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Big Blue Bus investing $18.2M to upgrade bus fleet; Cummins-Westport Near-Zero NOx engines

Green Car Congress

Big Blue Bus (BBB), a bus operator serving Santa Monica and the Los Angeles area, will invest $18.3 million in Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and California Proposition 1B Bond funds to replace fifty 40-foot New Flyer buses purchased between 2004 and 2006.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

Cars That Think

On 2 August 1985, Estridge, his wife, Mary Ann, and a handful of IBM salesmen from Los Angeles boarded Delta Flight 191 headed to Dallas. It did not matter that Microsoft's software was notorious for having bugs or that IBM's was far cleaner. In December 2004, IBM announced it was selling its PC business to Lenovo for $1.75

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