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Title: Forbes, August 4, 2014

Author: Forbes

Narrator: Ken Borgers

Format: Highlights

Length: 1 hr and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-04-14

Publisher: Forbes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Welcome to Forbes for August 4th, 2014 from Audible. This edition contains seven feature articles. In the cover story, we'll tell you about "The Recession Generation: How Millennials Are Changing Money Management Forever" - They're richer than you think. They're more scared than their elders. And they're ripe for the picking. Inside the race to cash in on Millennials' trillions.

Also, "Silicon Ivy: How Cornell Is Prepping Young Entrepreneurs" Cornell ranks fourth on FORBES annual list of Americas most entrepreneurial colleges. Now the university is taking its most daring step yet.

Next, "Startup Schools: America's Most Entrepreneurial Universities" - FORBES ranked the nations most entrepreneurial research universities based on their entrepreneurial ratios the number of alumni and students who have identified themselves as founders and business owners on LinkedIn against the schools total student body. Some of our findings may surprise you.

We'll also tell you about, "The Invisible Force Behind College Admissions" - Iowa-based consultancy Noel-Levitz might be the most influential force in higher education pricing that youve never heard of, empowering whats become a three-stage, market-distorting game for college administrators.

Then, "Puma Biotech's Overnight Billionaire on One of His Keys to Success" - Alan Auerbach explains why it makes sense to locate his biotech firm in Los Angeles.

Followed by, "The Current Spasm in Islam" - The West should be encouraging the secularist elements that exist in Islamic territories.

And in our final story, "The $17 Million Pocket Watch: The Henry Graves Supercomplication Goes Up for Auction" - What makes a watch the most valuable in the world? Its supercomplicatedliterally.

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Title: Forbes, July 14, 2014

Author: Forbes

Narrator: Ken Borgers

Format: Highlights

Length: 1 hr and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-14-14

Publisher: Forbes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Welcome to Forbes for July 14, 2014 from Audible. This edition contains seven feature articles. In the cover story, "175 Years Later, The Mellons Have Never Been Richer. How'd They Do It?" Most of America's Gilded Age fortunes have dissipated over time. Yet, two centuries after Thomas Mellon arrived in America his family, the Mellons are worth $12 billion.

Also, "America's Richest Families: 185 Clans with Billion Dollar Fortunes" - The Waltons. The Kennedys. The Rockefellers. Forbes has compiled the first comprehensive ranking of the richest families in America, pinning down 185 billion-dollar dynasties collectively worth $1.2 trillion.

Next, "Sky Scrappers: World Trade Center Is a Risk for Everyone Involved - Except The Durst Family": To understand how the Dursts ended up running One World Trade you need to go back a decade and step through one of the most epic, controversial real estate sagas in New York City history.

Then, "How to Blow $9 Billion: The Fallen Stroh Family" - The Stroh's saga serves as a powerful reminder: Hard as it is to build a family business designed to last in perpetuity, its shockingly easy for any successor to tank it.

We'll also tell you about, "David Crane's Green Vision for Carbon-Belching NRG Energy" - NRG Energy is one of the nation's biggest operators of carbon-belching power plants. No wonder CEO David Crane is so keen to become the emperor of alternative energy.

Followed by, "That Sinking Feeling" - Every armchair pirate dreams of finding sunken treasure, but it turns out hauling up chests full of gold bars and pieces of eight is a lousy way to get rich.

And in our final story, "Vc View: Investable Trends" - Spot pricing for health care procedures will become the norm.

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Title: Forbes, June 2, 2014

Author: Forbes

Narrator: Ken Borgers

Format: Highlights

Length: 1 hr and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-02-14

Publisher: Forbes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Welcome to Forbes for June 2nd, 2014 from Audible. This edition contains seven feature articles. In the cover story: "Inside New CEO Mary Barra's Urgent Mission to Fix GM" -- Mary Barra made history by working her way into Detroit's car-guy club and becoming the first female CEO of General Motors. Now can she fix the company?

Also, "Philip Morris International Bets Big on the Future of Smoking" -- Cigarette smoking kills an estimated 5.4 million people a year worldwide, but recent history has demonstrated that people, especially in Eastern Europe and Asia, still figure out a way to get their fix. PMI is trying to help the worlds smokers get that fix in a way that a) doesnt eventually kill half of them, and b) replicates the aspects of smoking that got a lot of them hooked in the first place.

Next, "Healthy Franchise: How Right At Home Is Banking on the Senior Boom" -- Senior care company Right at Home stands apart from rivals with its emphasis on training and support, its use of nurses where many competitors offer only personal aides, and its sector-leading move into international markets. Its all prelude to a worldwide explosion in senior care in the coming decades.

Then, "Crash Diet: After Shedding Thousands of Locations, Can Curves Get Back in Shape?" Long billed as a 30-minute strength-training, weight-loss miracle for women, Curves International has been shedding franchise locations faster than it can sell them. Now, new owner North Castle Partners is hatching a turnaround plan.

