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FORBES News, Apr 27, 2012

Aflac Ranks 214 on 2012 Forbes Global 2000 List
MarketWatch (press release)
COLUMBUS, Ga., April 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Aflac, the number one provider of supplemental insurance in the United States, serving more than 50 million people worldwide, is ranked number 214 on the 2012Forbes Global 2000 list of the ...
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Forbes Earnings Preview: Hertz Global
Forbes
By Narrative Science After Hertz Global Holdings (HTZ) experienced a loss of -3 cents a year ago, analysts predict positive news when the company reports this year's first quarter numbers on Wednesday, May 2, 2012. They expect a profit of one cent a ...
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Forbes Earnings Preview: MasterCard
Forbes
One of MasterCard's main competitors in the it services industry, Visa (V), will report earnings on May 2, 2012. Other competitors in the information technology sector include: Fidelity National Information Services (FIS), Green Dot (GDOT), and Global ...
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Forbes Earnings Preview: IntercontinentalExchange
Forbes
IntercontinentalExchange is a regulated global futures exchange and over-the-counter market operator. One of IntercontinentalExchange's main competitors in the diversified financial services industry is Bank of America (BAC). Other competitors in the ...
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Wal-Mart Clan Recovers $2.1 Billion, Adelson Down $780 Million
Forbes
In our third day of tracking the wealth of 50 global billionaires via the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires list, casino king Sheldon Adelson took a hit, while the Walton family bounced back. Even a pervasive Mexican bribery scandal couldn't keep Wal-Mart ...
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Forbes
Wells Fargo Is Buying Another Prime Brokerage Business
Forbes
In September the bank agreed to acquire Cargill Inc.'s hedge-fund administration and middle-office service provider, LaCrosse Global Fund Services. Bank Of America's prime brokerage business is under the Merrill Lynch umbrella, and JPMorgan Chase ...
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Billionaire Stefano Pessina On His 1500 Deals Including Europe's Biggest LBO
Forbes
Pessina, who is worth $2.6 billion, sat down with Forbes last week to talk about his success, the deal that made him famous, his tips for other entrepreneurs and why he's not done yet. A nuclear engineer, he joined his father's ailing pharmaceutical ...
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comScore validated Campaign Essentials(TM) (vCE) Gets Global Adoption from ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Leading publishers to adopt vCE include Microsoft and Forbes. "GRPs must be truly cross-media comparable if digital is ever going to effectively compete with TV for ad dollars. While viewability is indeed a critical component of campaign delivery and ...
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Coming Soon to Your Town: Sequestration Road Tour
TIME (blog)
Randy Forbes is planning a road tour to detail the damage sequestration would do to the nation's defenses Americans will celebrate Memorial Day next month, and honor those who've died while serving to protect the rest of us. But some concerned members ...
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TIME (blog)
Forbes Travel Guide Launches In Shanghai, China
Asia Media Journal
SHANGHAI, April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Forbes Travel Guide, the originators of the prestigious Five-Star ratings program in the US, added Shanghai, China as its newest global destination. This announcement is marked by the addition of two properties, ...
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Forbes Earnings Preview: Becton Dickinson
Forbes
Becton, Dickinson & Company is a global medical technology company engaged in the development, manufacture, and sale of medical devices, instrument systems, and reagents. One of Becton Dickinson's main competitors in the healthcare equipment and ...
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Forbes Earnings Preview: Marsh & McLennan
Forbes
Marsh & McLennan is a global professional services firm that provides solutions in the areas of risk, strategy and human capital. One of Marsh's main competitors in the insurance industry, Aon (AON), will report earnings on May 4, 2012.
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Eco Crowd Growing Desperate—and Dangerous
Global Warming (blog)
by Matt Patterson on April 27, 2012 The climate scaremongers are losing the public relations battle on global warming—and it's driving them absolutely batty. Take eco-warrior Steve Zwick. Writing for FORBES Zwick calls on so-called “climate deniers ...
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Global Warming (blog)
Forbes Earnings Preview: Biogen Idec
Forbes
Biogen Idec is a global biotechnology company that meets the needs of therapeutic care providers and recipients. One of Biogen Idec's main competitors in the biotechnology industry is Amgen (AMGN). Other competitors in the healthcare sector include: ...
