FORBES News, Jan 20, 2012

Samsung Gives Tizen a Boost with Plans to Merge Bada PCWorld (blog) In an interview at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Samsung executive Kang Tae-jin, a senior vice president with the company, told Forbes that Samsung plans to merge its homegrown Bada mobile operating system into Tizen, ... See all stories on this topic »

Forbes Insights Study: Motivation for Corporate Giving Affects Results MarketWatch (press release) The study is based on a global survey of 311 senior executives (more than half of them C-level) at large enterprises with annual revenues of more than $500 million. Functions included corporate management, finance, HR, and community relations or ... See all stories on this topic »

Forbes Coal Reports Revenue of $31.2 Million in Fiscal Third Quarter 2012, an ... MarketWatch (press release) ... the continued global demand for coal." Fiscal year-to-date figures are: Revenue is $86 million; Gross Profit is $16.6 million; Consolidated EBIDTA is $20.9 million; Slater Stand Alone EBIDTA is $24.4 million. Production at Forbes Coal's two mines, ... See all stories on this topic »

The Brand Payoff Forbes Third, a strong brand buffets a company from external circumstances. Even at the height of the global recession, Apple profits continued to dazzle investors and analysts alike. (In 2009, one Forbes.com headline read simply, “Apple Kills Recession. ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

Doing one's best for the boom brand China Daily By Hu Yuanyuan (China Daily) BEIJING - Angela Ahrendts, chief executive officer of Burberry Group PLC, was named as one of Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women in theWorld four times in the past five years. In 2010, her name also appeared on the list of ... See all stories on this topic » China Daily

Forbes Earnings Preview: Schlumberger Forbes Schlumberger is a global oilfield services company that supplies technology, integrated project management and information solutions to consumers in the oil and gas industry through its subsidiaries. One of Schlumberger's main competitors in the energy ... See all stories on this topic »

South Forbes sophistication Business Mirror The South Forbes City Colleges will immerse students young and old in global tertiary education. Other schools at the borders of South Forbes are the DLSU-Canlubang, St. Scholastica's College, Don Bosco, the Ateneo Post-Graduate School, Xavier School ... See all stories on this topic » Business Mirror

Forbes Earnings Preview: Advanced Micro Devices Forbes Advanced Micro Devices is a global semiconductor company that provides processing solutions for the computing and graphics markets and is involved with manufacturing, research and development, and sales. One of Advanced Micro Devices' main competitors ... See all stories on this topic »

Forbes Says Lawsuit-Bolstered iPhone Must Lower Price To Compete In China AppAdvice However, in doing so, the article's author makes a number of tenuous assertions about the fundamental basis for Apple's global success. Having identified China as a significant area of growth, it will not be long before Apple joins the fray more ... See all stories on this topic » AppAdvice

ASU alum wins Forbes College Social Innovator Award Arizona State University The award, presented in partnership with Forbes and the Harvard College Social Innovation Collaborative, seeks to highlight and reward college undergraduates in the US creating positive change at a local, national and global level via social ... See all stories on this topic » Arizona State University

Expats square up over Forbes UAE snub ArabianBusiness.com UAE is not unique as all gulf countries are in same ranking. only +ve side I think that UAE is better than other Gulf countries and more tolerant but no way in global standard. I have been in UAE for last 10 years but never been invited by any local ... See all stories on this topic »

Meet the executive that Forbes calls the most important woman in the auto industry WXYZ (WXYZ) - Mary Barra is GM's new driving force behind Global Product Development. She is part of CEO Dan Akerson's plan to speed up development at General Motors and be more aggressive getting new vehicles to market. Forbes has called her the most... See all stories on this topic » WXYZ

Understanding Social: An Infographic of a New Business Idea Forbes I'm a former partner at the first social agency - The Conversation Group. My passion is for studying and talking about transformational change and how to respond to it. Contact me if you are interested. The author is a Forbes contributor. ... See all stories on this topic »

Forbes Earnings Preview: PNC Financial Services Forbes PNC Financial Services Group is engaged in retail banking, corporate and institutional banking, residential mortgage banking, asset management, and global investment servicing. One of PNC Financial's main competitors in the commercial banks industry, ... See all stories on this topic »

My Quest For Paradise On The Expat Explorer Forbes I've got a young daughter, and while life is good at Forbes, who knows. I recently got a headhunter call who wanted to know if I was willing to relocate to New Delhi (so did half the editors here, I later learned. So much for my special talents). ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