We'll also tell you about, "The Case for Coal" -- Shares in coal companies have plunged as draconian regulations and falling natural gas prices cripple U-S miners. Looks like a perfect time to buy.

Followed by, "'Mat' in America: U-S Manufacture Succeeds for WeatherTech" -- By wrapping $150 car floor liners in the flag, WeatherTech's David MacNeil is creating one of the world's more unlikely luxury brands.

And in our final story, "Buys and Sells: If Colleges Were Stocks" -- The expensive American liberal arts colleges are going down--fast and furious.

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Title: Audible Fast Company, June 2014

Author: Fast Company

Narrator: Ken Borgers

Format: Highlights

Length: 1 hr and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-14

Publisher: Fast Company

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

In this issue:

The Top-40 selections from Fast Company's list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business.

"Just Because Youre Quiet Doesnt Mean You Cant Be Heard": How being heard over the noise means being well prepared, well-practiced, and quick on your feet.

"Marc Andreesen on How to Turn Impossible Ideas Into Successful Businesses."

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Title: Forbes, May 12, 2014

Author: Forbes

Narrator: Ken Borgers

Format: Highlights

Length: 1 hr and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-12-14

Publisher: Forbes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Welcome to Forbes for May 12, 2014 from Audible. This edition contains seven feature articles. In the cover story: Is This How We'll Cure Cancer? With a radical new treatment, Joseph Jimenez is dedicating Novartis to one overarching mission: vanquishing mankind's ancient adversary. Its breakthrough might be the most tangible -- ever. . . .

Also, The World's Largest Companies: Is This China's Century? The FORBES Global 2000 is a comprehensive list of the worlds largest, most powerful public companies, as measured by revenues, profits, assets and market value.

Next, Nadella's Bid to Fix Microsoft: What Ballmer Didn't Dare 100 days in Nadella has established himself as the anti-Ballmer; theres less talk about seizing billion-dollar opportunities or hitting financial targets and more emphasis on investing profits to win hordes of new users.

Then, Amazon's Wholesale Slaughter: Jeff Bezos' $8 Trillion B2B Bet Forget the delivery drones and TV deals. Jeff Bezos stealthy foray into the unsexy world of B2B distribution is likely his most disruptive move yet and it has an $8 trillion swath of the economy running scared.

We'll also tell you how Nielsen Is About to Help Programmers Profit from Your Online TV Viewing Thanks to new partnerships with Google and Facebook, Nielsen can now track everything you view, even on your phone, laptop, or tablet.

Followed by, Why the Left Should Love Big Profits French economist and darling of the left Thomas Piketty is the latest in an endless array of economists who are clueless regarding profits and what brings about prosperity and a higher standard of living.

And in our final story, Forget Piketty Data Fascism Is the Bigger Threat A specter is haunting American capitalism. No, its not a French economist. Rather, it's the ghost of Frederick Taylor, dressed up in the fashionable clothes of big data and predictive analytics.

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Title: Audible Fast Company, May 2014

Author: Fast Company

Narrator: Ken Borgers

Format: Highlights

Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-14

Publisher: Fast Company

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

In this issue:

"Chelsea Clinton Makes Her Move": The only child of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is finally carving out her own identity.

"The Truth About Google X": Google Xs top-secret innovation lab is opening up about what it does and how it thinks.

"A Broken Place": The spectacular failure of the startup that was going to save the world.

"Tencent The Secretive, Chinese Tech Giant That Can Rival Facebook and Amazon": A controversial billion dollar company that is now gunning for global expansion.

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Title: Forbes, April 21, 2014

Author: Forbes

Narrator: Ken Borgers

Format: Highlights

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-14

Publisher: Forbes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Welcome to Forbes for April 21st, 2014 from Audible. This edition contains seven feature articles.

In the cover story, we'll tell you about, Harold Hamm: The Billionaire Oilman Fueling America's Recovery Harold Hamm has transformed the U-S oil industry like no one since John D. Rockefeller, while helping to keep domestic prices low--and making himself a $16.9 billion fortune. The great domestic energy boom, he says, is just beginning.

Also, A Lucky Drug Made Pharmacyclics' Robert Duggan a Billionaire. Will Long-Term Success Follow? - Since Duggan took the helm at Pharmacyclics in 2008, its stock has risen fortyfold. But can a manager with no experience hunting for drugs build a successful new drug company?

Next, Lego High-Rise: World's Tallest Modular Apartment Tower Getting Snapped Together in Brooklyn - Companies behind the revolutionary new building process say it's bringing the best of manufacturing and construction together.

We'll also tell you, How Wayfair Sells Nearly $1 Billion Worth of Sofas, Patio Chairs, and Cat Playgrounds - Each month more than 11 million peoplemostly 35- to 65-year-old womenvisit Wayfair.com to browse its massive housewares catalog, an online directory hundreds of times larger than any Sears, Roebuck ever produced. But Wayfair is as much a data miner as it is a retailer.

