Until early 1993, Michael Milken understood little about oncology. The multimillionaire junk bond king and, as he was called, “the most powerful man in the financial world since Morgan” had just been released from prison, where he spent almost two years on charges of racketeering and securities fraud. A few days after his release, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. The disease managed to spread to the lymph nodes, so doctors gave Milken at most two years to live. Terrible news.

Thanks to the reforms of Russian Railways and the army, a new industry has emerged in Russia. Businessman Alexander Utkin is its most prominent representative Trucks, one after another, pull up to the four-story building of the Master Cleaning company in northeast Moscow.

The Vacheron Constantin manufactory produces the most remarkable models in limited editions in platinum. The latest ultra-complex Collection Excellence Platine calibers (Patrimony Traditionnelle line) appeared in Moscow for the New Year. Caliber 2755 combines a tourbillon, a minute repeater with silent striker and a perpetual calendar that requires the date to be reset every 400 years.

Four businessmen talk about their best trips of the past year. Alexey Korovin, President of OTP Bank My best trip of 2010 was a trip to Budapest. For the most complete idea of ​​the city, I would recommend three addresses - Vorosmarty ter square with cafes and shops, the Grand Hotel Margitsziget with thermal baths and the Gundel gastronomic restaurant. Vorosmarty ter is located near the famous pedestrian Vaci utca, next to the Kempinski hotel.

FIFA has chosen two future World Cup hosts The results, on the one hand, are unexpected (just think, the World Football Championships will be held in Russia and Qatar!), but on the other hand, they are expected. FIFA has relied on holding championships in the most unexpected places on Earth, and most importantly, on expanding the boundaries of football and creating a “united football” family.

How the United States solves the problems of cities left without work The problem of single-industry towns has long become a global phenomenon. There is not a single developed country whose cities would be immune from changes in the global and domestic markets. When change is unfavorable, some cities face particularly severe social and economic problems. While in Russia this phenomenon is relatively new, in the USA the problem of company towns has existed for about 130 years.

US President Barack Obama has named Russell Travers, deputy head of the National Counterterrorism Center, responsible for information sharing, responsible for carrying out systemic reform needed after thousands of classified US government documents were leaked and published on the WikiLeaks website. reported this on Thursday, December 2 RIA Novosti .

The state may begin the practical implementation of Dmitry Medvedev’s initiative to provide large families with plots of land free of charge as early as 2011. This forecast was given by the Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation, Viktor Basargin, on Thursday. According to him, this measure will affect families with three or more children. Basargin clarified that each regional subject will make its own decision on the area of ​​allocated plots.

What can a marketing department replace? Having decided to create his own business - a leisure club - RSUH graduate Mikhail Blank realized that he had few resources. Definitely not enough for focus groups. So he posted some sketches of logos for the club on his LiveJournal.com blog and asked professionals to evaluate them. As a result, I received the finished logo for free.

How an online store is promoted, expands its range and accelerates sales with the help of various partners Partnerships are in vogue today. In my opinion, a very creative thing. Our partners helped us a lot in promoting and establishing the store (read the beginning of our story here , and here you can see everything I wrote about it). Moreover, with a competent partnership you can greatly improve your financial results: a very interesting and mostly positive experience.

Paul Graham rocks Silicon Valley by putting tech startups on the rise Justin Kahn and Emmett Shear realized that their first startup, the online calendar Kiko, was dying when Google unexpectedly launched a similar service. This was in 2006. The entrepreneurs sold the remains of Kiko on eBay for $258,000 and began to think about what to do next. The first thing they decided to do was visit Paul Graham, who lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Russian stock market on Thursday continued its rally at increased trading volumes along with global stock exchanges, the MICEX index updated its annual peak; The growth leaders were the shares of Wimm-Bill-Dann (WBD), which soared by 61% on the news of the takeover by PepsiCo.

Rusal's proposal to purchase OGK-3 is a move in the corporate conflict at Norilsk Nickel Oleg Deripaska proposed to Norilsk Nickel to sell the energy company OGK-3 for $2 billion. The market reacted positively to this idea, OGK-3 became one of the growth leaders, and analysts, of course, recommend that Norilsk Nickel sell the energy asset. But most likely, there will be no deal between Rusal and Norilsk Nickel regarding OGK-3.

Mikhail Kokorich unexpectedly became the owner of one of the largest Russian networks Mikhail Kokorich’s last position was the general director of Ilim Timber Industry, a subsidiary of the Ilim group, the leader of the Russian pulp and paper industry. The businessman also owns a stake in the Uyterra household goods trading network. At the end of October, it became known that Kokorich is the owner of the companies that inherited the business of the Tekhnosila group.

Enphase Energy makes life easier for solar panel owners. This has already brought her tens of millions of dollars. The idea for a new business came to Martin Fornidge while he was on the roof. In 2005, a successful engineer from Silicon Valley decided to install solar panels. But the DC current they produce is not suitable for a home network. Martin had to call an electrician to install a current converter - according to generally accepted technology, one for the entire system.