Why pay women more when you can simply give them a more important sounding job title?

This year's Money League report from Deloitte on the world's 20 biggest soccer teams (see full report below) shows aggregate revenue of 4.4 billion Euro ($6.3 billion)  during the 2010-11 season, 3% more than the previous year. The five teams with the most revenue were Real Madrid ($695 million), FC Barcelona ($653 million), Manchester United ($532 million), Bayern Munich ($466 million) and Arsenal ($364 million).

As an Amazon Prime subscriber, Michael Manzo, CMO of Openet, loves the new licensing agreement Amazon and Viacom have signed. The value is worth it just for the reduced shipping costs, he says. Briefly, Amazon and Viacom have inked a licensing agreement that will make thousands of new titles, including The Hills, Jersey Shore, The Hard Times of RJ Berger, The Real World, Dora the Explorer, SpongeBob SquarePants, Yo Gabba Gabba and Hot in Cleveland available to Prime customers.

Ahead of an imminent announcement from the Justice Department on a sweeping settlement with five big U.S. banks, California Attorney General Attorney Kamala Harris revealed that her state would receive up to $18 billion.

It's a symptom of a mixed economic environment that if a piece of information indicates a trend in one direction, it won't be long before something comes along to contradict it.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is America's biggest seed-stage investor. And one of NSF's portfolio managers has keen insights on what separates the start-up winners from the pack.

To regain slipping market share, PepsiCo will cut 8,700 jobs worldwide and spend between $500 and $600 million more on advertising and marketing, the company announced Thursday.