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New Fame Game: Leveraging Status to Invest in Hot Deals..

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The presumptive GOP nominee has diversified far past Bain Capital. From hedge funds to his kids' $100 million trust, Forbes reveals the most definitive valuation of the man who would be the richest president ever...

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I don't generally dabble in the video game beat. Forbes has a handful of contributors who cover it far better than I ever could. But I'm leaving my swim lane for a moment because sometimes you just have to throw down and let the Man know you don't appreciate what he's up to.  Yes EA and Blizzard, I'm talking about you...

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The trading debacle at JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s biggest bank, appears to be getting worse...

Details: http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2012/05/16/jpmorgans-whale-trade-reportedly-sinks-by-another-1-billion/

Is the upcoming Facebook offering a $100 billion sucker bet? Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO, during his European Tour. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As the mainstream media amps up the hype like a bunch of teenagers partying in a house their parents have left for the weekend, there are signs that millions ..

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By James McQuivey..

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A 23andMe user got quite a surprise when she went looking for relatives on the site. She discovered a full brother...

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The Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday that Skechers USA agreed to pay $40 million to settle charges that it deceived consumers by “making unfounded claims that Shape-ups would help people lose weight, and strengthen and tone their buttocks, legs and abdominal muscles.”..

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By Tom Matlack..

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The methodology behind the Celebrity 100...

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Today's stories from Forbes contributors on the business of health and medicine:..

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A Pennsylvania state appeals court has ruled that the adult son of a nursing home resident is responsible for her unpaid $93,000 bill. And the decision has some elder care lawyers wondering if this is just the beginning of a trend...

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Giving the closing speech at Wednesday’s Ira Sohn Conference, Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman defended his massive investment in J.C. Penney.  Calling it a “contrarian” idea, Ackman noted that J.C. Penney’s weaknesses are the stock’s greatest opportunity, as shares in the department store suffered their biggest loss in 40 years after missing expectations in their latest earnings...

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Whereas once upon a time a celebrity lending his or her recognition to further a product was called a sell-out, today getting behind a product and using one’s fame to help it along is called entrepreneurship. And rightly so. The kind of active investment we’re seeing from celebrities like 50 Cent, Ashton Kutcher, Sean Combs and Leonardo DiCaprio is marked by market research, personal engagement in the product and an ownership stake. Sure, a lot of these glitzy moguls-in-the-making have business managers and research teams, but compare their entrepreneurial endeavors to what they could be doing – renting out their likenesses to underwear ads – and you’ve got to admit they are a little bit more engaged...

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This story originally appeared in the June 6, 2012, issue of Forbes magazine:..

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Dodd-Frank may be just a speed bump for Jamie Dimon...

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Activision Blizzard's Diablo III hit stores on Tuesday, and fans of the video game franchise have already made the release a monster hit. But some new owners are steaming about connectivity issues that made it impossible for them to try out their purchase, and wondering why a single-player game needs to go online in the first place...

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Hollywood’s hardest-working businessman Ryan Seacrest, number 29 on Forbes' Celebrity 100, has officially swooped in on Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi's former Beverly Hills digs for $37 million. DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi first listed the property for $49 million back in October 2011 before transitioning over to a more private Malibu pad formerly belonging to actor Brad Pitt. Hollywood sure does keep it in the family!..

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What do the Dalai Lama, Eminem and Clint Eastwood have in common? A controversial marketer named Olivier Francois who has proven that he knows how to sell cars...

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What do the Dalai Lama, Eminem and Clint Eastwood have in common? A controversial marketer named Olivier Francois who has proven that he knows how to sell cars...

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After spending nothing but time on Facebook, I've attracted over 100K followers. After spending $40 million per year on its Facebook presence, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, General Motors has attracted just 378K fans to its primary page. While it does have dozens of other car-related Facebook pages which have also attracted 'likes,' that's fairly depressing and is perhaps part of the reason that the company wants to cut back on its Facebook spending...

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Jonathan Kirk Davis, Veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps..

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This evening, my colleagues and I published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine that established that the FDA is approves drugs faster than its counterparts in Europe and Canada. Based on a careful review of applications for novel therapeutic agents approved from 2001 through 2010, we found that the FDA was almost two months faster than the European Medicines Agency and Health Canada. Moreover, the majority of the agents that we evaluated were approved first in the United States...

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Investors are prone to making irrational decisions. The simple truth is that what feels good, or what satisfies an immediate impulse, is not always compatible with generating positive, long-term returns...

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The art of negotiation...

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Facebook -- expected to launch its IPO this week -- is speculated to have a valuation of $96 billion. With the company earning $200 million in their last quarter or $800 annualized, this means their valuation is more than 100 times their earnings. When Facebook acquired Instagram, the numbers raised some eyebrows -- but what many failed to notice was that most of the acquisition price that Facebook paid for Instagram was actually in Facebook stock. According to an S-1 filing, the company is paying $300 million in cash, and the rest in stock. Therefore, the real risk to Facebook is small, relative to the amount of users and the valuable photo platform gained...

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Mario Lopez is best known for his character A.C. Slater on the classic hit TV show Saved By The Bell. He was in the third season of Dancing with the Stars and is a celebrity guest host for the syndicated entertainment news magazine show Extra. In addition, he is the host of Americas Best Dance Crew on MTV. He is the author of Mario Lopez Knockout Fitness, Extra Lean, and Extra Lean Family. In this interview, I ask Mario about how he first got involved in the entertainment industry, what some of his experiences have been, his obstacles and future projects he's involved in...

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This article originally appeared in the June 4, 20012 issue of Forbes magazine...

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This article originally appeared in the June 4, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine...

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JPMorgan Chase  isn't the only firm on the Street having a tough week. Morgan Stanley is having a worse one in terms of its stock performance...

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