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Monaco Couple Donates €2 Million To Hospital

May 05, 2021, 09:52am
By Nancy Heslin Forbes Monaco

The Princess Grace Hospital Center (CHPG) received a cheque for €2 million euros on Tuesday. The generous donation comes from Monaco residents, Angela and Jean Garavagno. “Over many years of contact with CHPG, we have been able to…

Monaco Grand Prix Open To Everyone

May 04, 2021, 02:08pm
By Nancy Heslin Forbes Monaco

The government has announced today that anyone can attend the 78th Grand Prix from May 20 to 23. However, foreign visitors, spouses of employees in Monaco, and residents of the Alpes-Maritimes and Var must provide a negative PCR test taken…

Bill And Melinda Gates Announce Divorce

May 04, 2021, 11:10am
By Melissa Holzberg Forbes U.S. Staff

Bill and Melinda Gates, who jointly run the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest private philanthropic foundation, announced on Monday they will divorce after 27 years of marriage. KEY FACTS - The Microsoft co-founder tweeted that…

A Look At The Best Event Marketing Strategies

May 03, 2021, 05:56pm
By Rumble Romagnoli Contributor

HNW and UHNW clients are renowned for being extremely discerning, and for good reason. This audience will pay what most of the world would consider extremely high prices for items, not just because they are interested in what the product does…

Breakfast Is Back In Monaco As Health Measures Extend To May 16

Apr 30, 2021, 08:40pm
By Nancy Heslin Forbes Monaco

Prince Albert is extending all current health measures until Sunday, May 16, with a few changes this time round. Bars that serve breakfast can open under certain conditions and sports practice will be allowed with strict health protocol in…

Macron Outlines Plan To End Confinement In France

Apr 30, 2021, 07:44am
By Nancy Heslin Forbes Monaco

President Emmanuel Macron has outlined a 4-phase plan for France to progressively end lockdown from May 3 but has said the government will put on the “emergency brakes” should additional outbreaks occur. The president provided details…

Will Macron End Curfew June 2? French President To Address Nation (Again) On Friday

By Nancy Heslin Forbes Monaco

At a press conference Wedesday afternoon, prime minister Jean Castex announced “we are in a real…

Australia And France Are The Latest Countries To Prioritize Olympic Athletes For Covid-19 Vaccine

By Alison Durkee Forbes U.S. Staff

Olympic athletes in Australia and France will be part of a higher priority group for getting the Covid-19…

Vaccinated Americans Will Reportedly Be Allowed Back In Europe This Summer

By Carlie Porterfield Forbes U.S. Staff

American holidaymakers who have received a coronavirus vaccine will be permitted to enter the European…

Instime Cofounder Vadim Mashurov On Success

Vadim Mashurov grew up with “ingenuity and innovation” on the brain. The Ukrainian managed…

1 The Influence of Affluence: Why Monaco Is Key For Luxury Goods

2 Monaco Chooses UseCrypt Technology As A Future Type Of Communication

3 Enjoy The Great Future Of Digital Era

4 Nok-On Effect

5 Into The Wild

6 Rethinking The Future Of Luxury Fashion In Monaco

7 How will COVID-19 impact the future of air travel?

8 On The Rock: Monaco Gin Sells Out In First Run

9 COFFE That Is Not To Drink

10 Massa Races At First Virtual Le Mans This Weekend To Help Princess Charlene Raise Money For Covid Vaccine

Billionaires

Australia And France Are The Latest Countries To Prioritize Olympic Athletes For Covid-19 Vaccine

By Alison Durkee Forbes U.S. Staff

Olympic athletes in Australia and France will be part of a higher priority group for getting the Covid-19 vaccine, the countries’ governments said Tuesday, part of a growing collection of nations that are trying to ensure athletes…

‘Extraordinary Life And Work’: Tributes Pour In As U.K.’s Prince Philip Dies Aged 99

Tributes are pouring in for Prince Philip, the 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II, who died Friday…

Moderna CEO Makes Forbes Billionaires List, IMF Forecasts, EU Unemployment And France Says ‘International Taxation Within Reach’

By Nancy Heslin Forbes Monaco

On Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) slightly raised its 2021 growth forecast for the euro…

The Groundbreaker

He was inspired to play golf at Harvard after seeing Love Story, built two billion-dollar companies…

France Eases Travel Ban On U.K., But Covid-19 Testing Rules Cause Massive Backlog At Border

By Siladitya Ray Forbes U.S. Staff

France has agreed to allow freight and passengers who have tested negative for Covid-19 to enter its…

Zoom Founder Eric Yuan’s Fortune Falls $3.1 Billion As Stock Plunges Following Earnings Report

By Sergei Klebnikov Forbes U.S. Staff

Billionaire Philip Green Continues To Fight As His Arcadia Retail Empire Denies Reports Of Imminent Collapse