Forbes Earnings Preview: Bank Of New York Mellon Forbes The Bank of New York Mellon is a global financial services company that offers individuals and institutions products and services such as asset management, wealth management, and advisory services. One of Bank Of New York's main competitors in the ... See all stories on this topic »

The world's first Audi R8 Limo – is this the ultimate wedding car? Wedding News Leading limousine and wedding car hire provider, Limo Broker, revealed plans to create the world's first ever Audi R8 stretch limo earlier this month, with news of the exclusive project going global with best selling America magazine, Forbes, ... See all stories on this topic » Wedding News

Beyond SOPA: Why 'Easy' Solutions Don't Stop Net Crime Forbes As Forbes reporter Andy Greenberg pointed out in his post “SOPA Haters Are Already Finding Easy Ways To Circumvent Its Censorship,” enterprising individuals and organizations are already finding easy ways to evade the Stop Online Piracy Act legislation ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

China Manufacturing May Contract for Third Month Bloomberg Enlarge image China Manufacturing May Contract for Third Month China Manufacturing May Contract for Third Month Forbes Conrad/Bloomberg Employees stand by a Sany Heavy Industry Co. 86m truck mounted concrete pump as it is introduced at the company's ... See all stories on this topic » Bloomberg

Among the world's big cities, Cleveland isn't so bad Crain's Cleveland Business (blog) That's the question you might ask when you check out these Forbes.com rankings of the happiest and unhappiest cities in which to work. The list, compiled by CareerBliss, is based on analysis of more than 43000 independent employee reviews. ... See all stories on this topic »

Absolutely Fab: Fab.com Buys FashionStake Forbes When we last checked in with FashionStake, the global e-commerce retailer for independent fashion, the company had been in shopping mode –in the form of another internet retailer Moxsie. Now it's FashionStake's turn to be acquired. ... See all stories on this topic »

China Appliances Target Philips Market as Incomes Double: Retail Bloomberg Enlarge image China Appliances Target Philips Market as Incomes Double China Appliances Target Philips Market as Incomes Double Forbes Conrad/Bloomberg Workers assemble air conditioners at Gree Electric Appliances Inc.'s factory in Zhuhai,... See all stories on this topic » Bloomberg

Far EasTone Chairman Douglas Hsu Holds Hope For Stalled China Mobile Deal Forbes I think we are in a bit of an envious position, because 2011 turned out quite good, although we have to adjust a bit because the world economy isn't that good. All of our major projects have been going ahead. With (the global economy slowing) down, ... See all stories on this topic »

European Debt Fears Dent Hopes For Post-Election Stock Rally in Taiwan Forbes “It's back to the fundamentals,” he said an interview with Forbes Asia today. For its part, the election turned out generally in line with what investors were expecting, Dong said. “The market moved up ahead of the election on the expectation of little ... See all stories on this topic »

Report paints bleak picture of Ukraine EurActiv From 2010 to 2011, Ukraine dropped seven places in both the World Bank's investment climate ranking and Forbes magazine's conditions for business index. The report also highlights a marked decline in small and medium-sized enterprises. ... See all stories on this topic »

We'd All Better Hope Krugman Is Right On The US Debt Forbes You (and most other Forbes contributors) are not suggesting ameliorative policy to create and maintain middle-class-paying jobs here in the United States. Fareed Zakaria pointed out that we are not competing with our Asian “partners” in any production ... See all stories on this topic »

Greg Case: Tough Times Have Put Companies At Higher Risk Moneycontrol.com Aon Corp is one of the world's largest providers of risk advisory and mitigation services. CEO Greg Case spoke to Forbes India about dealing with risk in 2012 Career: Prior to joining Aon, Case was with management consulting firm McKinsey & Company for ... See all stories on this topic » Moneycontrol.com

cleverbridge Appoints General Manager in Japan to Expand Asian Operations San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Ito has more than 25 years of management experience with technology and e-commerce companies, ranging from start-ups to Forbes Global 2000 Leading Companies, and has led multiple companies to successful market entries in Japan. ... See all stories on this topic »

Israeli-American owners of Carnival Cruises lose half a billion on Italy shipwreck GlobalPost With a $5.9 billion fortune, Micky Arison was listed as the 169th richest person in the world by Forbes World Billionaires last March, but since then he lost a very public legal battle with his sister ($5.1 billion) and was forced to sell her his share ... See all stories on this topic »

