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Brightbridge is a world-wide private equity firm with the resources and expertise to source, evaluate, and manage private investments globally in both developed and developing markets and across many industrial and commercial sectors.
Brightbridge is manager of -- or principal advisor to -- private equity funds covering Asia, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the Islamic countries that span the globe from North Africa through the Middle East and into Asia. These funds represent aggregate capital commitments of nearly $6.0 billion and several are the largest of their kind in their particular region.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Double bombing in Iraq kills 27, injures dozens
http://brightbridgewealthmanagement-mag.com/2011/05/brightbridge-wealth-management-headlines-double-bombing-in-iraq-kills-27-injures-dozens/Kirkuk is rife with ethnic and sectarian tensions among Arabs, Kurds and Turkmens, all of whom view themselves as the rightful owners of the province with immense oil reserves. The Kurds wish to annex the area to their semiautonomous Kurdistan region, while Arabs insist it should be under Baghdad’s control. Despite eight years of U.S.-backed efforts to mediate a solution, the sides remain at loggerheads.
Armed groups hope to exploit the population’s differences with bombings and killings.
On Thursday, a bomb hidden in a car exploded in a parking lot where police officers and Kurdish intelligence officers often mingle and drink tea. Eight people were wounded, all of them police. Officers worried about damage to their cars rushed to the parking lot and right into a trap: The attackers then detonated a second car bomb, which witnesses and security officials said killed 27 people.
“I always left my car in this park. Most of our friends left their cars in this place,” said police officer Fadl Ahmed. “I saw about 20 policemen’s bodies. There were too many wounded. Everyone was crying. There was too much blood all over the place.”
Ahmed mourned his friends. “I saw one of my officers. I had said good morning to him by the lot and when I came back, he was dead.”
Armed groups hope to exploit the population’s differences with bombings and killings.
On Thursday, a bomb hidden in a car exploded in a parking lot where police officers and Kurdish intelligence officers often mingle and drink tea. Eight people were wounded, all of them police. Officers worried about damage to their cars rushed to the parking lot and right into a trap: The attackers then detonated a second car bomb, which witnesses and security officials said killed 27 people.
“I always left my car in this park. Most of our friends left their cars in this place,” said police officer Fadl Ahmed. “I saw about 20 policemen’s bodies. There were too many wounded. Everyone was crying. There was too much blood all over the place.”
Ahmed mourned his friends. “I saw one of my officers. I had said good morning to him by the lot and when I came back, he was dead.”
Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines:USDA food pyramid out, food plate in (PICTURES)
http://brightbridge-wealthmanagement.com/2011/06/brightbridge-wealth-management-headlinesusda-food-pyramid-out-food-plate-in-pictures/
It’s going to be hard not to do better than the current pyramid, which basically conveys no useful information,” Dr. Walter C. Willett, chairman of the nutrition department at the Harvard School of Public Health, told the New York Times.
The new design incorporates seven key dietary messages:
- Enjoy your food, but eat less
- Avoid oversized portions
- Make half your plate fruits and vegetables
- Drink water instead of sugary drinks
- Make at least half your grains whole grains
- Switch to fat-free or low-fat (1 percent) milk
- Compare sodium in foods like soup, bread, and frozen meals – and choose the foods with lower numbers.
It’s going to be hard not to do better than the current pyramid, which basically conveys no useful information,” Dr. Walter C. Willett, chairman of the nutrition department at the Harvard School of Public Health, told the New York Times.
The new design incorporates seven key dietary messages:
- Enjoy your food, but eat less
- Avoid oversized portions
- Make half your plate fruits and vegetables
- Drink water instead of sugary drinks
- Make at least half your grains whole grains
- Switch to fat-free or low-fat (1 percent) milk
- Compare sodium in foods like soup, bread, and frozen meals – and choose the foods with lower numbers.
Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Swiss Stocks Rise; Syngenta, UBS, Bucher Shares Climb in Zurich
http://www.transworldnews.com/749340/c8/brightbridge-wealth-management-headlines-swiss-stocks-rise-syngenta-ubs-bucher-shares-climb-in-zurich
Syngenta AG, the
Basel, Switzerland-based pesticides maker, climbed 1.7 percent. UBS AG added
0.8 percent.
