It's looking like a busy week in Florida for Republican presidential candidates, and it's also looking like it's going to get busier.

Italy's Mario Monti on Wednesday unveiled his cabinet, which will see the former European Union commissioner hold the key position of interim Economy minister.

From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Oakland, riot police in full gear marched in like soldiers to evict hundreds of protesters from makeshift camps, trampling on tents and books, overturning pots and pans, and arresting protesters who offered passive resistance.

Apple on Tuesday appointed biotech executive Arthur Levinson as the non-executive chairman of the board, taking over the last role held by Steve Jobs before his death in early October. Apple also announced that Bob Iger, president and chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company, will join Apple's board.

A quarter-century into its career as a publicly traded company, Microsoft finds itself a prisoner of its own past success.

Like a lot of first-generation gadgets, you get the sense with Amazon's Kindle Fire that the next model will probably be much cooler -- but still, the e-reader/tablet hybrid is a handy media consumption device, especially for the relatively low price of $199.

Hispanics are now the largest ethnic minority in the United States and during the past decade, U.S. Hispanic purchasing power has rapidly increased. This report takes an in depth look at how today's Hispanic Economy is transitioning into an economic power in the U.S. Click here for the executive summary and table of contents!

The number of Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States is expected to grow 41.8 percent in the next six years to 4.3 million, with total revenues surging 39 percent to more than $539 billion, according to new estimates by HispanTelligence. Spurred by growing entrepreneurial trends and affluence among the nation's largest minority population, the increase is expected to come at a robust rate of 8.5 and 8.7 percent, respectfully, over the next couple years.

The Great Recession made public revenues plunge while the cost of public programs skyrocketed, resulting in dire public finances here and in key European countries. During 2010, we observed a resilient and recovering U.S economy that, starting in the first quarter of 2011, faced a political and public sector shock on both sides of the Atlantic.

HispanTelligence, the research arm of HispanicBusiness Inc., selected the magazine's 100 Influentials based on the following criteria

This year's crop of The Hispanic Business 100 Influentials fits in nicely with the launch last month of HispanicBusiness magazine's new Diversity Partnership section.

By now we are getting used to it. One day we slide toward chaos. The sensation lasts for days. Then the sun rises, the crisis resolves. Back and forth, the economy and the politics of the economy slide like veritable tectonic plates. The movement affects massive markets, national and global.