The World's Water Crisis Norwalk Plus Magazine Mr. Solomon has had pieces published in major publications, including The New York Times, Business Week, Forbes and Esquire. A regular commentator on NPR's Marketplace, Solomon has also appeared on BBC-TV, Al-Jazeera, and the CBS Evening News, ... See all stories on this topic »

Arizona State alumni receives Forbes innovator award KTAR.com Lewis was named the 2011 College Social Innovator Award Winner because her organization focuses on creating a positive change at either a local, national or global level via social entrepreneurship. See all stories on this topic »

Prokhorov sees nod for London gold listing The West Australian Prokhorov, ranked Russia's third-richest man by Forbes magazine with a fortune of $18 billion (11.7 billion pounds), owns aluminium, gold and banking assets, the New Jersey Nets basketball team, and is developing a hybrid passenger car. ... See all stories on this topic » The West Australian

Kraft To Fire 1600 To Slim Down, Extend Reach Post-Split Forbes Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and other Wall Street institutions have also been forced to reduce headcounts, according to Forbes' Halah Touryalai. Shares in Kraft had a good day in New York and continued to rally into the afterhours session. ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

Cato's Patrick Michaels: Serial Deleter of Inconvenient Data ThinkProgress By Joe Romm on Jan 16, 2012 at 9:52 am Patrick Michaels is a research fellow at the Cato Institute think tank, the chief editor of the website World Climate Report, has been given a climate blog at the business magazine Forbes, and his articles are ... See all stories on this topic » ThinkProgress

Cyber Attacks Take Down Two Israeli Websites - Is Cyber Warfare The Next Front ... Forbes The response to that threat has been slow in coming by global security officials. As is usual for our bureaucracy, we are slow to move until something very bad happens. Then we overreact. 9/11 is simply the most glaring example of this dynamic. ... See all stories on this topic »

Hacker collective Anonymous shuts down Department of Justice website, among others GlobalPost Anonymous also claimed credit for cyber attacks that knocked the websites of the Recording Industry of America, the Motion Picture Association of America, and Universal Music, Forbes reported. They overwhelmed those sites with junk traffic, ... See all stories on this topic »

Bazaarvoice and Badgeville Form Strategic Partnership to Help Global Client ... MarketWatch (press release) Badgeville, which was recently named as one of Forbes' Most Promising Companies, delivers sophisticated gamification and reputation solutions to more than 100 customers, including dozens of the Fortune 1000 companies and the world's most innovative ... See all stories on this topic »

KYOCERA's 315-Watt, 80-Cell Solar Module Launches in the U.S. MarketWatch (press release) During the year ended March 31, 2011, the company's net sales totaled 1.27 trillion yen (approx. USD15.3 billion). The company is ranked #604 on Forbes magazine's 2011 "Global 2000" listing of the world's largest publicly traded companies. See all stories on this topic »

Billionaire Gingrich PAC Funder Sheldon Adelson Backed Romney, MA GOP in '04 Big Government by Charles C. Johnson Sheldon Adelson wasn't always eighth on the Forbes billionaire list, but the Boston-born son of a poor cab driver is now a casino and resort hotel magnate. He's a college dropout who tried his hand at many different businesses ... See all stories on this topic »

Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang resigns PhysOrg.com According to Forbes magazine, Yang is the 938th richest person in the world with a fortune estimated at $1.1 billion. He still owns around 3.6 percent of Yahoo!'s shares. Yahoo ! announced Tuesday that co - founder Jerry Yang , pictured in 2008 , has. See all stories on this topic » PhysOrg.com

miningne.ws: Forbes Coal revenue for Q3 up 245% Emerging coal miner Forbes & Manhattan Coal, which has listings in Toronto (Canada) and Johannesburg, reported a 245% increase in revenue year-on-year to C$31.2 million for the third fiscal quarter ended November 30 2011. ... miningne.ws: Global Mining News...

re: The Auditors » Blog Archive » MF Global Updates: Forbes ... Last Monday in Forbes, I gave readers a link to some very interesting facts uncovered by Bob English, an independent trader and blogger who has been following the MF Global story on his blog, Economic Policy Journal. His findings raise serious questions about the Securities and .... In other news, I penned a somewhat provocative prediction for American Banker on January 3 regarding Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan. Jamie Dimon will have the misfortune, I believe, of catching a ... re: The Auditors

