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2011 List from Forbes. Background Article List (Presented as a Photo Gallery) Top 5 from a List of 13 1. James Patterson, $84 Million. 2. Danielle Steel, $35 million 3. Stephen King, $28 million 4. Janet Evanovich, $22 million 5. Stephenie Meyer, $21 million
From AdAge: According to ComScore, which will start publishing data on YouTube’s channel partners tomorrow, 40% of YouTube’s audience clicked over in July to watch music videos, more than any other category. Vevo accounted for 38% of YouTube’s entire monthly viewers, easily the most-watched channel within the video-sharing site, and second-place Warner Music accounted for […]
Direct to 2011 Report (36 Pages; PDF) Global Powers of Retailing, from Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL), in conjunction with STORES Media, identifies the 250 largest retailers around the world for the past fiscal year. But the report is much more than a list – it also examines trends for retailers to consider as they […]
Direct to 2011 IndustryWeek 500 (Largest Publicly Held Manufacturing Companies) Rankings Based on Revenue Sort the list by several categories including industry, ranking, and financial performance measures Previous years’ databases of the IW U.S. 500 are also available. 2010 IW U.S. 500 — Based on 2009 annual revenues 2009 IW U.S. 500 — Based on […]
The report comes from the National Insurance Crime Bureau. Summary The National Insurance Crime Bureau today released Hot Wheels—its list of the 10 most stolen vehicles in the United States. The report examines vehicle theft data submitted by law enforcement to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and determines the vehicle make, model, and model […]
From the Office For National Statistics: Oliver retained the top spot this year, with Jack still the second most popular baby name. Charlie rose two places to number five, William climbed up one to number seven and George re-entered the top 10 at number nine, up from eleven last year. James fell one place to […]
From a Mercer Announcement: Luanda in Angola is the world’s most expensive city for expatriates for the second year running, according to Mercer’s 2011 Cost of Living Survey. Tokyo remains in second position and N’Djamena in Chad in third place. Moscow follows in fourth position with Geneva in fifth and Osaka in sixth. Zurich jumps […]
From a PaidContent Article by Laura Hazard-Owen: Today marks the official launch of USA Today’s new books site, books.usatoday.com. The most noticeable changes are to its bestseller list, which now has a more colorful interface and for the first time, features buy links. It’s another way that USA Today’s bestseller list is trying to set […]
From the Digital Curation Centre Blog: We’re often asked where data can be deposited, so it’s great to be able to announce an international list of data repositories initiated by DataCite. The list notes what subject areas the repositories support and outlines any restrictions on data access, licence agreements and identifiers used. From the List: […]
From a PayScale Announcement: PayScale [has released] its Technology Company Salary and Job Satisfaction Report. Using PayScale.com’s extensive database, the company examined the characteristics of the following large/well-known tech companies (excluding retail workers): Amazon, Apple, Dell, Facebook, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and Microsoft. These characteristics include: Job Details: common jobs, typical pay, typical pay premium […]