Two corporate behemoths try to put some ha-ha into your April Fool's Day... with mixed results
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been appointed by Gordon Brown to inject more style and glamour into British life -- if you believe a report in the UK's Guardian newspaper.
The delightful Richard Branson proves yet again that you don't have to toe the line in order to be a successful businessperson. In launching another intriguing business, this time to make private aircraft charters easier to arrange, he cannot avoid the temptation for endless quips, even right off a long flight from India - a charter of course.
Talk about a long wait for takeoff. After stints at Lufthansa and Delta (where he was president), Fred Reid has spent three years trying to get Virgin America off the ground. Though the Department of Transportation initially withheld approval, citing too much foreign control by Richard Branson's Virgin Group, the low-cost carrier finally got the go-ahead in May after restructuring. Flights between San Francisco and New York - featuring mood lighting, leather seats, and a deluxe entertainment system - begin this month. We caught up with Reid at VA's Burlingame, Calif., headquarters to talk travel.
Yes, Richard Branson has just shown with an experimental Virgin Atlantic flight. The question is how much good it'll do
Representatives of the parents of missing toddler Madeleine McCann are in talks with a production firm about making a documentary following the ongoing search for their daughter, a spokesman said Tuesday.
Australian pop star Natalie Imbruglia and her rocker husband Daniel Johns announced their separation in a joint statement Friday.
A woman wearing a T-shirt with the slogan "Go fund yourself" across her chest offers me a grilled shrimp hors d'oeuvre. Another woman, dressed as a "Georgette" (a female version of George Washington), hands out dollar bills with a blank face on the front. The scene? A launch party in Boston for Richard Branson's new company, Virgin Money USA. The message? Branson's new firm will change the face of money by replacing inflexible loans from big banks with a more personal, nimble approach to lending.
Easy money: Richard Branson helps fund U.S. entrepeneurs
Tony Fernandes, founder and CEO of Asia's first low-budget carrier Air Asia, talks with Andrew Stevens.
Two corporate behemoths try to put some ha-ha into your April Fool's Day... with mixed results
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been appointed by Gordon Brown to inject more style and glamour into British life -- if you believe a report in the UK's Guardian newspaper.
The delightful Richard Branson proves yet again that you don't have to toe the line in order to be a successful businessperson. In launching another intriguing business, this time to make private aircraft charters easier to arrange, he cannot avoid the temptation for endless quips, even right off a long flight from India - a charter of course.
Talk about a long wait for takeoff. After stints at Lufthansa and Delta (where he was president), Fred Reid has spent three years trying to get Virgin America off the ground. Though the Department of Transportation initially withheld approval, citing too much foreign control by Richard Branson's Virgin Group, the low-cost carrier finally got the go-ahead in May after restructuring. Flights between San Francisco and New York - featuring mood lighting, leather seats, and a deluxe entertainment system - begin this month. We caught up with Reid at VA's Burlingame, Calif., headquarters to talk travel.
Yes, Richard Branson has just shown with an experimental Virgin Atlantic flight. The question is how much good it'll do
Representatives of the parents of missing toddler Madeleine McCann are in talks with a production firm about making a documentary following the ongoing search for their daughter, a spokesman said Tuesday.
Australian pop star Natalie Imbruglia and her rocker husband Daniel Johns announced their separation in a joint statement Friday.
A woman wearing a T-shirt with the slogan "Go fund yourself" across her chest offers me a grilled shrimp hors d'oeuvre. Another woman, dressed as a "Georgette" (a female version of George Washington), hands out dollar bills with a blank face on the front. The scene? A launch party in Boston for Richard Branson's new company, Virgin Money USA. The message? Branson's new firm will change the face of money by replacing inflexible loans from big banks with a more personal, nimble approach to lending.
Easy money: Richard Branson helps fund U.S. entrepeneurs
Tony Fernandes, founder and CEO of Asia's first low-budget carrier Air Asia, talks with Andrew Stevens.
As a female voice coos, "Welcome to space," six passengers in skintight spacesuits unbuckle their seatbelts and somersault in zero gravity, occasionally peeking back at Earth through the private spaceship's large portholes.
