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Same story - different company, different day. This time it’s Amazon on the hot seat. The company reported third quarter earnings of $118 million, or 27 cents per share, on $4.26 billion in revenue.

(statement) Profits were up 48 percent from the same quarter a year ago and revenue rose 31 percent.

Ray Marshall taught at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and still researches there. But he still remembers very well the four years he spent in the hot seat as...

It's not just the average Joe suffering as the U.S. economy heads south. Some folks at the top - especially these 10 - are feeling the pain, too.

Yahoo's Yang: On the hot seat

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And you thought a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo was over and done with?

Not so fast.

Microsoft has signaled that it is willing to sweeten its previous offer for a partial buyout of Yahoo's ...

In the aftermath of Yahoo aligning with Google rather than Microsoft, Jerry Yang is taking a beating. But it's Yahoo's board of directors that should be called to account.

Silicon Valley execs once again forced to justify their business practices in China and other Internet-censoring countries, with Cisco taking the hot seat over new allegations of cozier-than-confessed ties with the Chinese police.

PALO ALTO, CALIF.--Comcast may come to regret missing a regulatory hearing on Net neutrality.

Robb Topolski, the software engineer who ignited controversy around Comcast's disruption of BitTorrent peer-to-peer traffic, was in the spotlight here Thursday at an en banc hearing of Federal Communication Commission regulators.

The FCC held ...

Austin's fire chief is in the hot seat. City of Austin officials have put the chief on notice to improve his job performance -- or else.