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Kilar to quit as CEO of Hulu by March
Jason Kilar will step down by the end of March as the chief executive of Hulu, the online video service owned by the parents of ABC, NBC and Fox.
Lauda leaves Air Berlin board to concentrate on F1
Germany's second-biggest airline, Air Berlin PLC, says Niki Lauda has left the company's board to devote more time to his new role with the Mercedes ...
Safeway CEO Burd to retire in May
Safeway's CEO Steve Burd will retire in May after more than 20 years with the grocer. The chain, which has stores across the country, says it will ...
Netflix CEO gets pay bump after 2012 cut
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings' pay will double to $4 million next year, after he took a pay cut due to management missteps this year. Hastings' annual ...
Fearful of ban, frenzied buyers swarm gun stores
The phones at Red's Trading Post wouldn't stop ringing. Would-be customers from as far away as New York wanted to know if the Twin Falls, Idaho gun ...
Apple CEO gets modest 2012 pay after big 2011
Apple CEO Tim Cook got $4.2 million in pay for the latest fiscal year, a modest sum compared with last year, when the company's board set him up with ...
Chevron's CEO: Affordable energy is crucial
Chevron CEO John Watson notices something important as he visits his company's operations around the globe: Governments everywhere find high energy ...
Deutsche Telekom boss Obermann resigns to end 2013
Deutsche Telekom says chief executive Rene Obermann will step down at the end of 2013 after seven years at the head of the company. The Bonn, ...
Sirius XM Radio promotes Meyer to interim CEO
Satellite radio company Sirius XM Radio named one of its executives, James Meyer, as its interim CEO while it looks for a replacement for Mel Karmazin
Garmin names Pemble as its CEO
Garmin President and Chief Operating Officer Clifton Pemble will become CEO at the start of the new year as part of the company's succession plan.
Criminal probe adds to Texas cancer agency woes
Texas put up $3 billion in taxpayer money and promised cancer breakthroughs. But a criminal investigation, widespread rebuke from scientists and the ...
Yahoo adds 1 director as 2 board members exit
Yahoo is adding a new director and parting ways with two other board members in the latest shake-up of the Internet company's hierarchy.
DA investigating Texas' troubled $3B cancer agency
Turmoil surrounding an unprecedented $3 billion cancer-fighting effort in Texas worsened Tuesday when its executive director offered his resignation ...
Apple's softer side emerges under CEO Cook
"Those jobs aren't coming back." That's what Steve Jobs reportedly told President Obama when asked at a dinner in early 2011 whether Apple would ...
Netflix gets SEC notice over CEO's Facebook post
Netflix Inc. is facing scrutiny from government regulators for a Facebook post by its CEO in July that may have boosted the online video company's ...
Expert panel: NASA seems lost in space, needs goal
NASA, the agency that epitomized the "Right Stuff," seems lost in space and doesn't have a clear sense of where it is going, an independent panel of ...
Canadian Pacific Railway to eliminate 4,500 jobs
Canadian Pacific Railway will eliminate some 4,500 employee and contractor positions by 2016, the new chief executive of Canada's second largest ...
Exxon Mobil to give CEO a raise to $2.7 million
Exxon Mobil Corp. is raising CEO Rex W. Tillerson's salary 6 percent to $2.72 million on Jan. 1. The oil giant said Tuesday in a regulatory filing ...
Tea party group chief quits, cites internal split
Eased out with an $8 million payout provided by an influential Republican fundraiser, former GOP House Majority Leader Dick Armey says he has left the ...
News Corp.'s new media co. to be named Fox Group
News Corp. said Monday that its new publishing company will keep the News Corp. name, while its separate media and entertainment company will be ...
News Corp Int'l news chief to step down
Tom Mockridge, the chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers who was parachuted in to steady an organization swamped in scandal, is ...
Crystal Sugar workers reject contract 4th time
Their ranks thinned by a 16-month lockout, American Crystal Sugar Co. workers on Saturday rejected a contract for the fourth time. Contract opponents ...
The factory fire: Global commerce, local tragedy
In the charred bones of the Tazreen Fashions Ltd. factory, the labels and logos — sewn and printed in scarlet and royal blue — beckon from the ashes.
J&J board picks CEO to replace retiring chairman
Johnson & Johnson Chairman Bill Weldon will step down from that post in late December and the world's biggest maker of health products has picked new ...
Duke Energy CEO to leave in NC merger settlement
Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers will step down as head of the largest U.S. electric utility by the end of 2013 as part of a settlement with the North ...