This month, CNN Business Traveller is all about Open Skies - the most dramatic change in aviation in decades. In March 2008, the Open Skies agreement will give American and European Union carriers the freedom to fly from any city in the U.S. to any EU city and vice versa.
After years of preparation and planning, Virgin America finally took off Wednesday, despite delays caused by a summer storm in New York. But whether all the hype surrounding the new airline is anything more than hot air remains to be seen.
A third person died Friday from an explosion at a rocket test pad operated by a private company in California's southern Mojave Desert, according to the nursing supervisor at Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield.
An explosion at an airport home to Scaled Composites -- the builder of the first private manned rocket to reach space -- killed two people and left four seriously hurt Thursday, a Kern County Fire Department official says.
Stocks were poised for a positive start Monday, but if last week is any indication, investors are in for another session of volatile trading.
Virgin Media said Monday it has received a takeover offer, but the British cable company, whose largest investor is Richard Branson, declined to name the bidder and said it isn't negotiating about a possible buyout.
How about tea with Nelson Mandela? Or perhaps you would like to spend the afternoon chatting with Archbishop Desmond Tutu? Or maybe, you would just like to hang out with Virgin boss Richard Branson on his game farm in South Africa?
Police searching for a 4-year-old British girl who disappeared 11 days ago in southern Portugal sealed off a villa Monday near where she is believed to have been abducted, according to news reports.
Virgin Atlantic has joined the growing band of airlines snapping up the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. At a press announcement on Tuesday the airline's chairman Sir Richard Branson also indicated that Virgin aims to be the first airline to power its aircraft with alternative fuels.
A mere three years after Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne skimmed the edge of space to capture the $10-million Ansari X Prize, more than half a dozen companies are furiously building and testing spacecraft designed to take paying passengers on suborbital journeys and beyond.
This month on Business Traveller we're taking another look at some of the stories and issues you wanted to see again.
In the 1980s and 1990s, U.S. television executives mined stand-up comedy for show concepts. More recently, they've turned to European reality shows (Big Brother, Pop Idol) to fill their schedules. Could comic books be the next source of inspiration?
That 2007 was a great year for the majority of Americans is hard to deny. Every pollster's measure of our well-being - consumer confidence, household spending, how many think the country is "on the...
I'm sailing on a Hobie Cat with Richard Branson along the shore of Necker Island, his private enclave about a mile from Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. The Virgin Islands aren't actually a part of Virgin Group, the conglomerate he founded, but sometimes it's easy to make that mistake.
We asked the brightest minds in business how they do what they do � and how you can cash in on their advice in the year ahead.
Space tourism is being packaged as the ultimate trip -- almost as an extension of a normal flight but with incredible views, the experience of weightlessness and supersonic speeds.
Want to make someone's Christmas really special this year? Consider a trip to outer space.
Business 2.0 Magazine has identified the Best business ideas in the world. This is the first in a series that will appear here throughout the next month. Check back daily for updates.
By taking the bang out of the sonic boom a new generation of supersonic cruisers aim to rekindle the glamour of Concorde but make it a more environmentally friendly, and quieter, 21st-century mode of luxury travel.
Whether we are commuting to work, flying to business meetings or watching as explorers venture out into space, human activity is relentless. In a world that is constantly in motion, what does the future hold?
Part of the deal at the Clinton Global Initiative currently taking place in midtown Manhattan is that when someone agrees to commit money to a project, they get to come up on stage with President Clinton, sign a document, and get a picture.
Posted: August 30, 2006
From his red tie to his brilliantly socked toes, Duncan Quinn is a fanatical sartorialist. The private-equity attorney turned men's wear designer of the moment has dressed everyone from Hugh Grant ...
Posted: June 29, 2006
Everywhere you look these days, tech and business world luminaries - like Richard Branson, Paul Allen, Steve Case, Vinod Khosla, John Doerr, and Bill Gates - are laying down big bets on ethanol, a substitute for gasoline that's already finding its way into pumps.
You still loaded up on tech stocks? You may feel some pain today bucko! (see Dell below.) Hey you should own Thai stocks instead ... that market just hit a 27 month high!
Virgin Atlantic boss Richard Branson lets Business Traveller viewers in on the five things that make his life easier when he is on the road.
