With the growth of small-business and independent employee travel, booking sites are scrambling to serve this market. Read more..

By JOE SHARKEY - The New York Times

Saving a knife collection and surviving a behind-the-scenes tour of a Chinese airport. Read more..

By RON ROBINS, as told to Christopher Elliott - The New York Times

Bank of America is backing away from “Higher Standards” — at least in its new national advertising campaign. Read more..

By ERIC DASH - The New York Times

Pop stars, chief executives and politicians vaunt how they offset carbon emissions by planting trees or investing in renewable energy projects. Read more..

By JAMES KANTER - The New York Times

Italy’s infrastructure minister indicated Monday that he would not block Spanish acquisition of a large stake in Telecom Italia. Read more..

By ERIC SYLVERS - The New York Times

ONLINE MARKET HEATS UP The big three third-party online travel-booking sites, Expedia, Orbitz and Travelocity, dropped slightly over all in customer-satisfaction ratings last year. The reason is that individual airline and hotel online sites, and ... Read more..

By JOE SHARKEY - The New York Times

The planned $13 billion merger of the nation’s two satellite radio services, Sirius and XM, is sure to raise antitrust issues. Read more..

By RICHARD SIKLOS and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN - The New York Times

Developing some fluency in foreign languages is getting to be as important as taking along a laptop on an overseas trip. Read more..

By PAUL BURNHAM FINNEY - The New York Times

World stock markets ended higher Monday, as merger and acquisition talk bolstered shares in Europe and Japan. Read more..

By BLOOMBERG NEWS - The New York Times

Robert Adler was a physicist and prolific inventor best known as the co-inventor of the television remote control device. Read more..

By KATIE HAFNER - The New York Times