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This year's Forbes Celebrity 100 list is out, and Lady Gaga takes the No. 1 spot, beating out No. 2 celeb Oprah Winfrey. This is a notable changeup in the annual list of most powerful people in the entertainment business, given that in the past seven years Oprah has been No. 1 four times. One reason the pop singer beat out the talk show host, despite making less money ($90 million vs. $290 Read more
Angelina Jolie was looking fabulously happy in NYC while on her press tour for A Mighty Heart. The actress must be ecstatic that she has topped another celebrity list. While she was #2 on the PopSugar 100, she's #14 on the Forbes Celebrity 100. Brad was # 5 however; technically they were the highest actor and actress on the list. The top ten includes, Oprah, Tiger Woods, Madonna, Rolling Read more
Spanx is a word that most women are familiar with. It's a type of shapewear that helps to smooth away lumps and bumps and also leaves no trace of a panty line. The creator of this product, Sara Blakely, has been inducted to this year's Forbes billionaires list, which was released yesterday. Spanx, an international undergarment company, is worth an estimated $1 billion. Here are a couple of Read more
It's tempting to keep your LinkedIn profile at the bare minimum after being laid off because of shame or other reasons, but it will actually hurt your job-hunting prospects if you choose to do so. Prospective employers will sift through a job candidate's Internet footprint, and LinkedIn will be one of the first places they'll look at. Here are some tips that Sandra A. VanGilder, a New York-based Read more
Microsoft Bing quickly backed away from their Japan Quake Twitter campaign once the outrage began from Twitter users. On Saturday, its official Twitter account, @bing, said they would donate a $1 for every retweet they get of their pledge to donate up to $100,000. Some users started fuming and saw it as "exploitation" of tragic events happening in Japan. "just write the goddam cheque and cut out Read more
The Forbes list of 100 most powerful women is out, and this year it was all about global influence and social media. For the fifth time, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken the No. 1 spot as the most powerful woman, with White House women Hillary Clinton (2) and Michelle Obama (8) coming in close behind. There were a handful of execs from Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, and Twitter on the list, Read more
Forbes's list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women has been released, and we're excited to see quite a few techies in the group. Forbes selects candidates within six categories: billionaires, business, lifestyle (including entertainment and fashion), media, nonprofits, and politics. From those categories, each person is ranked upon three metrics: "dollars, a traditional and social media Read more
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Today marks the 100th year we're celebrating the International Women's Day, a holiday that celebrates the power of women all over the world. We've come a long way in gender equality, and yet there is still a steep corporate ladder for us to climb. Although there are strong women role models for us to look up to, there are still too few around — only 3 percent of the Forbes 500 companies in the Read more