Basel, Switzerland-based pesticides maker, climbed 1.7 percent. UBS AG added
0.8 percent.
The Swiss Market
Index of the biggest and most actively traded companies rose 0.5 percent to
6,527.16 at 10:28 a.m. in Zurich. The benchmark has rallied 8.4 percent since
March 16 as company earnings exceeded estimates. The broader Swiss Performance
Index increased 0.5 percent.
Index of the biggest and most actively traded companies rose 0.5 percent to
6,527.16 at 10:28 a.m. in Zurich. The benchmark has rallied 8.4 percent since
March 16 as company earnings exceeded estimates. The broader Swiss Performance
Index increased 0.5 percent.
Syngenta added
1.7 percent to 292.5 Swiss francs after announcing the launch of Vibrance, a
seed treatment fungicide based on the new active ingredient sedaxane.
1.7 percent to 292.5 Swiss francs after announcing the launch of Vibrance, a
seed treatment fungicide based on the new active ingredient sedaxane.
UBS, Switzerland’s
largest bank, increased 0.8 percent to 16.25 francs, its first gain in six
days.
largest bank, increased 0.8 percent to 16.25 francs, its first gain in six
days.
Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Facebook executive takes heat in hearing on privacy
http://www.your-story.org/brightbridge-wealth-management-headlines-facebook-executive-takes-heat-in-hearing-on-privacy-244771/
A leading senator, angry that Facebook Inc. failed to stop millions of preteens from using its social networking site, accused co-founder Mark Zuckerberg of lacking “social values” and being more concerned with building the company than with children’s privacy.
“It’s my general feeling that people who are 20, 21, 22 years old really don’t have any social values at this point,” Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) told another top Facebook executive at a hearing Thursday.
“I think he was focused on how the business model would work,” Rockefeller said about Zuckerberg, who was a 19-year-old Harvard student when he created Facebook in 2004. “He wanted to make it bigger and faster and better than anybody else ever had.”
The company’s policy requires users to be at least 13, a move designed to avoid federal regulations for websites used by young children. But a recent Consumer Reports survey found that about 7.5 million active Facebook users were younger than 13.
Rockefeller’s comments came as a Facebook executive for the first time came under congressional quizzing in a recent round of hearings about concerns that technology companies are not protecting personal privacy. Executives from Apple Inc. and Google Inc., which sent witnesses to a hearing last week, also appeared at Thursday’s hearing before a Commerce subcommittee.
Rockefeller, a key player on technology issues, and other lawmakers are considering new regulations to protect online privacy, particularly for children. The issue has gained momentum with the recent revelation that an obscure file on iPhones and iPads could store thousands of detailed records of a user’s whereabouts.
Rockefeller said he was recently told by Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg that the company has only 100 people monitoring the posts and other activities of about 600 million users.
“My reaction to that is that’s just absolutely indefensible,” Rockefeller told Facebook Chief Technology Officer Bret Taylor, saying he was worried about children being targeted by sexual predators and online bullies. “I want you to defend your company here because I don’t know how you can.”
Taylor said Facebook shuts down the accounts of people found to be lying about their age to avoid the company’s restriction.
“We don’t allow people to misrepresent their age,” Taylor said.
But he admitted Facebook depended on other users to report such violations to enforce the policy.
The under-age problem at Facebook showed that big technology companies have not made privacy a top priority, said Amy Guggenheim Shenkan, president of Common Sense Media, a nonprofit children and family advocacy group.
Such hugely successful innovators should be able to create ways to better protect children’s privacy, Shenkan said. She then took a swipe at Facebook for hiring a high-powered public-relations firm to push news organizations to write negative stories about privacy issues at Google.
A leading senator, angry that Facebook Inc. failed to stop millions of preteens from using its social networking site, accused co-founder Mark Zuckerberg of lacking “social values” and being more concerned with building the company than with children’s privacy.
