It's not really a surprise that white and Asian men dominate the top pay tiers among Intel's U.S. workforce. That's been true in the tech industry for years. What's unusual is the excruciating level of detail about pay disparity the chipmaker is releasing Tuesday to the public -- information it could have kept secret.

In addition to its annual ...Read more

NEW YORK -- The federal judge overseeing the bankruptcy of Sears Holdings Corp. appointed an examiner in the ongoing fight between the bankrupt estate of Sears and the ESL Investments Inc. unit that bought the company out of bankruptcy, according to a new court filing.

Lawyers for the estate and the ESL subsidiary that bought the retailer, ...Read more

Milt Hess is a retired computer consultant who volunteers as an adult-literacy tutor at the Santa Barbara Public Library. He's been working recently with a senior who wants to improve her writing.

The woman mentioned she'll have to renew her California driver's license next year, so they took a look together at the Department of Motor Vehicles ...Read more

Twitter is nonsense. Don't take it seriously. That, in essence, is what Elon Musk and his team of lawyers argued in the defamation case won by Musk last Friday.

Twitter is "infamous for invective and hyperbole," his attorneys said in legal briefs. Users "play fast and loose with facts," they said. Forums like Twitter "are not a source of facts ...Read more

Amazon is donating hundreds of thousands of needed items such as socks, blankets and canned food to hundreds of U.S. charities that created wish lists on the company's site, and giving five organizations working on homelessness $1 million each.

It said Tuesday the giving program is based on the AmazonSmile Charity Lists that the company ...Read more

For many people, looking for a new job is at the top of their list of New Year's resolutions.

And according to jobs and career information site LinkedIn, if you want to get in on some of the up and coming industries, you might want to brush up on your engineering skills.

On Tuesday, LinkedIn released its list of emerging jobs for 2020. And as ...Read more

LAS VEGAS -- With the cannabis industry reeling from a series of setbacks over the last six months, the marijuana business conference began in Las Vegas on Monday with an investors' meet-up marked by existential distress.

"We are undergoing a recalibration in a very painful way" said Scott Greiper, president of Viridian Capital Advisors. "...Read more

WASHINGTON -- After months of negotiations and a last-minute hitch involving Mexico, the White House and House Democrats have reached a deal that clears the way for passage of a revised North American free-trade pact.

"We got the agreement, we're going to go with it," House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., said ...Read more

Between high rents, student loan debt and meager wage growth, it's hardly surprising that young adults increasingly lean on parents for financial support. A Pew Research survey reports that the majority of us think it would be grand for an adult child to be financially independent by age 22. But Pew's analysis of government data estimates that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- California's Salinas Valley is grappling with a new outbreak of E. coli contamination linked to packaged salads.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that the latest multistate outbreak, which sickened eight people in upper-Midwest states and 16 in Canada, involves a different E. coli strain than the ...Read more

Comcast customers can see Starz for a little longer as the cable giant has decided to keep the premium channel in its TV packages until at least the end of the month.

The Philadelphia-based company had planned to remove Starz from all packages and drop 11 Starz and Encore channels on Tuesday as the cable giant battles the network over how much...Read more