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Shares In China Electronics Retail Titan Suning Tumble As Profit Disappoints
Forbes
Suning's report is just the last in a slew of mixed news from a Chinese industry that global retailers have been looking to for growth and profit amid slow growth in the US and Europe. In Hong Kong trading today, shares in Suning's main offline rival ...
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Provident New York Bancorp Named One of America's Most Trustworthy Companies
Citybizlist (press release)
... parent company of Provident Bank, has been named one of America's 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in an annual survey commissioned by Forbesand prepared by GovernanceMetrics International (GMI), a global leader in corporate governance.
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Investors licking lips over auction of Russian state assets
NASDAQ
Forbes reports on Monday that the list of state assets to be privatized will soon be released by the Russian government. The government has announced that it will auction the assets off to bidders in June of this year. The move would be a vote of ...
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A primer on hotel categories and star ratings
CBS News
Forbes is notoriously selective, giving five stars to just 59 hotels around the world and four stars to 176 properties. AAA's rating system uses diamonds rather than stars — http://www.AAA.com/Diamonds — and is also widely known.
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Internap Reports First Quarter 2012 Financial Results
Sacramento Bee
By Internap Network Services Corporation Announces launch of Agile Hosting offering, a global on-demand hosting service and self-service configurator. Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a leading provider of IT infrastructure ...
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Cobra Electronics Reports Increased First Quarter Results
MarketWatch (press release)
CHICAGO, April 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Cobra Electronics Corporation (NASDAQ:COBR) , a leading global designer and marketer of mobile communications and navigation products, today reported net income of $339000, or $0.05 per share, ...
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Internap Reports First Quarter 2012 Financial Results
MarketWatch (press release)
Announces launch of Agile Hosting offering, a global on-demand hosting service and self-service configurator. Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ:INAP) , a leading provider of IT infrastructure services, today announced financial results for ...
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How Much Extra Would You Pay for a Self-Driving Car?
Slate Magazine (blog)
A picture taken on January 8, 2011 in Bailleul, northern France, shows a car using a Global Positioning System on the highway A25. A new law in France came into force on January 5, 2012 for anyone driving in France, which bans the use of equipment that ...
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RP coco sugar exports up
Tempo
The 2010 export figure itself was phenomenal, Forbes said, since it represented a 224.2 percent increase from the 11200 kilos sold overseas the previous year. “The increase in coco sap sugar exports was driven by globalhealth concerns, ...
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Aflac Incorporated to Webcast, Live, at RetailInvestorConferences.com on May 3rd
NEWS.GNOM.ES (press release)
In addition, Forbes magazine has named Aflac as one of America's Best-Managed Companies in the Insurance category. In 2011, Fortune magazine recognized Aflac as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in America for the thirteenth consecutive year ...
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Outsider Ren pits Huawei against the world
iT News
Sixteen years later, Ren was listed among Forbes' 400 richest Chinese and Huawei was one of the world's largest telecoms gear vendors, but the United States still treated him as an outsider. He was keen to win customers like AT&T, Verizon and Sprint ...
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Article One Partners Names Peter Vanderheyden as Chief Product Officer
Technology Digital (press release)
The company is a partner to 16 Fortune 100 companies, 50 Forbes Global2000 and 7 of the top 10 US patent filers. AOP's client satisfaction rate exceeds 90%. AOP has a distinguished Board, led by Marshall Phelps, the former head of patents and ...
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The Morning Download: Google in Overdrive
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Citigroup Global CTO Antonio Benjamin took the stage at a Silicon Valley confab to share some impressive stats, among them: Citi repels 40000 attacks on its system every day; it operates 10 regional processing centers, each the size of a few football ...
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Gore and the Democrats' Green Graft Machine
American Thinker
According to a Forbes April 21, 1997 account of the scandal: Al Gore helped send the stock flying when he called Molten Metal "a shining example of American ingenuity." Sound familiar? Who can forget President Obama's iconic May 2010 speech touting ...
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Blackbaud And Convio Announce Early Termination Of HSR Waiting Period In ...
TheStreet.com (press release)
Recognized as a top company by Forbes, InformationWeek, and Software Magazine and honored by Best Places to Work, Blackbaud is headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina and has employees throughout the US, and in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Mexico, ...
