CA Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mike Gregoire, who joined the East Coast software maker in January after a career in Silicon Valley, wanted to figure out if his top lieutenants were nervous enough.

J.C. Penney Co. ousted Chief Executive Officer Ron Johnson and reinstated his predecessor, Myron E. Ullman III, as the department-store chain works to rebound from declining sales.

U.S. stocks rose as investors speculated first-quarter earnings would help equities rebound from their biggest weekly decline of the year.

Ericsson AB agreed to buy Microsoft Corp.’s Mediaroom business, adding software used by phone companies to deliver television over the Internet.

When Mobil Corp. quit midtown Manhattan for 130 green acres in Fairfax County, Virginia, its new neighbors included country stores, dairy farms and a highway that ringed the nation’s capital. Mobil brought hope that the suburb could break free of its Washington ties to build its own world-class economy.

North Korea will probably carry out a small military attack in the region so the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, can brandish his power, the chairman of the U.S. House intelligence panel said today.

Size matters when women look for a mate, a study finds, whether it’s the size of a man’s shoulders versus his hips, his height or anywhere else.

Everyone loves a bargain. And right now, Barnes & Noble has one of the best ones going.

Daniel Boulud once joined fellow chef Nobu Matsuhisa to cook at a benefit in Tel Aviv. Everything was going smoothly until a rabbi deemed Matsuhisa’s knife unkosher and confiscated it.