By David Dawkins Forbes U.S. Staff

Elon Musk Passes Mark Zuckerberg To Become The World’s Fourth Richest Person

By Sergei Klebnikov Forbes U.S. Staff

Money

China’s Economy Surged 18.3% In The First Quarter Of 2021

By Sarah Hansen Forbes U.S. Staff

New York Times Sells Column For Over $550k In NFT Experiment

By Jemima McEvoy Forbes U.S. Staff

Money

Tesla Has Plunged 25% And Lost $200 Billion In Market Value Since Its Bitcoin Investment

By Jonathan Ponciano Forbes U.S. Staff

Tesla’s meteoric tear is unraveling this month as experts start to worry that the stock’s performance could start to mimic bitcoin’s extreme volatility after the firm disclosed a $1.5 billion investment in the world’s…

Crypto Surge Continues: Market Up $750 Billion, Nearly Doubling This Month As Bitcoin Hits New Highs

By Jonathan Ponciano Forbes U.S. Staff

Bitcoin's massive rally continued into the weekend, pushing the market capitalization of the world's…

Bitcoin Surges To An All Time High Of $48,000 As Tesla Signals Its Confidence

By Robert Hart Forbes U.S. Staff

Bitcoin’s price reached another record high Tuesday, pushing past $48,000 after electric car giant…

BlackRock Files To Add Bitcoin Futures To Funds

By Sarah Hansen Forbes U.S. Staff

Investment giant BlackRock filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission showing that…

What 2020’s Most Expensive Painting Says About The Art Market

By Carlie Porterfield Forbes U.S. Staff

A Francis Bacon triptych that went for $84.5 million at Sotheby’s was the most expensive artwork…

Business

Instime Cofounder Vadim Mashurov On Success

Vadim Mashurov grew up with “ingenuity and innovation” on the brain. The Ukrainian managed to secure his first paid IT job working remotely for an American team when he was only 14 and is now rated one of the top IT entrepreneurs…

As Burberry Faces Backlash In China Over Xinjiang Cotton, Other Luxury Brands Could Face Boycott

By Isabel Togoh Staff

British designer Burberry is the first luxury brand to be targeted in China in a backlash against western…

Birkenstock Billionaires Unveiled After German Sandal Maker Agrees To Sell In A $4.7 Billion Deal

By Lauren Debter Forbes U.S. Staff

Two heirs to one of Germany’s best-known footwear brands emerged as billionaires after agreeing…

Adidas To Unload Reebok And Focus On Own Brand

By Robert Hart Forbes U.S. Staff

German sportswear company Adidas plans to sell its underperforming Reebok brand—some 15 years…

Leclerc Commits To Made In France Masks And Cheaper Food For Students

By Nancy Heslin Forbes Monaco

Michel-Edouard Leclerc announced this morning on BFM-TV that the retail chain will be making made in…

Already Struggling, Trump’s European Properties Lost More Than 60% Of Revenue Last Year

By Dan Alexander Forbes U.S. Staff

Russia ‘Not Expecting Anything Good’ From U.S. Under Biden

By Andrew Solender Forbes U.S. Staff

Amazon, Apple Refuse To Sign French Big Tech Initiative That Outlines Taxation Principles

By Siladitya Ray Forbes U.S. Staff

Innovation

‘Vaccine Passports’ Could Reopen Global Travel—And Lead To Discrimination, Critics Say

By Siladitya Ray Forbes U.S. Staff

EU Approves J&J Single-Shot Covid-19 Vaccine As The Bloc’s Vaccination Crisis Rumbles On

By Robert Hart Forbes U.S. Staff

Innovation

‘A Pivotal Moment’: U.K. Rolls Out Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Amid Covid-19 Surge

By Robert Hart Forbes U.S. Staff

British officials celebrated Monday as the country accelerated its Covid-19 immunization campaign will the rollout over 500,000 doses of the newly-approved vaccine developed by pharma giant AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, with health…

Apple Is Reportedly Creating Its Own Search Engine Amid Google’s Antitrust Woes

By Robert Hart Forbes U.S. Staff

Apple is intensifying long-standing efforts to beat Google at its own game by building its own rival…

Nokia To Build Cell Network On Moon

By Robert Hart Forbes U.S. Staff

Nokia will build the first cellular network on the moon as part of a NASA project intended to establish…

New iPhones Won’t Come With Headphones Or A Charging Box Anymore

By Rachel Sandler Forbes U.S. Staff

Apple will no longer include a pair of wired headphones or a power adapter with new iPhones, the company…

Facebook, Instagram Users Will Soon Be Able To Send Each Other Direct Messages

By Siladitya Ray Forbes U.S. Staff

Facebook will soon allow people on the social media platform to send direct messages to Instagram users…

Lifestyle

France Suspends All Flights With Brazil

Prime minister Jean Castex has just announced during a questions to the government session, “We have decided to suspend all flights between Brazil and France until further notice.” The highly contagious Brazilian variant which is…

Air France Announces 22 New Destinations As Its Set To Receive €4 Billion More In Aid

By Nancy Heslin Forbes Monaco

Air France announced today its 2021 summer schedule with 22 new destinations to France, Europe and North…

Quick Getaway: Monaco to Limone

By Nancy Heslin Forbes Monaco

Six years after the first train reached Limone Piemonte in 1891, the town had transformed into a ski…

Vive La Villégiature!

