She had always been the one her family turned to when they needed help, and she didn’t hesitate to give it. She helped pay for weddings and rent. She made room for her nephew when her brother died of AIDS. And even now in her 50s, she took in a baby that wasn’t her own.

Mitt Romney’s tax returns prompt this question. According to those documents, which he released recently, Romney gives at least 10 percent of his earnings of about $20 million a year to the Mormon Church.

Executives of the embattled Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation held conference calls with affiliates Saturday to discuss a new strategy for working with supporters, a first step in rebuilding trust after last week’s public relations fiasco surrounding Komen’s off-then-on-again decision to fund Planned Parenthood.

And given that today is the Super Bowl pitting the New York Giants against the New England Patriots, did Pats quarterback Tom Brady or Giants quarterback Eli Manning score higher?

Watching this year’s batch of Super Bowl ads, it’s hard not to be struck by the fundamental difference between the “old” and “new” ways of marketing to consumers.

If you think about it, the Super Bowl experience is unique in that tens of millions of people around the nation watched exactly the same ads, in exactly the same sequence, at exactly the same time, as part of a collectively shared experience. How often does that happen in our little Filter Bubble on the Internet?

Super Bowl ads are a longtime tradition, but this one from Best Buy caught our eye, discovered . The ad features innovators who have been changing the mobile technology landscape — a major tool in conquering “Big Data.”

In a stunning repeat of 2008’s come-from-behind win in the Super Bowl, New York Giants Quarterback Eli Manning again led a scoring drive with just minutes left in the game to vault his team into the lead. This time, the New England Patriots may not have come into the game undefeated, though they were still the favored team to win. But as Giants safety Kenny Phillips told The New York Times, he and his teammates weren’t concerned. “When Eli got the ball back at the end of the game, we all just knew.”

It’s an enviable list, really.

They’re among the many who’ve joined Sellers at the Most Powerful Women summit. This year, from a slightly raised stage, she looks out once more across table upon table of some of the world’s most prominent female executives, artists and philanthropists. It’s the opening dinner of Fortune magazine’s annual summit on a surprisingly chilly October evening on the Southern California coastline. The 400-plus guests sit under a big, white tent on a cliff perched over the gray, choppy Pacific. Inside, the Ritz-Carlton has pulled off something that looks a lot like prom: purple sequined tablecloths and settings of pink roses illuminated by purple and pink floodlights.

It is Cyber Friday and — ho-ho-ho — Santa is making his rounds.

You may know all about Cyber Monday, which comes right after Thanksgiving weekend, when online hawkers try to sell a lot of stuff by offering free shipping. Cyber Friday comes four days later. That’s when a billion and one packages begin getting delivered.

For the 35th year, the United States is mounting its annual campaign to gather space rocks from the wind-hammered icefields of Antarctica.