Enterprise

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Sold Chevies Without Standard Air Bags To Save Millions

McClatchy | RICK MONTGOMERY and DAN MARGOLIES | Posted 09.16.2009 | Business


Enterprise Rent-A-Car, the nation's largest private buyer of new cars and seller of used ones, chose to "delete" a standard safety feature from thousa...

Star Trek Firsts... 43 Years On

William Bradley | Posted 07.24.2009 | Entertainment


William Bradley

Some 43 years after it began, and seven years after the movie franchise seemed completely played out, Star Trek is making firsts again. And so far, it's the most popular movie of the year in America.

A Mindless Meld of "Star Trek" and the New Unemployment Rate

Dave Astor | Posted 06.11.2009 | Comedy


Dave Astor

The U.S. Labor Department announced Friday that 539,000 people lost their jobs last month -- a dreadful total, but not as high as the 600,000-plus axed in March. Here are three reasons why the unemployment increase got slightly less awful...

How Social Media Today and its Online Communities Reinforce Blogging

Ari Herzog | Posted 05.15.2009 | Business


Ari Herzog

Disclosure: In late February, I was recruited by Robin Carey and Jerry Bowles, co-founders of Social Media Today and joined their team as a community ...

City Sued For Charging Its Taxes On Suburban Car Rentals

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 03.27.2009 | Chicago


How would you like to rent a car in Waukegan or St. Charles, only to be slapped with the 8 percent "transaction tax" that applies to Chicago car renta...

Davos: A Better Question Than 'How Long Will the Crisis Last?'

Jim Wallis | Posted 02.28.2009 | Business


Jim Wallis

The question we should be asking is how this global economic crisis will change us -- all of us, in the way we think, decide things, and even do business.