Todays topics are.
- What is concept of metro cash and carry stores?
- 25 Worst Passwords of 2011
- The 10 firms that rule the world
METRO's
Cash & Carry business model is based on a Business to Business
(B2B) concept and focuses on meeting all the needs and requirements
of business customers. It is a modern format of wholesale trading,
catering only to business customers.
"Cash & Carry" means that the customers
pick the goods themselves, pay in cash and transport their goods
with their own vehicles. The advantage as compared with conventional
wholesale lies in the more competitive price, the scope of the
food and nonfood assortment, the immediate availability of the
merchandise and the customer-oriented working hours.
SplashData created the rankings based on millions of stolen passwords posted
online by hackers. Here is the complete list:
- 1. password
- 2. 123456
- 3.12345678
- 4. qwerty
- 5. abc123
- 6. monkey
- 7. 1234567
- 8. letmein
- 9. trustno1
- 10. dragon
- 11. baseball
- 12. 111111
- 13. iloveyou
- 14. master
- 15. sunshine
- 16. ashley
- 17. bailey
- 18. passw0rd
- 19. shadow
- 20. 123123
- 21. 654321
- 22. superman
- 23. qazwsx
- 24. michael
- 25. football
SplashData CEO Morgan Slain urges businesses and consumers using any password
on the list to change them immediately.
A significant portion of the global economy flows into the hands of a small
group of financial institutions—that much we’ve known for some time. But in a
new
paper,
flagged by the New York Times’ Economix
blog,
Stefania Vitali, James B. Glattfelder and Stefano Battiston name names. Using a
methodology based on “
network topology,” the Swiss researchers identify which financial actors are
at the core of the global economy.
1. Barclay’s (Great Britain)
2. The Capital Group Companies (U.S.)
3. Fidelity Investments (U.S.)
4. AXA (France)
5. State Street Corporation (U.S.)
6. JP Morgan & Chase (U..S)
7. Legal & General Group (Great
Britain)
8. Vanguard Group (U.S.)
9. UBS (Switzerland)
10. Merrill Lynch (U.S.)
Altogether, the top 10 firms control 19.45 percent of the global financial
network, and the top 50 firms control nearly 40 percent.