“It’s my general feeling that people who are 20, 21, 22 years old really don’t have any social values at this point,” Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) told another top Facebook executive at a hearing Thursday.
“I think he was focused on how the business model would work,” Rockefeller said about Zuckerberg, who was a 19-year-old Harvard student when he created Facebook in 2004. “He wanted to make it bigger and faster and better than anybody else ever had.”
The company’s policy requires users to be at least 13, a move designed to avoid federal regulations for websites used by young children. But a recent Consumer Reports survey found that about 7.5 million active Facebook users were younger than 13.
Rockefeller’s comments came as a Facebook executive for the first time came under congressional quizzing in a recent round of hearings about concerns that technology companies are not protecting personal privacy. Executives from Apple Inc. and Google Inc., which sent witnesses to a hearing last week, also appeared at Thursday’s hearing before a Commerce subcommittee.
Rockefeller, a key player on technology issues, and other lawmakers are considering new regulations to protect online privacy, particularly for children. The issue has gained momentum with the recent revelation that an obscure file on iPhones and iPads could store thousands of detailed records of a user’s whereabouts.
Rockefeller said he was recently told by Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg that the company has only 100 people monitoring the posts and other activities of about 600 million users.
“My reaction to that is that’s just absolutely indefensible,” Rockefeller told Facebook Chief Technology Officer Bret Taylor, saying he was worried about children being targeted by sexual predators and online bullies. “I want you to defend your company here because I don’t know how you can.”
Taylor said Facebook shuts down the accounts of people found to be lying about their age to avoid the company’s restriction.
“We don’t allow people to misrepresent their age,” Taylor said.
But he admitted Facebook depended on other users to report such violations to enforce the policy.
The under-age problem at Facebook showed that big technology companies have not made privacy a top priority, said Amy Guggenheim Shenkan, president of Common Sense Media, a nonprofit children and family advocacy group.
Such hugely successful innovators should be able to create ways to better protect children’s privacy, Shenkan said. She then took a swipe at Facebook for hiring a high-powered public-relations firm to push news organizations to write negative stories about privacy issues at Google.
Brightbridge Wealth Management Headlines: Swiss Stocks Rise; Syngenta, UBS, Bucher Shares Climb in Zurich
http://www.saeo.net/brightbridge%20wealth%20management/
Syngenta AG, the Basel, Switzerland-based pesticides maker, climbed 1.7 percent. UBS AG added 0.8 percent.
The Swiss Market Index of the biggest and most actively traded companies rose 0.5 percent to 6,527.16 at 10:28 a.m. in Zurich. The benchmark has rallied 8.4 percent since March 16 as company earnings exceeded estimates. The broader Swiss Performance Index increased 0.5 percent.
Syngenta added 1.7 percent to 292.5 Swiss francs after announcing the launch of Vibrance, a seed treatment fungicide based on the new active ingredient sedaxane.
UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, increased 0.8 percent to 16.25 francs, its first gain in six days.
Bucher Industries AG rose 1.6 percent to 209.3 francs. The agricultural machinery maker said its Kuhn Group unit has a licensing and manufacturing agreement with Deere & Co. to cooperate on large square balers.
Syngenta AG, the Basel, Switzerland-based pesticides maker, climbed 1.7 percent. UBS AG added 0.8 percent.
The Swiss Market Index of the biggest and most actively traded companies rose 0.5 percent to 6,527.16 at 10:28 a.m. in Zurich. The benchmark has rallied 8.4 percent since March 16 as company earnings exceeded estimates. The broader Swiss Performance Index increased 0.5 percent.
Syngenta added 1.7 percent to 292.5 Swiss francs after announcing the launch of Vibrance, a seed treatment fungicide based on the new active ingredient sedaxane.
UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, increased 0.8 percent to 16.25 francs, its first gain in six days.
Bucher Industries AG rose 1.6 percent to 209.3 francs. The agricultural machinery maker said its Kuhn Group unit has a licensing and manufacturing agreement with Deere & Co. to cooperate on large square balers.
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