Article first published in Forbes Monaco September/October 2020 issue. How one luxury resort in…

A Lot Can Happen In Less Than 20 Seconds

Article first published in Forbes Monaco September/October 2020 issue. As Covid continues to disrupt…

A Massif Getaway

Qatar Planning For ‘Normal’ Post-Pandemic FIFA World Cup In 2022

By Carlie Porterfield Forbes U.S. Staff

Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ Should Include Disclaimer That It’s Fiction, U.K. Culture Official Says

By Carlie Porterfield Forbes U.S. Staff

Featured

Post-Covid-19: Investing In An Uncertain World

By Norman Villamin Contributor

A Classic Beauty

By Nancy Heslin Forbes Monaco

Featured

All Roads Lead to Todt

By Nancy Heslin Forbes Monaco

From Karting to F1, this manager drives careers. Manager Nicolas Todt does not fall far from the F1 tree. His father, Jean, a driver turned-Director of Racing at Peugeot then Ferrari, has twice been re-elected to his current position of President…

Charles In Charge

By Nancy Heslin Forbes Monaco

Not even halfway through his first Formula One season, Charles Leclerc is admittedly determined to shake…

These Boots Are Made For Walgreens

By Celina Lafuente De Lavotha Contributor

The annual Monte-Carlo Women of the Year Award, founded in 2012 by Cinzia Sgambati-Colman, is a cultural…

Breaking News

Bill And Melinda Gates Announce Divorce

By Melissa Holzberg Forbes U.S. Staff

Vaccinated Americans Will Reportedly Be Allowed Back In Europe This Summer

By Carlie Porterfield Forbes U.S. Staff

American holidaymakers who have received a coronavirus vaccine will be permitted to enter the European…

France Will Reopen To Vaccinated Americans This Summer, Macron Says

By Carlie Porterfield Forbes U.S. Staff

Americans will soon be permitted to enter France for the first time in more than a year with vaccine…

U.K. Regulator Recommends Continued Use Of AstraZeneca Vaccine Despite 7 Deaths Linked To Blood Clots

By Tommy Beer Forbes U.S. Staff

Britain's medicines regulator confirmed late Friday that seven people have died from blood clots…

Chinese Hackers Used Facebook To Target Uyghurs With Powerful iPhone And Android Spyware

By Thomas Brewster Forbes U.S. Staff

Facebook is trying to fight back against attacks on Uyghur activists, allegedly carried out by Chinese…

Prince William Says Royals Are ‘Very Much Not A Racist Family’

These European Countries Are Launching Vaccine Passports

By Suzanne Rowan Kelleher Forbes U.S. Staff

Fauci: Covid Vaccines Are Less Effective Against New Strains — But Still Worth Taking

By Joe Walsh Forbes U.S. Staff

Monaco News

Monaco Couple Donates €2 Million To Hospital

By Nancy Heslin Forbes Monaco

Monaco Grand Prix Open To Everyone

By Nancy Heslin Forbes Monaco

Monaco News

A Look At The Best Event Marketing Strategies

By Rumble Romagnoli Contributor

Breakfast Is Back In Monaco As Health Measures Extend To May 16

By Nancy Heslin Forbes Monaco

Prince Albert is extending all current health measures until Sunday, May 16, with a few changes this…

Macron Outlines Plan To End Confinement In France

By Nancy Heslin Forbes Monaco

President Emmanuel Macron has outlined a 4-phase plan for France to progressively end lockdown from…

Will Macron End Curfew June 2? French President To Address Nation (Again) On Friday

By Nancy Heslin Forbes Monaco

At a press conference Wedesday afternoon, prime minister Jean Castex announced “we are in a real…

France To End Confinement Progressively From May 3

By Nancy Heslin Forbes Monaco

Prime minister Jean Castex held a press conference Thursday to announce that the 10 km restriction will…

BrandVoice

The Benefits Of Blockchain In The Educational Sector

By Alexander Belov Contributor

Over the last 18 months the world has surely changed and we live in uncertain times. More so than ever the advancement of technology and innovation is providing solutions for a better and more secure future. The unique data storage and processing…