4 Things Tony Avella and David Weprin Get Totally Wrong About Toll Reform – Streetsblog New York (blog)

No, the past nine years weren’t just a dream and you didn’t wake up in 2006. State senators David Weprin and Tony Avella, the Queens Civic Congress, and a few other Queens elected officials really did put on a press conference yesterday to guard against the possibility that…

GOOG Stock: Google Is Cooking Up Something Big – Profit Confidential

Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) stock price has surged a solid 41% so far in 2015. This is particularly impressive, given how large a company Google is. Other than Google’s search engine business, Alphabet has quite a few things going for it. If things go well, the…

Automakers battle for high-tech dominance on the road to self-driving car – WHBL Sheboygan

Sunday, November 15, 2015 3:11 p.m. CST By Naomi Tajitsu and Paul Ingrassia TOKYO/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – At the recent Frankfurt Auto Show, Ford Motor Co unveiled a new feature that lets drivers pre-set their car to go at or just above the speed limit. In-car…

Waterville airport sets sights high after big investments – Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel

Randy Marshall, airport manager at Robert LaFleur Municipal Airport, stands with his dog, Molly, on Thursday on the newly renovated runway at the city-owned airport in Waterville. Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans WATERVILLE — The Robert LaFleur Municipal Airport is poised to handle more…

Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It | WIRED – Wired

I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold. Though I hadn’t touched the dashboard, the vents in the Jeep Cherokee started blasting cold air at the maximum setting, chilling the sweat on my back…

Study Shows Retailers Use Marketplaces to Acquire New Customers … – EcommerceBytes

Retailers rank online marketplaces fifth for effectiveness among customer acquisition tools and allocate 16% of their digital marketing budgets to online marketplace initiatives and operations, according to a new Shop.org report conducted by Forrester Research and Bizrate Insights. Results of “The State of Retailing Online…

Global, Chinese automakers debut new models – FOX 10 News Phoenix

By JOE McDONALDAP Business Writer SHANGHAI (AP) – Ford showed off its new Taurus and Nissan unveiled a midsize sedan designed for China on Monday at a Shanghai Auto Show that highlighted the commercial resurgence of lower-priced Chinese auto brands. Competition in China is intensifying…