Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, Forbes magazine, is published bi-weekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published bi-weekly, and BusinessWeek.

Company history
Apart from Forbes and its lifestyle supplement, ForbesLife, the other titles published include Forbes Asia and eight local language editions. The company also publishes American Heritage, American Heritage of Invention & Technology and American Legacy. Steve Forbes and his magazine's writers offer investment advice on the weekly Fox TV show Forbes on Fox and on Forbes On Radio. Other company groups include Forbes Conference Group, Forbes Investment Advisory Group and Forbes Custom Media.

Other publications
David Churbuck founded Forbes' Web site, Forbes.com, in 1996. The site drew attention when it uncovered Stephen Glass' journalistic fraud in The New Republic in 1998, a scoop that gave credibility to internet journalism.
Forbes.com bills itself as "Home Page For The World's Business Leaders" and is the most widely visited business web site. It features in-depth coverage of current business and financial events and of high-end lifestyle. The current president and chief executive officer is James J. Spanfeller; the current editor is Paul Maidment; the current managing editor is Daniel Bigman. Forbes.com also publishes subscription investment newsletters, a luxury-vehicles site, ForbesAutos, a luxury travel site, ForbesTraveler, edited by G. Barry Golson, the former executive editor of Playboy and TV Guide and former editor-in-chief of Yahoo! Internet Life, and an online guide to web sites, Best Of The Web.

Lists

200 Best Small Companies
400 Best Big Companies
Forbes 500
Forbes Global 2000, a list of largest companies in the world taking into account market capitalization, revenue, income and assets (this is different from the Fortune Global 500 which is based only on revenues).
Largest Private Companies Companies
In popular culture Forbes is perhaps best-known for its many periodic lists of net worth. As it often takes considerable detective work to determine the actual wealth of an individual, Forbes' figures are widely cited as nearly-definitive.

Executive Pay
Forbes 400, a list of the richest people in the United States
Midas List, an annual list of the top dealmakers in technology and life sciences
World's Richest People, a list of the richest people in the world
China Rich List, a list of the richest people in mainland China
India Rich List, list of the richest people in India
Forbes Fictional 15, a self-parodying list of the richest movie, TV and literary characters
100 Most Powerful Women in the World (external: [1])
The Celebrity 100, an annual list of famous and financially influential celebrities (i.e., entertainers, musicians, producers, directors, and athletes) [2]
The China Celebrity 100
Top-Earning Dead Celebrities [3] People

Best Cities For Singles
Best Places For Business
Most Expensive Zip Codes
Most Expensive Rental Markets In The U.S. Fidel Castro conflict

Lists of billionaires
Kenneth L. Fisher has written the "Portfolio Strategy" column in Forbes since 1984, It is the longest running current financial column in the magazine. Fisher became Forbes' fourth-longest-running financial columnist of all time with the appearance of his column in the issue of August 13, 2007.