Some of the world's richest people climbed a very long way to get there.
The latest victim is the New York Times which told its print and web employees on Saturday that non union staff would receive no pay raises next year, Forbes.com reported. The announcement comes a day after Newsweek was reported to have been considering reducing staff and cutting print order for the magazine.
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In what is in effect a deposit to be paid into court pending a full trial in the case, Judge David Waksman has set a six-week timeline for Anil to pay $100 million to three Chinese banks as he concluded that he did not accept Ambani's defence that his net worth was nearly zero or that his family would not step in to assist him when "push came to shove".
India's share of world GDP is just 2 per cent, and of global poverty an embarrassing 30 per cent.
The world has 1,011 billionaires, up from 793 a year ago. And that was despite the global economic slowdown, according to the Forbes annual list of the world's richest people. Among the top 10 richest persons across the world, there are two Indians.
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has emerged as the richest person in the world with $53.5 billion in assets in the US magazine Forbes annual list of world's top billionaires.
He is widely admired for maintaining an almost military like discipline and is not known to smoke or drink
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The most innovative thing in our industry was the idea of creating a software industry around the personal computer.
Adobe System's chief executive officer Shantanu Narayen and beverage major Pepsico's Indra Nooyi have been ranked at the 16th and 17th places, respectively in the list of 25 'top gun CEOs' for 2009 who kept their firms thriving amid the recessionary situation. The list is topped by business solutions provider Automatic Data Process's Gary C Butler and the magazine said he was 'extremely strong at strategic planning and overall execution.'
The series, Behind the Scenes: Oprah's 25th Season, will give Oprah Winfrey Show fans a behind-the-scenes look at the final season.
Companies that venture capitalists helped launch hauled in $34 billion from 86 public offerings and 304 acquisitions last year
Forbes Magazine has published its list of the world's richest women for the year 2009.
Will Smith continues to be the most bankable star in Hollywood, according to the entertainment database company The Ulmer Scale
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Chanda Kochhar, CEO and managing director of ICICI Bank, spells out ICICI's work culture and employee philosophy.
'Modi's recent decisions to improve India-China relations, adjust India's neighbourhood policies and to rebalance India's ties with the major powers are linked to his political agenda.' 'Of course, the good part is that this agenda is also in the national interest,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Virgin promoter to protest Adani's mining project in Australia, saying it will damage the Great Barrier Reef
Indian info-tech companies that once specialized in basic work are now providing high-value tasks such as R&D and business transformation services.
Not too many surprises, but India's richest man is ranked 19th.
The nation is now home to 52 billionaires, up from 27 last year and only two short of what India had at the peak of its stock market boom in 2007.
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Fresh from destroying England with a scorching display of fast, swinging yorkers that skittled stumps all over Lord's to help Australia seal a series-clinching 4-0 lead with three ODIs remaining, Brett Lee has declared his goal of breaking the 100mph (160.93km/h) speed barrier.
Addressing an Economic Club gathering in Chicago, Nooyi recalled that in 2001 when she went home to tell her mother about her appointment as the Pepsico president, her mother reacted indifferently with a 'dead pan' expression.
... He is 11 years younger... makes more money than her...
In its annual ranking of the world's richest people released last month, Forbes had named Mittal at the eighth place with a net worth of $19.3 billion.
Soccer is at least one business that hasn't been sidelined by the recession.
India has earned the dubious distinction of being the country adding the maximum teeth to its tax regime since last year, says a study by Forbes.
As US business magazine Forbes puts its, the deals being offered would not last forever as they would "evaporate" as the economy improves in the coming months. In its list of '10 Things To Buy Before the Economy Improves', the publication has named houses, diamonds, toys, cars, laptops and women's clothing, among others. Other goods and services which are part of the list are vacation, 'high-dividend stocks', television and furniture.
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