WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama lunched with top business executives at the White House on Thursday to discuss the economy and job creation, officials said. The lunch was the fifth of its kind that president has hosted. The list of invitees included: * Tom Wilson, The Allstate Corporation * Ken Chenault, American Express * John Chambers, Cisco Systems * Frederick Smith, FedEx * Ken Powell ...

Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Jeffrey Bewkes is getting a pay raise potentially worth an extra $3.25 million a year. The company's compensation committee last week approved a $250,000 increase in salary to $2 million a year, retroactive to Jan. 1. It also bumped ...

MANY HAPPIER RETURNS

2009? No valentine-- The landscape looks like District 9, Though corporate corpses line the lawns Instead of otherworldly prawns. Among the living, those once strong Now huff and puff and wheeze along, Unless, of course, they got a gift When stimulus gave them a lift. So many deemed too big to fail And so few deemed too ...