Food prices are rising but shoppers have settled into a recessionary habit of frugality and are unwilling to pay more for food. How do retailers, stuck between higher prices from their suppliers and a frugal client base, fix their pricing strategy? What other tools are at their disposal in the hunt for profits? Plus, the Navy is providing members of submarine crews with very expensive tablets that do little but let you read pre-loaded books. On a submarine, with little room for a library, not a bad idea maybe.

The EU ruling on Google will be of great interest to privacy advocates in the U.S. Will Google and other search providers be forced to apply a uniform standard across the globe? Also, a look at Cisco’s changing business model as it shifts to the cloud and invests in “The Internet of Things.”

Pinterest and We Heart It are starting to incorporate native ads,  at some very high prices for advertisers. Native ads have gotten some negative pub — but they could be more successful on those two platforms because those social networks already cater to people interested in buying. Plus, retail sales numbers for April will be the next big clue in how the economy is doing, since the early numbers this year were hindered by the endless winter weather.

It’s Infrastructure Week! And the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers, helps host discussions of what’s to be done about the U.S.’s crumbling infrastructure – who is to build it? – as among other things, the highway trust fund slowly slides toward zero. Plus, on May 15th the FCC is due to vote on a plan to regulate the internet. More than 100 major technology companies are calling on the regulator to reconsider a plan that would allow content companies to pay broadband providers for faster Internet speeds to deliver their traffic as long as the deals are  “commercially reasonable.”

China is in conflict with several nations over its claim to a vast part of the South China Sea. The battle with Vietnam is over both territory and potential oil under the sea, started by China moving an oil drilling rig near the contested Paracel Islands. Plus, it’s graduation time! But the Class of 2014 isn’t celebrating the job market. Young college grads face a 8.5 percent unemployment rate (it was 5.5 percent before the recession), and high school grads face high underemployment. Despite the economic recovery, it’ll still take new grads awhile to find good jobs in a promising career.

Homeownership is at its lowest rate since 1995, but values of single-family homes over $1 million have seen an 8 percent bump in the last year. A hedge fund founder just bought a Hamptons mansion for $147 million, which broke the record for highest sale price of a home. Plus, the President’s pick to head the Department of Health & Human Services, Sylvia Burwell, gets her first Senate hearing on Thursday. The Affordable Care Act will come up. But what would healthcare providers, insurance executives and patient advocates want to ask her?

More and more Americans are withdrawing money from their retirement accounts, despite the high tax penalties. Have retirement accounts become the ATM that people’s homes were in the run-up to the housing crisis? Plus, there’s a debate now in the broadcast world about whether to change the way networks measure viewership during commercials. Currently, networks count someone as a viewer if they watch within three days of the broadcast. But, now the technology exists to measure seven days out. The question for networks: Is viewership being under-represented right now when they strike deals with advertisers?

The new National Climate Assessment, released Tuesday, will say the climate is most definitely changing. It comes as President Obama is waging a regulatory campaign against carbon-dioxide emissions despite industry opposition and public lack of interest. Plus, Google has announced that its Shopping Express same-day delivery service (initially offered near San Francisco) will now be extended to parts of Los Angeles and Manhattan. It’s Google’s answer to Amazon Prime. Why are the companies so focused on same-day delivery?

A lot has changed in our tech lives since counter-terrorism agent Jack Bauer left the air in 2014. When “24” returns on Monday, will the show have caught up? Will Bauer torture terrorists by making them watch cat videos on his iPad? Plus, Tyson Foods reports earnings on Monday, and they’re expected to grow. Chicken producers have benefitted from the rising price of beef and pork, and the apparent shift by restaurants to pitch more chicken at customers because of its lower price.