We're road testing on this month's Business Traveller, testing all the latest gadgets, gizmos and must-haves to make life on the road more bearable.
Former American Airlines CEO Don Carty has agreed to serve as chairman of Virgin America, the start-up airline backed in part by Virgin CEO Richard Branson.
We managed to get the big picture fabulously right in our Nov. 10, 2003, cover story, "Shootout in Gadget Land," about the free-for-all emerging as the home-electronics and computer industries conv...
Executives bored with criss-crossing the globe will soon have the chance to boldly go where few travelers have gone before: space.
What is on your 2006 wish list when it comes to business travel?
I MUST SAY THAT I'M A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED IN RICHARD Branson. After all this time as one of the world's highest-profile entrepreneurs, he's only now beginning to deal in the world's two most precio...
Thinking about health insurance is about as much fun as a root canal--unless you're Sir Richard Branson. After livening up air travel and mobile phones, the Virgin Group founder and British billion...
The next time you are traveling through Heathrow and you get a panic attack associated with flying, you may want to sign up to a course.
There's a new type of "sexual" in town, and Virgin Atlantic wants to say thank you to the lucky leader of the pack.
It's just after midnight on the French Riviera, and while the rich and famous sip champagne in Cannes at the annual film festival, something unsightly and orange cruises into the harbor and plops d...
[HIT] A pattern for profits. Here's a classic yarn about an old-line business learning to move at Internet speed: After Martha Stewart was photographed leaving prison in a hand-crocheted poncho and...
If television executives flooded the airwaves with more reality programs, would viewers tune in?
THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE is sometimes called the "world's largest casino." But Mark Cuban thinks that's unfair--to Las Vegas! The billionaire provocateur says trading stocks and bonds is actuall...
Forget Donald Trump, Mark Cuban, and Richard Branson--hands down, our favorite reality-TV CEO is fake billionaire N. Paul Todd, who stars in Fox's sly Apprentice spoof My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss. On...
When it comes to talking business, Americans said they would want Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates as a seatmate during a cross-country flight, according to the results of a recent survey of people flying during the holiday travel season.
One of only two people to pay their own way into space says space tourism will become an integral part of the industry, eventually leading to more trips to the moon.
William Shatner wants to boldly go where he's only pretended to go so far.
Explorers is a CNN special report, looking at science, technology and innovation, past, present and future.
British entrepreneur Richard Branson has announced his company has signed a deal to offer the world's first commercial flights to space under the branding "Virgin Galactic."
"Imitation is the sincerest form of television," goes the old Fred Allen quote, and the late Mr. Allen -- a radio and television comedian who had several characters and concepts "borrowed" by others -- has never been more correct.
Politicians looking for a quick boost this campaign season might want to look at a new study of fall television shows that voters are most eager to watch.
A banker and a man who imitates apes were among the hundreds of people who lined up in Times Square Thursday looking for their bit of reality TV renown.
Season's Greetings! I know full well that most of the folks on my holiday list neither need nor deserve gifts this year, but what with the economy turning and the stock market likely to be up for t...
Right now the most important airlines in the U.S. are Southwest, JetBlue, AirTran, and Virgin Sam, or whatever British billionaire Richard Branson calls his U.S. venture set to start up next year. ...
It is 7 A.M., and Richard Branson has been hard at work for 2 1/2 hours, though you'd never know it by watching him.
This is not a normal issue of FORTUNE. Normal issues are full of stories about the economy, markets, corporate strategy, and business leaders getting it right or wrong. This special issue is all ab...
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Floating pierside on the Hudson River, PlayStation shimmers on the edge of plausibility. A $5 million, 105-foot-long, dual-hulled vision of gleaming yellow carbon fiber and Kevlar, the boat embodie...
Do the principal officers at your pet investments pilot balloons, a la Richard Branson, the Virgin Atlantic Airlines chairman who keeps trying to circle the globe? Perhaps they sky-dive, raft rapid...
Airline officials are accustomed to complaints about the hideous food they serve aloft. So it came as something of a surprise recently when Japanese passengers told British Airways executives that ...
To beat rush-hour traffic, more executives in London are hopping onto the back seats of motorcycle taxis for their ride to Heathrow airport. The trip runs nearly $50 from central London, about the ...
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