St. Pete airport traffic soars Passenger traffic at St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport rose 23 percent in November to 49,653 travelers, all of them on domestic flights. ...more

January 15, 2010

Wheels of Success car giveaway is on Wheels of Success, a Tampa-based charity, is helping to distribute 13 reconditioned cars to needy people this month with help from AutoWay dealerships. The 13 Days of Christmas Car Give-Away began Tuesday and will run through Dec. 22. Recipients all have been chosen. ...more

December 11, 2009

Federal Reserve proposes new rules for gift cards The Federal Reserve on Monday proposed new rules to protect consumers from unexpected costs or restrictions on gift cards. ...more

November 17, 2009

Warner Bros. is reaching into its film vaults so it can sell old movies on made-to-order DVDs. ...more

March 23, 2009

President-elect Obama assembled his economic team Friday and told the nation that strong action is needed to confront "the greatest economic challenge of our lifetime." ...more

November 8, 2008

LOS ANGELES (AP) - When Paul Hodges lost his job as a newspaper librarian this summer, he cut back on junk food, canceled his Netflix subscription, went back to his old DVDs and tried to stop buying new ones. ...more

November 2, 2008

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said his media conglomerate is "very unlikely" to be a part of any deal for Yahoo Inc., scuttling talk that Microsoft Corp. was making headway in enlisting the media mogul as part of a deal to break up the Internet search company. ...more

July 12, 2008

Unable to strike a deal on its own, Microsoft Corp. reportedly is hoping to snap up Yahoo's online search operations with the help of News Corp. and Time Warner Inc. ...more

July 3, 2008

The "Star Wars" universe, already substantially rendered by computer-generated imagery, is giving in all the way to animation. ...more

February 17, 2008

Yahoo Inc.'s rejection of Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid left investors guessing the next move in a tense mating dance that may hatch a more imposing challenger to Google Inc. or disintegrate into a bruising brawl. ...more

February 12, 2008