In our business news today we have a career check too but first the price of flying goes up. Several major airlines have reinstated a ten-dollar fare increase on many domestic round-trips one day after they dropped it. NPR's Jack Speer Reports: Next...
The playwright George Bernard Shaw once quipped England and America are 2 nations divided by a common language. If he were writing today, he might add divided by a common technology, E-mail. Here is Day to Day's Eric Weiner with observations on the g...
NBC tonight launches a new series-The Office. It's the American version of a British comedy series. The original has a small but dedicated group of fans in the United States. Remaking British series for American audiences is not new, but as NPR's Kim...
From NPR news, this is all things considered. I'm Michele Norris.And I'm Robert Siegel. The White House has come under fire for federal agencies issuing what are called video news releases that promoted administration policies. Video news releases ar...
Time now for business news. A key assumption behind the idea of creating private social security accounts is that people will make better choices with their money. It's generally assumed that consumers benefit when they have more options. Steve V. re...
Antony of the band Antony and the Johnsons cut his teeth in New York's after hours cabarets and backing up rocker Lou Reed.His current group has a new album called I Am a Bird Now.Music critic Jerry Dannemiller has a review. OK,right up front.The fir...
Media giant Time Warner will pay a three-hundred-million-dollar penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The civil penalty is to settle charges the company overstated revenues earned by its online division AOL. NPR's Jack Spear reports. The...
Low-cost airlines have changed the travel business. Carriers like Southwest and Jetblue serve fewer cities than traditional airlines and offer fewer perks to passengers. They force the bigger carriers like United and Delta to change their business pr...
The US economy continues to recover from the tech bubble burst of 2000. But there're certainly many people still left behind. Long-term unemployment which is defined as being out of work for 27 weeks is at record levels. And within that group,the per...
On Mondays, our business report focuses on technology. Google has transformed itself from the little search engine that could into a major information hub, email service, software developer and more. It's already the place where most people go to fin...