When it comes to pinching pennies, few full-fare airlines can match American. During his long tenure as American Airlines’ chief executive, Robert Crandall loved to boast that his decision to remove a single olive from passengers’ dinner salads saved $40,000 a year.

Here’s BusinessWeek’s cover story on American Airline’s all-out fuel-efficiency drive that may put it back in the black.

‘If we persist in this idea that innovation will only come from within America, I think we’re going to miss out on the next Sun Microsystems, Google and Intel,’ says Schwartz.

Complete interview at Newsweek

BBC is all set to place its vast video/audio archives on the internet. So, all of us who were glued to radio when the Berlin wall came down can now simply go online and relive the BBC coverage. All you have to do is search by keyword ‘Berlin wall‘ and the results are for you to see.

Economist takes a look BBC’s ambitious plans for its future online