Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world's top killer by 2010, part of a trend that should more than double global cancer cases and deaths by 2030, international health experts reported Tuesday.

For a century and more, companies have ventured abroad only after establishing themselves at home," writes HBS professor Daniel J. Isenberg in this month's issue of Harvard Business Review. "Standing conventional theory on its head, start-ups now do business in

If you want to get a read on the telecom policy agenda in store for the media industry, it has been spelled out in a new 300,000-word policy briefing, appropriately titled: Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th

The dismal economy finally caught up to the cable industry last week, with several companies trimming employee rolls, and more expected to follow. But last week, the media sector could hold out no longer, with a flood of layoff announcements

SAN FRANCISCO - Even as technology threatens the survival of video rental stores, serial entrepreneur Stuart Skorman thinks there's still a place for the movie-matchmaking advice of veteran video store clerks.To prove his point, Skorman hired more than 20 former

Advanced Television Systems Committee President Mark Richer and his ATSC membership are more interested in digital television's future, when local stations will be able to do more than simply deliver high-definition and standard-def multicast linear programming to consumers. Although he

Legislators expressed guarded optimism Friday that the state might help save the Bristol Press and the New Britain Herald newspapers from potential closure next month. Ten lawmakers gathered at the Capitol with the state's top economic development administrator to see

SEATTLE - Microsoft says it's bringing in a former Yahoo search executive to lead its online push.He'll be responsible for search and online advertising, where Microsoft lags far behind the leader, Google Inc.

NBC Universal will merge its television studio and network in a bid to cut costs as advertising revenues plummet in a weak economy, the company's executives said on Monday.Viewership is down 12% over this point last season, and NBC has

Despite the darkening economic forecast--and the official word last week that the United States is indeed in a recession--U.S. consumers have no plans to reduce spending on Internet, wireless, cable and satellite services. That's according to a new study from

CHICAGO -- New York Times Co. plans to borrow as much as $225 million against its Manhattan headquarters building in the latest signal that the credit crisis and diminishing advertising revenues are casting an ominous shadow over the newspaper industry.The

At his first town-hall-style meeting with employees in Chicago after taking Tribune Co. private, increasing the company's debt burden to $13 billion, Sam Zell declared, "We are in crisis."Then Monday, when Zell declared that a "perfect storm" had left the

Yahoo Inc. directors steering the search for a new chief executive are moving closer to a recommendation and have authorized checking references on a few key candidates, say people familiar with the matter, although a decision is likely to be

NEW YORK - New York Times says it is in talks with lenders about debt payments coming due in the next two years, as the newspaper publisher struggles to weather continued declines in advertising sales.The New York-based company says it

Dec. 9--The next chief executive of Playboy Enterprises Inc. won't have the name Hefner but will face the same challenge: how to make a profit in a marketplace saturated with sex. Christie Hefner, one of Chicago's highest-profile female chief executives,

SAN FRANCISCO - MySpace.com is teaming up with Internet search leader Google Inc. in a campaign to extend MySpace's reach and counter the expansion of their common rival Facebook Inc.The alliance, unveiled late Monday in Paris, builds upon MySpace's seven-month-old

Even with a rough season, two Cougars were honored for their performance by the conference. Senior middle blocker Rachel Dyer and junior right side hitter Kayla Walker both received All-MWC accolades.

Adults are quick to tell college students to 'enjoy life while you can,' but for an increasing number of college students, college life is filled with anxiety and stress.

When the sun shortens its visits because of daylight saving time and is shrouded in cloud cover for extended periods of time during the winter months, feeling down is somewhat normal. It's called Seasonal Affective Disorder

SPOKANE, Wash. - A Spokane woman who hid a sedated monkey under her blouse on a flight from Thailand to Los Angeles - pretending she was pregnant - has been convicted of smuggling charges.