This week's column by Muhammed El-Hasan looks at the Wii promotion at Sports Authority.
This week's column by Muhammed El-Hasan looks at the Wii promotion at Sports Authority.
This may be the most politicized defense contract in recent history.
Boeing tanker ally eyes $5 mln per plane Airbus dutyWASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - A Boeing Co (BA.N) ally in Congress urged the Pentagon on Wednesday to add as much as $5 million per plane to a rival trans-Atlantic team's bid to supply new U.S. mid-air refueling aircraft.
Rep. Norm Dicks, a member of the House of Representatives Defense Appropriations subcommittee, floated the figure as part of a renewed push by Boeing's political backers, aimed at factoring a September interim global trade ruling into the tanker contract battle.
Read more on the Air Force Tanker Contract.
This case, which seemed so explosive just a few months ago, pales in comparison to Toyota's problems with the floor mats and gas pedals.
Toyota Former Inhouse Lawyer Must Arbitrate Claims(Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp. won a ruling forcing a former inhouse lawyer to arbitrate racketeering and other claims he brought in a lawsuit accusing the carmaker of hiding information in litigation over rollover crashes.
U.S. District Judge George H. King in Los Angeles, in an order today, granted Toyota's request to compel Dimitrios Biller to arbitrate the dispute as was stipulated in his September 2007 severance agreement. Biller's claims against Toyota will be put on hold pending the completion of arbitration, the judge said.
Read more on Toyota's legal battle.
Four Wheeler Magazine moves to El Segundo from Wilshire Boulevard in LA.
El Segundo is already home to a lot of magazines on such topics as hobbies and vegetarian cooking.
Last month's LCROSS satellite crash into the moon has allowed NASA to find water ice in a dark lunar crater.
LCROSS was built by Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach.
Here's the wire story:
NASA finds water found on the moonWASHINGTON (AFP) - A "significant amount" of frozen water has been found on the moon, the US space agency NASA said Friday, boosting hopes of eventually setting up a permanent lunar base.
Preliminary data from a moon probe "indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater," NASA said.
Read more on NASA's find.
