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Forbes.com – Hong Kong’s 50 Richest

Yet another real estate boom stokes dozens of fortunes.

Harvard Business Review – The Best-Performing CEOs in the World

For years, people have bemoaned executives’ zealous focus on short-term results, which often leads CEOs to make moves that undermine their firms’ long-term prospects and, some say, act irresponsibly. But all the talk won’t change anything if the business world doesn’t adopt a new way of measuring performance. Three professors from France’s Insead believe they have the answer: an innovative scorecard that evaluates CEOs on the basis of the results they delivered over their entire tenures in office. It incorporates three metrics: industry-adjusted shareholder returns, country-adjusted shareholder returns, and increase in market capitalization over that time frame. Using this scorecard, the authors have studied and objectively ranked the performance of thousands of CEOs of major corporations around the world. In this issue, we reveal who made it into the top 100. This is the second installment of the ranking, which we published for the first time three years ago. Since then, the authors have expanded the group of CEOs studied, making it even more global. And, recognizing the growing sentiment that great financial performance is no longer enough, they also looked at social and environmental ratings to see which of the top CEOs also did well on those metrics. Accompanying this year’s list is an interview with Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, whose well-known focus on the long term has served his company extremely well-earning him the #2 spot in the ranking.

Entrepreneur – Entrepreneur 2013 Franchise 500

Our 34th Annual Franchise 500 ranking reveals the impact of the newest trends and the industries poised for growth.

Journal of Engineering – Xerox; 2012 Patent Filings Rank Xerox Among the World’s Top Innovators

Xerox received 1,215 U.S. patents in 2012, ranking the company as one of the world’s top innovators and fuelling its drive to find new ways to simplify the way work gets done.

Forbes.com – Australia’s 50 Richest

A Great Year For Gambling, But Not For Commodities

Entertainment Close-up – Motorola Gets Emmy for Technology and Engineering

This 64th Annual Technology and Engineering Emmy is a great honor that complements our distinguished history of innovation,” said Joe Cozzolino, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Motorola Mobility’s Network Infrastructure Solutions. “Our video product portfolio has a heritage of industry leadership. We are extending that leadership with advanced CherryPicker capabilities as well as our multi-screen ecosystem and network transformation, which are delivering the smart, simple connected home.

Computer Weekly News – CloudBees Selected as a Winner of 2013 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award

2013 JAN 24 (VerticalNews) — By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Computer Weekly News — CloudBees, the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, announced that IDG’s InfoWorld has announced the company as one of 35 winners of the prestigious 2013 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards. Selected by InfoWorld Test Center editors and reviewers, and drawn from all products InfoWorld tested in the past year, the annual list identifies the best and most innovative products and services on the IT landscape. The 2013 awards recognize the best hardware, software and cloud products and services in categories ranging from Big Data to cloud computing to application development and mobile technology. CloudBees’ selection marks the second consecutive year the company has made the InfoWorld list.