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Is Mark Hurd really worth $6 billion to Oracle?

If it weren't insulting enough that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison publicly blasted Hewlett-Packard for letting Mark Hurd go, it now turns out that HP's loss is Oracle's gain.
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Back-to-school savings

It's hard to say "no" to opening your wallet for school supplies. And although the average American family is planning to spend $606 on back-to-school supplies and clothes this year, according to the National Retail Federation, there are ways you can be smart about shopping for the start of the school year and cut your costs.
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Obama to propose another business tax cut

In another move aimed at stabilizing the still-shaky economy, President Obama on Wednesday will introduce a new $200 billion tax cut giving businesses across the country an incentive to buy new equipment in the short term, according to a senior administration official.
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Johnson & Johnson CEO Bill Weldon’s painful year

What started last year as a series of small drug recalls at Johnson & Johnson exploded this summer into a full-blown crisis in quality control. But for months there was nary a peep from CEO Bill Weldon.
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Car Czar on GM’s revolving CEO door

As General Motors welcomes its fourth CEO in 18 months, a frequently-asked question is "Why can't somebody be found who can run GM?"
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4 surprise bright spots in the economy

Good economic news has been hard to come by lately, but not all is doom and gloom in America these days. The end of summer ushered in a few signs of progress in some of the unlikeliest corners of the economy. They are no guarantee that the good times are around the corner, but they do provide a helpful reminder that this slow recovery is exactly that: a recovery.
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Startups flock to Twitter headquarters

Sharing ideas and office space in the tech field are as common as sharing APIs, but the collaborative spirit runs especially deep at San Francisco's 795 Folsom Road.
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Stocks poised to slip

U.S. stocks were poised to slip Tuesday, as optimism from the previous week faded and renewed worries about European banks and the global economy weighed on investors.
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What went wrong with Gardasil

There's a liquid drug that women can get injected into a layer of muscle -- three separate times over a six-month period -- that can protect them from a kind of cancer. From a scientific perspective, that's amazing. In terms of public health, it's a breakthrough.
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Orszag: Extend Bush tax cuts for 2 years

Peter Orszag, who recently stepped down as President Obama's budget director, called for a two-year extension of the Bush tax cuts in an article he wrote in the New York Times on Tuesday.
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