Forbes Coal 'well positioned' to maintain growth, says CEO By Idéle Esterhuizen TSX- and JSE-listed Forbes & Manhattan Coal (Forbes Coal) is “well positioned” to maintain strong growth rates, CEO Stephan Theron said on Tuesday, as the miner boosted third-quarter production and revenue growth. The company, which operates ... Theron said Forbes Coal's sales remained consistent as a result of the continued global demand for coal. Total sales were 331 000 t in ... FULL Access to Mining Weekly and Engineering News - Subscribe Now! Topics in this article ... Mining Weekly | Coal

2012: The Year of "Moving On" - Forbes The images reflect the yin and yang of the world: the global economy as it limped ... The World'sMost Powerful People .... News; People; Places; Companies ... www.forbes.com/sites/.../2012-the-year-of-moving-on/?feed...

A Falling Italian Money Supply Indicates Recession Coming - Forbes Latest News ». The Forbes Global 2000 are the biggest, most powerful listed companies in theworld. This year's list reflects big gains in profit and sales from a ... www.forbes.com/.../a-falling-italian-money-supply-indicates-r...

  

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EUROPEAN Union News, Jan 20, 2012

EU report calls for action over Israeli settlement growth The Guardian Legislation should prohibit trade and business with settlements based on their illegality under international law, rather than a politically-driven boycott, said one EU diplomatic source. It is the latest in a spate of recent European reports and ... See all stories on this topic »

EARTHQUAKE News, Jan 20, 2012

Iran quake leaves at least 230 injured USA TODAY Iran is located on seismic fault lines and is prone to earthquakes, experiencing at least one slightquake a day on average. For more information about reprints & permissions, visit our FAQ's. To report corrections and clarifications, contact Standards ... See all stories on this topic »

Washington Monument gets $7.5M for quake repairs Fox News Repairing water damage from when rain leaked through will cost more, as would a seismic study or reinforcements to strengthen the structure against future earthquakes. The August quake was centered some 40 miles west of Richmond, Va., and was felt from ... See all stories on this topic »

Fracking Quakes Shake the Shale Gas Industry Technology Review Similarly, a fracking operation that injected 2.4 million gallons of fluid into an Oklahoma well over six days last January is a likely cause of the 43 earthquakes that followed, according to a state geologist's report. The 1.0-to-2.8-magnitude quakes ... See all stories on this topic » Technology Review

Tokyo Tough Enough for Big Quake – Minister Wall Street Journal (blog) The capital also holds annual disaster drills and every five years assesses the potential damage anearthquake may wreak. The last study in 2006 estimated a 7.3-magnitude quake in northern Tokyo Bay would kill about 5600 people and injure 159100. See all stories on this topic »

Great East Japan Earthquake may have been caused by 'slow slips': researchers Mainichi Daily News (Mainichi) The magnitude 9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake and a smaller earlierquake may have been caused by a phenomenon known as "slow slips," according to research by the University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute. ... See all stories on this topic » Mainichi Daily News

Residents unhappy with new quake repair process TVNZ Some Christchurch residents say the new process to fix emergency earthquake repairs is a joke. They say there are big delays and it is only a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt or worse. Four quakes over magnitude-5 struck on December 23 ... See all stories on this topic »

Quake demolitions in Ashburton 'not over yet' The Ashburton Guardian Any building that was earthquake prone was subject to damage in an earthquake, he said. "I could say there are buildings in town that could have issues if we have a major quake, there's always that possibility with unreinforced masonry buildings. ... See all stories on this topic »

Quake Catchers, Unite! Discovery News That's the word from University of California, Berkeley, seismologist Richard Allen, who reviews the latest citizen-based earthquake science projects in a Perspectives article out today in the journal Science. So, if you fancy yourself a quake catcher, ... See all stories on this topic »

6.1-magnitude quake strikes off N Zealand Hindustan Times A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of New Zealand's South Island on Thursday, geologists said, but there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning was issued. The quake struck at a relatively shallow depth of ... See all stories on this topic »

Quake drill is critical Shelbyville Times-Gazette Tennessee Emergency Management Agency is encouraging schools, families and businesses to participate in an earthquake drill next month. Registration is open for the second annual Great Central US ShakeOut earthquake drill, scheduled for Feb. ... See all stories on this topic »

Latest News, Breaking News, IRAN Earthquake quake hurt more ... IRAN Earthquake quake hurt more then 100 People TEHRAN: About 100 people were injured when an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale hit ... www.epakistannews.com/iran-earthquake-quake-hurt-more-th...

  

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