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Larry Ellison, Oracle’s Resident Philanthropist, Is Looking To Help California Wildlife Continue

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Oracle's billionaire chairman is looking to save local wildlife in Saratoga, California.The San Jose Mecury News is reporting that the Larry Ellison Foundation's partnering with the Peninsula Humane...

"Gravity" Places Sandra Bullock on the Top of Forbes’ List for Actresses

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On paper, the movie Gravity seemed like a crazy risk. The effects-heavy movie cost upward of $100 million to produce and instead of comic book heroes fighting it out, the film featured one woman...

Mark Zuckerberg Turns 30: A Look Back

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The first time his name appeared in Forbes Magazine, Mark Zuckerberg was an afterthought. Sandwiched in between the ranks and photos of the richest Americans in the 2007 Forbes 400 issue, Zuckerberg...

On This Earth Day, It’s Actually Easier To Be Green

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 EDITOR’S NOTE: Forbes has just published Curbing Cars: America’s Independence From The Auto Industry, an eBook investigating why a growing number of Americans are giving up their cars....

Inside Forbes: The Role of Pay and Traffic in Our Search for a New Media Equation

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Full disclosure: I’ve used this headline before. Actually, only the second half of it. Both times I was riffing off the title of David Carr’s column in The New York Times, The Media...

50 Billionaires To Follow On Twitter

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The entrepreneurial experience necessary to build a ten-figure fortune make billionaires a fount of business knowledge. Some of the richest people in the world have taken to Twitter to...

Inside Forbes: After a Digital Attack, a Story of Recovery and What It Means

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Forbes.com came under digital attack last week. It began Thursday and continued into Friday. On Twitter, the Syrian Electronic Army, supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, claimed...

Inside Forbes: 7 Facts Journalists Need to Know About the News Business

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I vividly recall my hunt for a newspaper job in 1974 after getting an undergrad degree in journalism. I went to school in Iowa City, so the natural choices were The Cedar Rapids Gazette or...