BRIEFCASE.Byline: -- Staff and Wire Services Blockbuster gives new rental option Blockbuster Inc. Wednesday offered online DVD rental Online DVD rentals allow a person to rent DVDs by mail. Generally, all interaction between the renter and the rental company takes place through the company's website. How it works Most companies operate on the following model: The new service, called Total Access, is an attempt to join Blockbuster's retail and online operations in a marriage the Dallas-based company hopes will benefit both. Store sales have been declining at Blockbuster as consumers have defected to other movie-delivery systems, including cable television, Netflix and downloadable movies. Blockbuster, which reports third-quarter financial results today, says it had 1.5 million online subscribers at the end of September and expects to reach 2 million by year-end. Last year, the company had said it would reach 2 million subscribers by March. Online subscribers order their movies over the Internet and typically receive and return them by mail. Truck sales rise with cheaper gas DETROIT -- Lower gas prices boosted truck sales in October, helping two of the domestic Big Three and Toyota Motor Corp. post sales gains compared with a dismal October last year. General Motors Corp. led all automakers with a 17.3 percent increase, fueled by a 33.2 percent rise in truck and sport utility vehicle sales. But GM car sales dropped 1.9 percent. On a percentage basis, GM outperformed Toyota Motor Corp., which reported a 9.2 percent sales increase. Ford Motor Co. also posted a big sales gain, but DaimlerChrysler AG posted weaker U.S. sales than in October 2005.* Southwest cuts Dallas ticket price DALLAS -- Southwest Airlines Co. escalated a fare war against American Airlines on Wednesday, announcing it would sell one-way tickets to and from Dallas for as low as $39. Southwest Chief Executive Gary C. Kelly Gary C. Kelly is the chief executive officer and vice chairman of Southwest Airlines. He first joined the company in 1986 as Controller. In 1989, Gary was promoted to Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance. In 1991, he was promoted to Executive Vice President. said Southwest is treating its longtime home at Dallas Love Field This article is about the airport. For the neighborhood, see Love Field, Dallas, Texas (Neighborhood). Dallas Love Field (IATA: DAL, ICAO: KDAL, FAA LID: DAL as if it were just launching service there. Kelly and other Southwest officials told reporters that the airline is adding flights in Phoenix and Orange County and is considering expansion elsewhere, including Dallas and Philadelphia. Southwest has enough planes on order from Boeing Co. to handle such growth, Kelly said, although it recently bought two used Boeing 737s and is looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. more. NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Time Warner Inc. reported sharply higher earnings Wednesday thanks to a cable deal with Adelphia and an emerging turnaround at its AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. unit, but investors fretted over slower new phone customer growth at the nation's second-largest cable company. The leading media conglomerate, which owns the Time Inc. magazine publisher, Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) ., CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. and HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy , earned $2.3 billion, or 57 cents a share, in the third quarter, versus $853 million, or 18 cents a share, a year ago. Revenues rose 7 percent to $10.9 billion, shy of the $11.1 billion estimate of analysts polled by Thomson Financial. |
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