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Forbes.com – The World’s Biggest Public Companies

One world: one gigantic market place. This year, 63 countries have Global 2000 entries vs 51 in our inaugural list in 2004. Forbes Global 2000 are the biggest, most powerful listed companies in the world. Our justification for using a composite ranking is simple: One metric alone can give a false impression about corporate size. Our ranking of the world’s biggest companies departs from lopsided lists based on a single metric, like sales. Instead we use an equal weighting of sales, profits, assets and market value to rank companies according to size.

Inc. – The Eight Best Industries for Starting a Business

The article presents industries that offers the greatest opportunities in the coming years. The author claims that wearable computing will be as big as the smartphone market in 2013, when it is already worth 800 million U.S. dollars according to Juniper Research. Investors are also very interested on consumer health technology as companies are producing products that enables one to take control of their health and cut their medical expenses.

Forbes.com – The World’s Most Reputable Companies

The article mentions that Reputation Institute, a global private consulting firm based in New York City, ranked 100 businesses as the world’s most reputable companies. It informs that about 55,000 consumers across 15 markets participated in the survey where each company earned a Global RepTrak Pulse. The article also enumerates seven dimensions of corporate reputation, which include workplace, governance, citizenship and innovation.

Forbes.com – The Most Productive Drug Companies Of The Past 10 Years

A list of the most productive pharmaceutical companies from 2003 to 2013 is presented, which includes Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, and Novartis.

NerdWallet – Best Cities for Young Entrepreneurs

Young entrepreneurs started many of the tech powerhouses of this decade—Facebook and Twitter were both started by founders under 30. Young entrepreneurs often have little savings and few years of business experience, so they need funding as well as mentors and collaborators, and they need to be able to get their small business off the ground cheaply. NerdWallet sifted through the factors that matter to young entrepreneurs—funding, colloboration, economic factors and affordability—to determine which cities are the best for youngsters looking to launch their own startup.

Time Inc. – Time Inc.’s 10 NYC Startups to Watch – 2013

Time Inc. today unveiled its third annual list of the 10 NYC Startups to Watch for 2013. The ten ventures will be recognized at Time Inc.’s Internet Week cocktail event on Wednesday, May 22nd.

Each Spring, editors from Time Inc. brands, including TIME, FORTUNE, CNNMoney.com, PEOPLE, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, and InStyle, comb New York’s technology scene to discover the ten most promising startups of the past year. This year’s diverse list spotlights New York City-based companies with the most potential to transform areas from shopping, personal health and dating to customer service, social media, and data analysis.

Time.com – TIME 100: The 100 Most Influential People in the World

TIME presents its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, from artists and leaders to pioneers, titans and icons.

Fast Company – The United States Of Innovation: Ranking The States (And A District) For Innovation

Try as governments might, a thriving startup culture isn’t legislated into existence. “Those that emerge have a group of entrepreneurs who are active in their community and have decided, hey, we’re going to make this market better,” says Scott Case, CEO of Startup America Partnership. They’re the ones–usually a mix of first-timers and serial founders–who create networks and provide leadership. Where are they thriving right now?

Ethisphere Institute – The World’s Most Ethical Companies Honorees

The World’s Most Ethical (WME) Companies designation recognizes companies that truly go beyond making statements about doing business “ethically” and translate those words into action. WME honorees not only promote ethical business standards and practices internally, they exceed legal compliance minimums and shape future industry standards by introducing best practices today.

Red Herring – Red Herring Europe Top 100

On April 8-10, 2013 the Top 100 Europe forum celebrated the top private companies in the European region. Red Herring’s editorial team analyzes hundreds of cutting edge companies and technologies and selected those who are positioned to grow at an explosive rate.

.net magazine – .net Awards 2013: top 10 new entrepreneurs

This year’s .net Awards are about honouring new projects, people and organisations. We’ve seen some brilliant initiatives grow up over the past twelve months, and this award recognises the achievements of those behind them.

CRN.com – The 2013 Big Data 100

Businesses are struggling with the rapidly increasing volume, speed and variety of information being generated today – what’s come to be known as “big data.” Companies are seeking technologies that not only help them process and manage all that data, but tap into it to develop insights about the markets they compete in as well as their own performance within those markets.

To meet that need, hungry startups and established IT vendors have unleashed a flood of innovative technologies to help businesses collect, manage and analyze big data. Market researcher Gartner recently issued a report declaring 2013 to be the year of large-scale adoption of big data technologies: A survey of IT executives found that 42 percent had already invested in big data technology or planned to do so within a year.

Recognizing that need, we present the inaugural Big Data 100 list, developed by the CRN editorial team, identifying vendors that have demonstrated an ability to innovate in bringing to market products and technologies that help businesses manage big data.

The Business Insider – The 30 Most Creative People In Mobile Advertising

Being creative in mobile advertising is much more difficult than in traditional media.
The real estate — the “creative palette,” if you will — is smaller. The users’ attention span is shorter. The medium itself is new.

And a lot of it can’t be seen easily, the way TV commercials or magazine ads can be seen online.

After extensive research — and reading nominations from movers and shakers in the field — we have ranked the 30 most creative people in the mobile advertising. We defined creativity broadly, from people using the new technology in innovative ways, to those who are creating new tech for the medium, to those with more traditional ideas or design-driven roles.