Forbes solves White House Situation Room photo mystery
With 2.2 million views on Flickr and counting, the White House Situation Room photo is living up to all the adjectives. Â It's been called iconic, riveting, the defining photo of Barack Obama's...
View ArticleMicrosoft to buy Skype for $8.5 Billion: How to not screw it up
This morning Microsoft confirmed its biggest acquisition ever: Â they are purchasing Skype for $8.5 billion in cash. Â Eight-point-five BILLION. Â In CASH. What will Microsoft get with its purchase of...
View ArticleForbes Staffers Recall 9/11: Emotion and the Job [VIDEO]
Forbes Staffers recall 9/11, the emotion and the job.
View ArticleForbes, Social Media and the Advertising Mix in 180 Seconds
I had 180 seconds to give an overview of how Forbes is blending Social and Advertising. Here's how I did it.
View ArticleWhy and How Forbes Partnered with Google Currents
In April our Chief Product Officer Lewis DVorkin received an email from Google Product Manager Mussie Shore. Â Mussie had just finished reading Lewis' post about re-imagining a magazine as digital media...
View ArticleSarah Palin and Meredith Vieira? Here Are 5 Better Co-hosts To Take On Katie...
Really, NBC? Â Good Morning America goes for the jugular by booking Katie Couric as their morning show co-host this week and you fight back with...Sarah Palin and Meredith Vieira? Â Yeah, you threw in a...
View ArticleWhat Happens When You Build An App With An Advertiser Looking Over Your Shoulder
Forbes Financial Planning iPad App Building products can be messy. Â First, you start with an idea. Â It's vapor, nothing but imagination and instinct and hopefully some data thrown in for good measure....
View ArticleHow You Like Me Now? Steve Forbes Vs. Jimmy Fallon's Mets Bucket Hat Guy
Video They are, indeed, an odd couple:  Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes and Jimmy Fallon writer Mike DiCenzo, a.k.a. Mets Bucket Hat Guy.  Fans of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon know Mets Bucket Hat Guy...
View ArticleTop 24 Things We've Done In The Past 24 Months At Forbes
Video Photo credit: Wikipedia Today marked my second year at Forbes. On June 1, 2010 I stood outside 60 5th Avenue and looked up at the building stamped with Forbes Magazine. I recognized the irony of...
View ArticleForbes Follow Bar: What Is It, And Why?
Today we've launched the FORBES Â Follow Bar. Â You can see it at the bottom of your screen, a horizontal bar that is persistent as you click around the FORBES site. What is the FORBESÂ Follow Bar, and...
View ArticlePatent Application Reveals Key Factors In Google News Algorithm
Image via CrunchBase Google filed a patent application last year to refine their news-ranking algorithm for third time in the past nine years.  The Google News algorithm has long been a mystery, with...
View ArticleGirls Say Moms Are Heroes [VIDEO]
Whether you stay home or go to an office each day, we're all working moms.  And according to our daughters, we're also heroes. As part of the inaugural Forbes Women's Summit: Power Redefined, we spoke...
View ArticleWhy Forbes Partnered With Google On Mobile Recommendations
VideoToday Google rolls out mobile recommendations powered by Google+, with Forbes as the launch partner. Â I had been thinking about social filters and what constitutes a 'credible recommendation' when...
View ArticleForbes Fitness Plan: One Comedian, 100 Celebs [VIDEO]
VideoThis year's Celebrity 100 list boasts four comedians:  Jerry Seinfeld, George Lopez, Kevin Hart and Louis C.K.  One comedian not yet  on the list?  Eliot Glazer. Glazer is more than a 30-year-old...
View ArticleLifestyles Of The Rich And Average [VIDEO]
How do our Forbes 400 billionaires stack up against the average Joe? Let's find out.
View ArticleOprah Winfrey: From O to $2.9 Billion [VIDEO]
From humble beginnings to a world known media mogul, here's how Oprah has become a household name.
View ArticleHow Many Likes Can Mark Zuckerberg Buy? [VIDEO]
Billions of dollars and billions of pieces of content -- how much does Facebook make from your content?
View ArticleHow Did Michael Bloomberg Get So Rich? [VIDEO]
Everyone knows him as "Hizzoner", but exactly how did he get to be a billionaire?
View ArticleBillionaires? Try Well-Grounded Heirs [VIDEO]
How do those who have achieved great financial success avoid raising spoiled brats? Members of three of America's greatest business families -- the Buffetts, the Pritzkers and the Carlsons -- show the...
View ArticleHow The Waltons Got So Wealthy - Forbes 400 [VIDEO]
Four member of the Walton family are in the top ten of the Forbes 400 list, but just how big is the Walmart brand?
