Billionaire Warren E. Buffett has never attended. Neither has Timothy D. Cook, chief executive of Apple, the world's largest company by market value. (His predecessor, Steve Jobs, never went, either.) The founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, stopped going a couple of years ago, as did Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chairman. Both companies do send other execut...

Klaus Schwab said in an interview with the Associated Press that there will be crossover between the forum's 2,500 participants and the officials from the U.S., Russia and close to 40 other countries that are attending the start of the Syria peace conference several hours away in Montreux, Switzerland.

With the recent proliferation of cyber-attacks, corporate executives need to devote increasing attention to protecting information assets and on-line operations, according to the report released today by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in collaboration with global consultancy McKinsey & Company.