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 ...

The chief executives of Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have declined to back Google's threat to pull out of China over censorship and cyberattacks, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer described Google's row with China as "the Google problem," the FT said, while Mark Hurd, CEO of computer maker HP, called China "an amazing market ...

By Dina Bass [Bloomberg] -- Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer introduced a touch-screen tablet computer from Hewlett-Packard Co. and said U.S. sales of PCs running Windows jumped 50 percent over the holidays. The computer will go on sale this year and was one of several machines that Ballmer showed off last night at the Consumer Electronics Show ...