Gate agents can't always provide you with up-to-date information about when a plane will actually pull in - and for anyone wanting to make a connecting flight, that can be a big deal. What's a passenger to do?

You'd think they could allow a little flexibility for their workers, who I'm guessing are young and like the freedom to go casual.

The financial markets have changed a lot since 1983, but you'd be hard pressed to come up with a better movie about money and greed (not to mention commodities trading) than the 1983 comedy starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy.

Properties that were once valued at $1 billion or more are now going for relative chump change. Could the Times fetch more than $100 million?

Once you get over the shock that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is buying the Washington Post for $250 million, ending the Graham family's stewardship of one of America's leading newspapers, what stands out is having this master of online marketing and retailing taking a shot at the sad-sack world of old media.