Then, Can America Spark a New Industrial Revolution? In late March, Forbes gathered more than 300 innovative business leaders, entrepreneurs, academics, and growth-oriented policymakers in Chicago for our first Reinventing America Summit to help foster a budding industrial revolution in the United States.

Followed by, Stanford Is Tops for the Most Satisfied MBA Graduates - America's most selective business school blows away the competition when measuring the satisfaction of its alumni.

And in our final story, Is Vladimir Putin Another Adolf Hitler? Shades of Munich in the West's response to Russia's latest expansionism.

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Title: Audible Fast Company, April 2014

Author: Fast Company

Narrator: Ken Borgers

Format: Highlights

Length: 1 hr and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-14

Publisher: Fast Company

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

In this issue:

Inside the Pixar Braintrust: How the animation powerhouse scored 14 box office hits in a row.

Inside Airbnbs Grand Hotel Plans: How the community marketplace is reimagining the trillion-dollar travel biz.

The Most Dangerous Man in Bitcoin Isnt a Criminal: A U. S. attorney is setting out do what Marc Andreesen, the Winklevoss Twins, and Cryptocurrency nuts couldnt do clean up Bitcoin.

The Secrets of a Nasty Girl: A young entrepreneur is trying to help other single-minded women make the most of their potential.

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Title: Forbes, March 31, 2014

Author: Forbes

Narrator: Ken Borgers

Format: Highlights

Length: 1 hr and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-14

Publisher: Forbes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Welcome to Forbes for March 31st, 2014 from Audible. This edition contains seven feature articles.

In the cover story, we'll tell you about, The Best Venture Capitalists in The World for 2014 - Every tech investor dreams of striking gold with a portfolio full of big exits. Here are this years best of the best.

Also, Inside Sequoia Capital: Silicon Valley's Innovation Factory - Sequoia Capital has emerged as Silicon Valley's search engine for disruption--and billionaires -- with its prescient support of companies such as WhatsApp, Dropbox, and Airbnb. That's why the firm dominates FORBES' 2014 Midas List.

Next, Look Who Sequoia Bankrolls: These 13 Tech Titans Stand Out - Over the years, Sequoia Capital has bankrolled a long list of legendary Silicon Valley companies, starting with Apple, Cisco Systems and Yahoo and going on to include disruptive new players such as WhatsApp, Airbnb, and Dropbox. Most of the time, Sequoias list of top investments is just that: a list. But on a recent Thursday evening, the roster came to life.

Then, Merger Mania Fueled by Accounting Rules That Can Make a Bad Deal Look Good - A funny thing happened after Facebook announced it was spending $19 billion to buy WhatsApp; its stock went up 6% over the next two weeks. Traditionally investors have punished the stocks of big acquirers. Not this year.

We'll also tell you about, Vince McMahon's Over-the-Top Move: Why the Billionaire CEO Is Betting Big on the New WWE Network - the 68-year-old chairman and CEO has built the company from a solid regional operation to a powerful international brand thats valued at $2.3 billion.

Followed by, China Unfettered: Redefining the Rules of the Seas - A rising China is seeking to assert its sea-boundary claims. It is naive to believe that a strong China will accept the conventional definition of what parts of the sea around it are under its jurisdiction.

And in our final story, Baseball's Highest-Paid Players 2014 - Sky-high local cable deals and the lack of a salary cap have combined to fuel a surge in massive contracts in baseball across the country.

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Title: Forbes, February 17, 2014

Author: Forbes

Narrator: Ken Borgers

Format: Highlights

Length: 1 hr and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-17-14

Publisher: Forbes

Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy

Publisher's Summary:

Welcome to Forbes for February 17th, 2014 from Audible. We have seven feature articles for you. In the cover story, Can PayPal Beat Apple, Google, Amazon, and Icahn in the Wallet Wars? PayPal is battling for control of transactions and its destiny.

Also, The Forbes 2014 Retirement Guide - The latest advice on maximizing your income and happiness and minimizing your taxes in retirement. We have six articles for you from the Retirement Guide.

First, Leverage Your Way to a Richer Retirement - In the new retirement, sprinters finish last while distance runners prevail. And risk is not necessarily a four-letter word.

Then, IRA Exit Strategy - Challenge: extract the money from an oversize retirement account without getting destroyed by the new higher tax rates.

We'll also tell you about, Freebasing Your Estate - Time to stop worrying about death taxes and start worrying about the capital gains tax.

Followed by, Generation Roth: Millennials Discover the Secret to a Tax-Free Retirement - Millennials need flexibility and a hedge against higher tax rates.

Also, Golden Oldies: How to Become a Music Publishing Mogul - Music copyright: an investment that throws off both cash and good vibrations.

And in our final story, Follow Your Bliss - Twenty-five top places to retire, based on your passions.