Metro, Top 10 Financial Institution, 25 worst password.

Todays topics are.

1. What is concept of metro cash and carry stores?
2. 25 Worst Passwords of 2011
3. 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.