President Barack Obama on Monday tapped Xerox Chief Executive Ursula Burns to help lead an education initiative aimed at helping students excel at science, technology, engineering and math.

While the sales numbers don’t do a good job of reflecting it, 2009 has actually been a pretty good year for video game releases. As developers become more familiar with the current game systems, the level of quality in titles has increased dramatically.

What follows is a roundup of corporate earnings reports for Thursday, Nov. 5.

Media conglomerate Time Warner Inc. reported a 38 percent drop in third-quarter profit, hurt by declines at its AOL and publishing segments.

Time Warner posted lower quarterly profit, but results surpassed expectations, and the media powerhouse raised its full-year earnings forecast in a sign that advertising sales are showing life.

What follows is a roundup of corporate earnings reports for Wednesday, Nov. 4.

The likely corporate marriage of Comcast and NBC Universal is not likely to do any better than the merger of AOL and Time Warner, says the New York Times.

Time WarnerInc's magazine division Time Inc plans another round of job cuts as advertising declines erode revenue, a source familiar with the unit said on Thursday.

The News Corporation needs television viewers to find the Fox Business Network, and it thinks the cowboy-hat-wearing radio host Don Imus could help.

Why does the federal government remain in the business of telling cable systems what networks to carry?