This week’s top business news – April 27- May 1, 2015

With the collapse of the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger, news this week focused on what might be next for the two cable giants. It was also a big week for economic with new data points released Wednesday. Finally, earnings results continued to pour in for companies, including Thursday’s disappointing results for DreamWorks Animation.

What follows are what Talking Biz News views to be the top 10 stories of the week:

Monday

• Exclusive: Time Warner Cable open to merger talks with Charter – sources, by Liana Baker of Reuters
• Facebook adds video calling to Messenger to take on Skype and Google Hangouts, by Kia Kokalitcheva of Fortune

Tuesday

• SEC is set to propose new rules on executive compensation, by Andrew Ackerman and Joann S. Lublin of The Wall Street Journal
• Education Department directs former Corinthian students toward other troubled schools, by Molly Hensley-Clancy of BuzzFeed

Wednesday

• Gross says June rate increase is off as BlackRock sees September, by Wes Goodman of Bloomberg
• Marissa Mayer got a nice pay bump to $42 million last year, by Alexei Oreskovic of Business Insider

Thursday

• Is organic food safer and healthier? The guy in charge of U.S. organics won’t say., by Peter Whoriskey of The Washington Post
• A worse-than-expected $55 million first-quarter loss for DreamWorks Animation, by Brooks Barnes of The New York Times

Friday

• Floyd Mayweather will make more in one night than these companies do all year, by Eric Chemi of CNBC
• The $350 Apple Watch reportedly costs only $84 to manufacture, by Adam Epstein of Quartz