Forbes

Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, Forbes magazine, is published bi-weekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published bi-weekly, and BusinessWeek. Today the magazine is best known for its lists of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400) and its list of billionaires.

Forbes was founded in 1917 by Scottish immigrant B. C. Forbes, then the leading business columnist for Hearst newspapers. After his death in 1954 his son Bruce became president. Bruce died in 1964 and his brother Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (1917–1990) became Editor-in-Chief and Publisher.
On Malcolm's death, his eldest son Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr. (1947–) became President and Chief Executive of Forbes and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine.[1]. Between 1961 and 1999 the magazine was edited by James Michaels [1]. In 1993, under Michaels, Forbes was a finalist for the National Magazine Award [2]. In 2006, an investment group that includes rock star Bono bought a minority interest in the company [3].
[edit] Other publications
Apart from Forbes and its lifestyle supplement, ForbesLife, the other titles published include Forbes Asia and eight local language editions. The company also publishes American Heritage, American Heritage of Invention & Technology and American Legacy. Steve Forbes and his magazine's writers offer investment advice on the weekly Fox TV show Forbes on Fox and on Forbes On Radio. Other company groups include Forbes Conference Group, Forbes Investment Advisory Group and Forbes Custom Media.
[edit] Web site
David Churbuck founded Forbes' Web site, Forbes.com, in 1996. The site uncovered Stephen Glass' journalistic fraud in The New Republic in 1998, an article that drew attention to internet journalism. The site, like the magazine, publishes many lists focusing on billionaires and their possessions, especially expensive homes, a critical aspect of the website's apparent popularity [4]. See a list of lists below.
Forbes.com employs the advertising slogan "Home Page For The World's Business Leaders" and sometimes claims to be the world's most widely visited business web site [5]. The current president and chief executive officer is James J. Spanfeller; the current editor is Paul Maidment; the current managing editor is Carl Lavin[2], who succeeded founding managing editor Michael Noer [6] and Dan Bigman [7].
Forbes.com also publishes subscription investment newsletters, a luxury-vehicles site, ForbesAutos, a luxury travel site, ForbesTraveler, edited by G. Barry Golson, the former executive editor of Playboy and TV Guide and former editor-in-chief of Yahoo! Internet Life, and an online guide to web sites, Best Of The Web.
[edit] Lists
Forbes creates many lists under various topics, the most popular being perhaps the List of billionaires.
[edit] Companies
200 Best Small Companies
400 Best Big Companies
Forbes 500
Forbes Global 2000, a list of largest companies in the world taking into account market capitalization, revenue, income and assets (this is different from the Fortune Global 500 which is based only on revenues).
Largest Private Companies