The site now has 12, 000 members and has conducted more than 5, 000 live auctions over the past year, providing it with enough liquidity to start compiling real-time market trends and indices.

ECONOMIST: B2B exchanges

At IBM he mastered a software trick called "just-in-time compiling, " which analyzes the flow of instructions surging toward a microchip and identifies all the repetitive or redundant steps that can be eliminated.

FORBES: Hardwired

Bottom-of-the-table Warwickshire's batsmen were no match for Notts' seam attack, with Varun Chopra the only batsman to pass 21 in either innings, compiling 54 second time around before being bowled by Sidebottom, while Tim Ambrose collected a pair.

BBC: Warwickshire blown away by Nottinghamshire attack

During that time, he began compiling a list of China's leading businesspeople, 15 homegrown entrepreneurs who Hoogewerf believes are China's wealthiest.

FORBES: Chinese Capitalism Gets a Face

But he noted that for the first time this year that when compiling data for supply and demand tables, his firm is adding a new category: diamond recycling.

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It is the first time that Man Utd has lost the top spot since Forbes first started compiling its list in 2004.

BBC: Real Madrid overtakes Man Utd in Forbes rich list

Compiling encyclopaedic works with the urge to universalize, Goddess writers have rarely looked closely enough at any one time and place to see the specific detail, or the value of differences between cultures.

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