It's rare for water to make waves at the World Economic Forum's annual gathering of business leaders and finance ministers. But the most recent Davos summit was an exception. A new eye-opening??report ranked??water supply among the top five global risks in terms of impact? on par with systemic financial failure and fiscal imbalances. As we ...

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Apple's coffers are deep enough to afford its new dividend and share buyback plans.

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Looking more and more like a cable network, Netflix today announced plans to offer streaming customers Hemlock Grove, a brand new horror series from the actor and director Eli Roth, who among other things directed the creepy films Hostel and Hostel: Part II. (You might also remember him from a memorable role he had in ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 22:55

? It?s back. The long-awaited (17 months!) fifth season of AMC?s Mad Men will hit the airwaves this weekend. While devotees flock around their flat screens and raise a martini glass (or three) in celebration, retailers are gambling that viewers will be so charmed by the sartorially splendid characters, they?ll be dipping into their wallets ...

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Nike reports earnings with stock near all-time high.

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Promising results from very early studies with an experimental new cholesterol-lowering drug, a monoclonal antibody to PCSK9, have been??published in the??New England??Journal of Medicine. Evan Stein and colleagues report the results of two single-dose studies in which the drug, REGN727, was administered intravenously and subcutaneously to healthy subjects. In a third, randomized, placebo-controlled, dose-ranging trial, ...

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UK-based social networking site Badoo.com is launching a new marketing campaign in New York this week in which they invite 1,000 New Yorkers to participate in a mammoth photo shoot to capture the ultimate profile picture. Forbes spoke to Jessica Powell, the chief marketing officer of Badoo, to learn more.

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It?s not easy being Chevron. The BP of Brazil faces a round of civil and criminal charges so steep that the company?s spokesman in California, Kurt Glaubitz, called them ?outrageous and without merit? on Wednesday. Chevron faces a whopping $11 billion in civil damages and its president in Rio, George Buck, could face upwards of ...

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New regulations are driving proprietary traders out of investment banking and into the hedge fund business. Here are ones to watch.

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When starting the budgeting process, it's easy to get overwhelmed with all of the little decisions that come up before you've even started to track one cent. To streamline the "getting started" phase, I recommend taking eight specific steps: Go high tech. the budgeting process in a low tech way simply means keeping a spreadsheet ...

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