At 66, Michael J. Mancuso has served in top positions at some of the country's biggest contractors over the past four decades. Last week, CSC announced the heavy-hitter will come out of retirement to join the Falls Church information technology contractor as a vice president and chief financial...

Circuit City fired its best employees and is now in bankruptcy. Are newspapers following the same path?

If Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is named the next secretary of state, she and her husband could be positioned to lead a public-private partnership on the global stage unlike any before it, one that experts say would bring with it a host of potential benefits and pitfalls for the new president.

The McLean Hilton became home to a science fair for grown-ups Friday with George Mason University's Mid-Atlantic Innovation Showcase.

Iceland said that it had agreed to cover European depositors at failed banks, breaking an impasse that had held up the dispersal of billions of dollars in international aid.

Reuters - Asian stocks mostly rose and government bonds cut their gains on Monday, on hopes for more government rescues of limping industries and as long-term investors scooped up cheap shares.

Steven J. Wallach?s newest effort in computing design is intended to tackle one of the principle limitations in the world of supercomputing.

In the casino of the housing market, Tom Walters is holding the wrong cards. He's a mortgage broker, so business has been slow, and on his own house, payments have risen to about $6,200 -- too much to handle.

A measure to speed $25 billion in emergency aid to the nation's automakers will include provisions designed to protect taxpayers, congressional Democrats said yesterday, including a ban on bonuses for employees who make more than $200,000 a year and a government oversight board with power to veto...

Reuters - Investors enter the week surrounded by unrelentingly poor global economic news, fading hopes of a significant end-of-year stock market recovery and a growing reliance on governments coming to the rescue.

The day before the election, The New York Post?s coverage of Barack Obama turned positive. Has Rupert Murdoch gone soft on liberals?

Many depositors feel safer now that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has, at least through 2009, raised insurance limits from $100,000 to $250,000 per individual account. Joint accounts are covered at $250,000 per co-owner; retirement accounts, up to $250,000; and trust accounts, up to $250,000...

A boot camp in Maine teaches young innovators how to attract investors.

Reuters - Some U.S. consumers hit hard by the credit and foreclosure crisis are finding that down-sizing their lender is paying dividends.

Experts say the foreign makers could take control of the industry and its vast supplier network more quickly than is understood.

Rising unemployment and sharp drops in tax revenue are forcing states to face service cuts, hiring freezes, tax increases, or all of these.

Q It's open-enrollment season for my employer's health-insurance plans. What should I look for in a policy?

Intel?s Core i7 microprocessor has received glowing reviews. But it is impossible to predict how the chip will function in thousands of computers running tens of thousands of programs.

Reuters - JP Morgan, the U.S. investment bank, is drawing up plans to axe thousands of jobs across its worldwide operations, reports The Sunday Telegraph.

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