As Boeing hands over its 223rd and final C-17 to the Air Force, it'll now be up to foreign customers to keep the program alive. It's the last airplane manufacturing plant in Southern California.

That's how folks at DreamHost, an L.A.-based Web-hosting provider, describe their corporate culture. Not only do they want everybody to have a voice, but they want those voices to be heard.

Lots of cross-currents at play in the new Dataquick report as the summer home-buying season draws to an end.

For all the talk about bikes and trains, L.A. is still land of the automobile - and it's likely to remain that way for a while.

The airline business is just damn hard. Along comes a carrier that makes flying tolerable (even in coach), develops a strong customer following, and still it struggles to make money.

The billionaire investor has a long history in the grocery business, going back to his days at Stater Brothers, so maybe he can do what British supermarket giant Tesco couldn't: Turn the El Segundo-based chain into a money-maker.

Surprising news - Shell was most recently chairman of NBCUniversal International, but he's not well-known among the studio crowd. Ron Meyer will be bumped up to vice-chairman of NBCUniversal.

Just 9.8 percent of all mortgages in the L.A. area had negative equity as of the second quarter, down sharply from 29.8 percent during the second quarter of 2009 - arguably the worst stretch of the economic crisis.