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Alison Brick reports on an uptick in museum visits in the U.S. We’ve finally found an upside to the recession–thriving museums. According to a report by the American Association of Museums, attendance increased at 57 percent of museums in 2009. It’s all because of the recession–specifically, people opting to stay local, preferring the price of [...]

Hefty incentives offered by Toyota to rejuvenate sales and market share — and copied by some competitors – sent U.S. industry sales soaring in the early going of March, according to Edmunds.com's forecast.
In the first eight days of March, the Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate (SAAR) of U.S. sales climbed to 12.5 [...]

Toyota vehicles are dominating headlines lately with recalls and rebuttals, but just as annoying to Honda Odyssey owners are the transmission problems they are experiencing — problems some owners believe Honda is unwilling to acknowledge or address.
Since October 2006, members of Edmunds' CarSpace Forums have contributed more than 1,400 individual posts to a thread called Honda Odyssey Transmission Problems that [...]

I don’t know about you but I hate tornadoes. Seriously.
So it does not warm my heart to realize I live between the 2nd worst and the 9th worst cities in the country for tornado activity. Ugh…
Give me a hurricane any day of the week. You know you are going to get clobbered with a hurricane [...]

And the Oscar for the best advertising performance during the Academy Awards show
 goes to — Hyundai.
But barely.
Indeed, Hyundai brand and, specifically, the Hyundai Sonata got the most lift from Sunday night's Academy Awards presentation, based on an analysis of shopping consideration by consumers [...]

Doubts abound whether a "new General Motors" truly is emerging from the old GM with its old, stodgy and coddling culture, but the reported ouster of a trio of marketing executives associated with struggling Cadillac may be a sign that, in fact, the times are a changing.
Quoting eight unnamed sources familiar [...]

You want your business’ website on the first page of Google?  Let’s be honest.  Everyone knows that the sites on the first page of Google or other search engines get all the traffic.  What if your website doesn’t show up at all?  It’s the same as your site being out of order.  Your website should be working [...]

Need a posh place to catch some Z’s in the Big Apple? Book a room at the Yotel, a brand of sleeping pod hotels popular in the UK.  New York’s Yotel–set to open in 2011 with 669 rooms or “pods”–will be located at 42nd and 10th and is meant for travelers looking for a quick [...]