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Coco sap sugar exports up by 92.78% in 2011
Philippine Information Agency
Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) Administrator Euclides G. Forbes has announced a 92.78 percent increase in 2011 exports volume of coco sap sugar with 70000 kilograms (km) compared with 36310 km in 2010. In a statement posted on the Department of ...
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Romney's Environmental Experts Know Too Much About The Environment To Destroy It
Ology
by Evan McMurry Forbes has an article up from Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute about Mitt Romney's environmental team, and man is he scared to death that they're...too environmentalist? Yup. A rundown of potential heads of the EPA and Secretary ...
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Drugmakers give swine flu vaccines a second shot
Zee News
The 2009 global outbreak of swine flu, or H1N1, claimed over 17000 lives including 2725 in India between May 2009 and November 2010, when the government asked local manufacturers to come up with affordable preventatives. Five Indian companies -- Cadila ...
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Zee News
The Stream, April 27: Water Cycle is Intensifying Faster Than Predicted
Circle of Blue WaterNews (blog)
Climate change is causing the global water cycle to accelerate and intensify faster than previously thought, with the possibility that it could intensify 16-24 percent by 2100, according to a new study published in the journal Science, Nature reported.
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Billionaires who shoot for the stars
Business Spectator
Officially launched at a press conference on April 24, the company said the plan to mine asteroids could potentially add trillions of dollars to the global(or should that be universe's) economy, providing of course that the rare minerals can be mined ...
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COLUMN: Walmart slacks on sustainability, evironmental health
Oklahoma Daily
The clothes we wear, the electronics we operate and the supermarkets we frequent all fit into a global picture. With the shop local movement under our heels and “small business Saturday” an unofficial holiday, it's important to understand not only ...
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Innovative Technology Products of 2012 - Scott Steinberg Speaks with NewsWatch
Houston Chronicle
If users want more information about any of these products visit imateweb.com Hailed as a top voice for today's high-tech generation by dozens of publications from USA Today to Forbes and NPR, Scott Steinberg has covered the field for 400+ outlets from ...
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The Emerging Global Market For Intellectual Property - Forbes
The Forbes 2012 Tax Guide ... Focusing on intellectual capital isn't new at IBM. ... But we also participate in the global intellectual property market, reaping $1 ...
www.forbes.com/.../the-emerging-global-market-for-intellectu...
The Top 10 Global Beauty Brands - Forbes
Brand Finance this week released its annual ranking of the 50 biggest global... Sign up to follow your favorite billionaire and get news alerts delivered right to ...
www.forbes.com/sites/.../the-top-10-global-beauty-brands/
More Global Warming Alarmist Games: Doctoring The ... - Forbes
I write about energy and environment issues, frequently focusing on globalwarming. I have presented environmental analysis on CNN, CNN HeadlineNews , ...
www.forbes.com/.../more-global-warming-alarmist-games-doc...
Will Mitt Romney Recycle George W. Bush's Global ... - Forbes
Romney seems bent on recycling Bush 43's global warming muddle, ...Sign up to follow your favorite billionaire and get news alerts delivered right to your inbox ...
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The World's Biggest Companies - Forbes
In total, the Global 2000 companies now account for $36 trillion in revenues (up .... Sign up to follow your favorite billionaire and get news alerts delivered right to ...
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Being Global I: Global Leaders for Global Transformation - Forbes
It is based on extensive research done by the Thunderbird School of GlobalManagement and is documented in the new book “Being Global: How to Think, Act ...
www.forbes.com/.../being-global-i-global-leaders-for-global-tr...
uh oh, broken iPhone? Welcome to The Global Brain. - 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 globalwealth.
www.forbes.com/.../uh-oh-broken-iphone-welcome-to-the-glo...
Being Global III: Global Leaders Act as Global Entrepreneurs - Forbes
In the previous post we discussed the importance of a global mindset for ...Sign up to follow your favorite billionaire and get news alerts delivered right to your ...
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Apple's Secret Plan For Its Cash Stash - Forbes.com
A lot of high-tech manufacturers on The Global 2000 dream about controlling ... that come true, specifically by buying production equipment to outfit new and ...
www.forbes.com/.../global-2000-12-united-states-tim-cook-ap...
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