Microsoft CEO backs Web spending,

REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) – Chief Executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday defended Microsoft Corp's need to make heavy investments in its Internet businesses but said the company was "done," for now, with pursuing

Jobs, oil, earnings to call market tune

U.S. stock investors will sift through reams of economic reports, including July payrolls and second-quarter gross domestic product, as they search for catalysts this week that could trigger a recovery on Wall