After glitches and delays amid growing demand for air travel, Singapore Airlines savored the distinction of being the first to fly the double-decker behemoth with paying passengers. Read more..

By WAYNE ARNOLD - The New York Times

Student lender Sallie Mae and its would-be buyers agreed to language that enables the company to operate while they battle in court over their collapsed $25 billion buyout. Read more..

By BLOOMBERG NEWS - The New York Times

SanDisk’s Sansa TakeTV is aimed at people who want to take digital video from their computers and watch it on their TVs, without getting too high-tech about it. Read more..

By STEPHEN C. MILLER - The New York Times

Arguing that it is too expensive to deliver video to its home Internet users, Deutsche Telekom is preparing to charge a fee to companies that want to offer video and other high-bandwidth services, according to an industry newsletter. Read more..

By SAUL HANSELL - The New York Times

Serious music lovers probably fancy digital music servers — a jukebox for digital music files, a hard drive to store the files and software to pump it through an existing stereo system. Read more..

By LAWRENCE M. FISHER - The New York Times

In the largest rejection of a buyout ever, shareholders blocked the Dolan family’s two-year, $10.6 billion effort to take Cablevision private. Read more..

By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN - The New York Times

As sales of existing homes plunged 8 percent in September to the slowest annual pace in nearly a decade, markets rebounded from early losses on hopes the Fed will cut rates. Read more..

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM - The New York Times

The brokerage’s $7.9 billion write down raised questions about E. Stanley O’Neal’s leadership and the ability of his top executives to manage the risky assets on the firm’s balance sheet. Read more..

By JENNY ANDERSON and LANDON THOMAS Jr - The New York Times

VMware, reporting its first financial results since its I.P.O., said third-quarter profit more than tripled on demand for software that makes computers more efficient. Read more..

By BLOOMBERG NEWS - The New York Times

The company said quarterly net profit jumped to 73.7 billion yen, or $646.7 million, as sales of digital cameras, televisions and other electronics more than offset losses at its video-games unit. Read more..

By MARTIN FACKLER - The New York Times