View ArticleBillionaires: Surprising First Jobs [VIDEO]
Looking at the people on FORBES 400 now, you couldn't imagine them working at the burger counter, but hey, you gotta start somewhere.
View ArticleWhat You Don't Know About Laurene Powell Jobs [VIDEO]
She's the richest woman in Silicon Valley, but most people have no clue who she is.
View ArticleSteve Ballmer's Top 5 Mega-Awesome Antics [VIDEO]
Looking back on 33 years of awesomeness and intensity. Steve Ballmer, who announced he is stepping down this year as Microsoft's CEO, ranks as the 21st richest person on the 2013 Forbes 400 List.
View ArticleThe Koch Brothers Are Everywhere [VIDEO]
Can you spot all the products they are in? Play our game and see.
View ArticleRichest Women In America - Forbes 400 [VIDEO]
The 2013 Forbes 400 List of the wealthiest Americans features 47 women. These are a few of the richest.
View ArticleSpielberg And Lucas: The Wealth Behind The Duo [VIDEO]
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are two of the top earners in film. We take a look at their past collaborations and their rank on the 2013 Forbes 400 list.
View ArticleAn Olympics Gold Medal: Big Data Breakdown [Video]
With a slopestyle skiing sweep on Thursday, the American team is dominating extreme sports at the Olympics.  For  Joss Christensen and snowboarders Jamie Anderson, Sage Kotsenburg  and Kaitlyn...
View ArticleCaptured On Video: Nine Surprising Moments At Forbes Under 30 Summit
When  you have more than 1,500 overachievers in one place you're bound to get a few surprises, like the High and Mighty Brass Band playing their way up the escalator and through the crowd.  That's what...
View ArticleWhat you can do at blogs.forbes.com
Our soft-launch of the new blogs.forbes.com is more than a coat of paint and some digital feng shui. As Lewis DVorkin (Forbes Chief Product Officer and my boss) said in his post: We're putting news at...
View ArticleThoughts On Windows Phone 7 (So Far)
What can we expect from the next generation of Microsoft's mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7 (WP7)? In short: eye candy, consistent design, a decent number of applications, cloud integration and...
View ArticleMC Hammer to Jay-Z: Can't touch this [VIDEO]
Tracing the Jay-Z / MC Hammer public feud through video. Can we declare a winner?
View ArticleNames You Need To Know in 2011: RockMelt, the social browser
This post is part of an ongoing effort to crowd-source a repeating feature in Forbes magazine entitled Names You Need to Know. We are looking for the people, places, products and ideas that will have...
View ArticleWikiLeaks' Cablegate meets Taiwanese animation [Video]
VideoForget a Saturday Night Live skit -- an event reenacted through Taiwanese CGI animation is the new pop culture standard. Like Tiger Woods and Steve Jobs, WikiLeaks and Julian Assange have now made...
View ArticleJohnny Marr tweets British PM David Cameron: I forbid you from liking The Smiths
We first need to get past the fact that Johnny Marr is on Twitter. Founding member of The Smiths, singer - songwriter - guitarist extraordinaire, Morrissey nemesis and cultural icon of the indie music...
View ArticleDomino's Employee Dismissal Form: How an accidental viral ad campaign happens
I noticed the trending topic early this morning on Twitter: Employee Dismissal Form.
View ArticleLaunch Day at Forbes: What (and how) we're building
I sometimes think of our effort to reshape Forbes as Extreme Makeover: Media Edition. It's daunting to take on a media entity with a 93-year legacy and a huge sitemap. It's not like tearing down a...
View ArticleThe new Forbes.com: What's in it for you?
As part of our ongoing rearchitecture of Forbes, on January 24th we launched a newHome page, eight new Channel pages (Business, Investing, Tech...) and 66 new Section pages(ForbesWoman, Fact &...
View ArticleIs Radiohead's Thom Yorke channeling Seinfeld's Elaine Benes?
VideoRadiohead's Thom Yorke busts some grooves in his new music video for Lotus Flower. Radiohead released their latest album online today, 24 hours earlier than planned. When Radiohead released "In...
View ArticleCharlie Sheen implodes: The animated movie
VideoOh, Charlie Sheen. You've out-Lohan'd Lindsay and out-Jesse'd James. Your interviews today -- ranging from The Today Show to TMZ -- were worthy of bothadmiration and alarm. In the past few days...
View ArticleThe Real Story Behind Charlie Sheen Joining Twitter
Behold the explosive power of the drug called Charlie Sheen and his fire-breathing fists. If you didn't hear, yesterday Charlie Sheen joined Twitter. Today he very well may reach 1 million followers...
View ArticleJustin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and the best #RoyalWedding tweets
Before dawn here in America, Prince William and Kate Middleton exchanged vows with pomp, circumstance and yes, tweets. My colleague Jane Lee was up to document the real-life drama: An estimated 2.5...
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