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Paul Otellini talks about why he is spending big on new U.S. manufacturing capacity now.

Former eBay Inc Chief Executive Meg Whitman, one of the highest profile Republican technology executives in Silicon Valley, has formed a committee to explore running for governor of California in 2010, the first official step of a campaign.

Wall Street bankers, with their $18 billion in bonuses, private jets and gaudy conferences, are causing headaches for the GOP.

President Obama has proposed capping compensation for executives at banks that take taxpayer bailout money at $500,000. Republicans hate the idea, which puts them uncomfortably on the side of people currently about as popular as child-porn producers and subprime mortgage brokers.

President Obama on Wednesday announced a salary cap of $500,000 for top executives at companies that receive large amounts of bailout money.

President Barack Obama issued a withering critique Thursday of Wall Street corporate behavior, calling it "the height of irresponsibility" for employees to be paid more than $18 billion in bonuses last year while their crumbling financial sector received a bailout from taxpayers.

At banks that are receiving federal bailout money nearly nine out of every 10 of the most senior executives from 2006 are still on the job, according to an Associated Press analysis of  documents.

Former Merrill Lynch Chief Executive John Thain said Monday he plans to reimburse Bank of America for a $1.2 million renovation of his office a year ago.

The chip maker typically has elevated its CEO to chairman, not a board director.

John A. Thain, the former chief executive of Merrill Lynch, resigned after Bank of America suffered unexpected losses stemming from its acquisition of the giant brokerage.

There is an old Chinese Proverb that says: “Behind an able man there are always other able men.” Steve Jobs is a very able man that had the insight, creativity, and perseverance to turn an idea into a multimillion dollar business that ...