawal traps men of the US 7th Infantry Division and a clandestine group of UKSF ...
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Forbes
The Spotlights Glare As Ingredients Take Center Stage
MediaPost Communications
by Thom Forbes, 2 hours ago Back in the day, you could sell tons of food by convincing consumers in a mindless but compelling way that it was, as Armour did with its hot dogs, fun to eat. Not very many of us were questioning what went into those ...
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When Malaria Bug resists its Best Antidote
Forbes India (blog)
When the first-line treatment of a disease that kills close to 0.7 million people (655000 in 2010, over one per minute, to be precise according to the World Malaria Report) shows cracks, then the full force of the global biomedical community is needed.
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Forbes India (blog)
French take top spots at the GCT opening class
Gulf Times
French rider Roger-Yves Bost electrified the opening Five star class of theGlobal Champions Tour 2012 season in Doha, Qatar winning the first leg in super quick time here yesterday. The world's top riders kicked off the battle for the crown of the ...
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Kyocera Acquires LCD Manufacturer Optrex
PCBDesign007
During the year ended March 31, 2011, the company's net sales totaled 1.27 trillion yen (approx. USD 15.3 billion). The company is ranked #604 on Forbes magazine's 2011 “Global 2000” listing of the world's largest publicly traded companies.
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PCBDesign007
French riders dominate in opening event of Champions Tour of Qatar
Qatar Soccer
THE three-day Global Champions Tour got underway attracting large number of spectators keen to see the best riders in the world competing at the Racing & Equestrian Club in Rayyan on Thursday. French rider Roger-Yves Bost won the opening CSI 5* event ...
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Adi Ignatius | The Web is not a great publishing platform
Livemint
Not Fortune not Forbes. That's really the differentiator. But we decided to have a mix. In the old days, anything with value had to be long. But something that could help you could be an infographic, an opinion column or a number that is revealing.
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Economic Freedom Is Surging in Chile
Heritage.org (blog)
Led since 2010 by President Sebastian Piñera's center-right Alianza coalition (one of only two elected center-right governments currently in office in South America), Chile's global leadership in economic freedom has been built over many decades on the ...
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Heritage.org (blog)
Family Ties To Marriott Heirs Pay Off For Romney
WBUR
From that humble beginning arose a global hospitality empire. The company is no longer in the restaurant business, but there are now more than 3000 hotels bearing the Marriott name. That growth was due in large part to JW Marriott Jr., known as Bill, ...
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Follow the money. The morality of green funding
The Commentator
The think tank in question is Lord Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation. On the day the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed by Princeton's leading physics professor questioning the credibility of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), ...
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The Commentator
Make a difference, then a profit: building startups that do social good
VentureBeat
Just take a look at Better World Books, which has donated millions to global literacy initiatives since launching in 2002. Based in Indiana, the company is a reminder that innovation is springing up outside the typical tech zones.
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VentureBeat
The 99 Percent Spring – OpEd
Eurasia Review
The 400 wealthiest individuals on the Forbes 400 list have more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. These trends among the 1 percent are bad for the rest of us. Concentrated wealth translates into political clout — the power to use campaign ...
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Small-Cap Ideas with Double-Digit Growth Potential: Frederick "Rick" Wise
NASDAQ
FW: Yes, I think the large-cap mature companies are moving past many of the obvious negatives and challenges, and are extremely well positioned to show some positive sales and operating leverage as the global economy gradually recovers.
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John Bolton, a former US ambassador to the United Nations, spoke Wednesday ...
Lawrence Journal World
PNAC's web site said it was "established in the spring of 1997" as "a non-profit, educational organization whose goal is to promote American global leadership." PNAC's policy document, "Rebuilding America's Defences," openly advocated for total USA...
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EPA's new farcical carbon mandate
Washington Examiner
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson trumpets the agency's efforts assisting working-class Americans, who, she states, are disproportionately imperiled byglobal warming. Politically correct posturing aside, soaring energy costs also disproportionately harm ...
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Tom Sutcliffe: Death of a Duchess is truly dreadful
The Independent
So it was intriguing the other day to see that Forbes had reported that globalearnings for Andrew Stanton's film had just surpassed its original production budget of $250m. It's hardly out of the woods yet. But the fact that the film was the box ...
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Special Report Info
Russia Profile
Russia's economy used to grow at eight percent a year between 1998 and 2008 before the global financial crisis happened, and then there was a contraction. “Since then its economic record has been between 3.5 and four percent—even with oil prices going ...
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2012 Organizational Rankings: #1 — NY Yankees
FanGraphs (blog)
Forbes estimates the franchise's current value at $1.85 billion, easily the highest in the game. The YES Network generates huge revenue and is the regional network all others strive to be, although the Yankees technically only own ~33% of their ...
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Population Decline Causing Political Upheaval in Asia
LifeNews.com
by CFAM Staff | New York, NY | LifeNews.com | 4/5/12 4:12 PM New York, NY (LifeNews/CFAM) — The global fertility freefall is about to cause geopolitical upheaval in Asia, a panel of experts said this week. The experts, all contributors to the new book ...
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LifeNews.com
First Asset SVP John Stephenson to Appear on Tim Connolly's Winning Strategies ...
PR.com (press release)
Mr. Stephenson also writes a free bi-weekly investment newsletter, Money Focus, which reaches a global audience of more than 125000 (www.reportonmoney.com). He is regularly quoted by Bloomberg News, Reuters, The Associated Press, The Wall Street ...
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Domino's Pizza to Consumers: We're Saying 'No' for You!
Sacramento Bee
Domino's Pizza had global retail sales of over $6.9 billion in 2011, comprised of over $3.4 billion domestically and over $3.5 billion internationally. In May 2011, Pizza Today named Domino's its "Chain of the Year" for the second straight year ...
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Global Payments Data Breach Exposes Card Payments - Forbes
Cardholders around the world received a shock late last week when Global ....Sign up to follow your favorite billionaire and get news alerts delivered right to ...
www.forbes.com/.../global-payments-data-breach-exposes-car...
Chipotle's Ells, Liberty Global's Fries make Forbes' top 100 for CEO ...
Chipotle Mexican Grill's Steve Ells and Liberty Global's Michael Fries are in...
www.bizjournals.com/.../chipotles-ells-liberty-globals.html
Caught Between MF Global And The Tax Man
By Robert A. Green, CPA, CEO of GreenTraderTax.com Jon Corzine, former CEO of MF Global, testifies before the House Agriculture Committee about the...
www.forbes.com/.../caught-between-mf-global-and-the-tax-m...
The Focus of Corporate Philanthropy – Forbes | Global Health Hub ...
Global Health Hub: news and blogosphere aggregator · Home · Infectious Disease ... The Focus of Corporate Philanthropy – Forbes. By Humanosphere Social ...
www.globalhealthhub.org/.../the-focus-of-corporate-philanthr...
Societe Generale Private Banking and Forbes Insights Analyse Global
Study of global wealth and family ties, by Forbes Insights and Societe Generale Private Banking.
eon.businesswire.com/.../societe-generale-private-banking
Societe Generale Private Banking And Forbes Insights analyse Global
Societe Generale Private Banking and Forbes Insights have published “GlobalWealth and Family Ties”, a global study of the impact of family ties in the creation, ...
www.privatebanking.societegenerale.com/.../and-forbes-insigh...
We did well despite global crisis: StanChart's N Swaroop - Forbes ...
Standard Chartered's Neeraj Swaroop tells Forbes India about how the bank grew under his watch despite the slowdown.
www.moneycontrol.com/.../we-did-well-despite-global-crisis-s...
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