Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Attempts to push through the biggest ever foreign acquisition of a Japanese business have taken another possible step forward ...

Profile of the statue of Aphrodite of Milos (Venus de Milo) at the Louvre Museum. Credit: Bradley Weber / Flickr CC BY 2.0 She embodies the universal concepts of beauty, sexual love, and fertility, ...

Nicolette is a lifestyle writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Enthusiastic and ambitious, she's excited to tackle any story — from beauty trends to hard-hitting breaking news, Nicolette brings ...

The company behind hits like “The Matrix” and “Ocean’s Eleven” has filed for bankruptcy, the latest domino to fall in a struggling Hollywood industry. Village Roadshow Entertainment of ...

Developer Double Eleven has given fans their first look at Rust: Console Edition on PS5 and other current-gen platforms, with a teaser that begins with how the game currently looks on PS4, before ...

THE BATTLE for control of Seven & i, the Japanese owner of 7-Eleven, has taken a number of surprising turns since Alimentation-Couche Tard (ACT), a Canadian retailer, offered to acquire the ...

The parent company of 7-Eleven appears to be warming to a possible sale to Quebec-based convenience store owner Alimentation Couche-Tard. In a letter to shareholders, a special committee convened ...

While Homer describes Aphrodite as the daughter of the deities Zeus and Dione, Hesiod tells of her marine birth from the severed genitals of the primordial god Ouranos. The oil jar at right elegantly ...

Seven & I Holdings, the Japanese operator of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, appointed its first foreign CEO and handed him the task of overhauling its business to fend off a $47 billion ...