weathering

As you pile the family into the car and head home for Thanksgiving, you may want to give a little thought to how your home state is weathering the economic crisis.

Investors returning to work Monday face what is expected to be a weeklong display of the depth of the downturn - a torrent of bad economic news.

Comcast continues to add broadband Internet subscribers as telecom giants like AT&T and Verizon trail. Comcast’s third quarter earnings Wednesday tell the tale of a company weathering the downturn pretty well–but not well enough to excite Wall Street.

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary-Jo Foley: Microsoft plays up ‘less is more’ as its holiday retail message Deb Perelman: Signs your company might soon go belly-up Christopher Lochhead: Essential strategies for weathering the economic storm Paul Murphy: So what can Sun do?

Christopher Lochhead, the retired chief marketing officer at Scient and Mercury, offers some turnaround strategies (learned the hard way) for weathering the current economic storm.

One of the towns hit hardest by Hurricane Gustav was Montegut, La. Local officials say it could take weeks to bring electricity back to the community, and some worry that residents, tired of weathering hurricanes, will leave for good.

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Time Warner CEO says the company is weathering the "challenging economic environment," and that it's ready to split the management of the unit's ISP and media businesses.

Both Red Hat and Oracle had excellent quarters, but Oracle's was apparently not "excellent" enough for Wall Street's tastes.

Its shares and the market went south on fears that technology spending is in decline. Apparently Wall Street didn't notice that Red Hat actually raised its fiscal year 2009 guidance.

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