AIG unveils new corporate logo as part of rebranding.

Sprint left behind as T-Mobile talks about merging with MetroPCS.

Boeing lowers global forecast as GE calls for inspections of certain Boeing models with its engines.

Air Canada debuts plans for low-cost carrier.

Airtime startup by Napster founders stumbles.

Alexander McQueen show sets Paris abuzz.

American Airlines finds seat problems on six aircraft.

Better Place CEO resigns from EV-charging-station startup.Continue reading...

As promised last month, Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning's Airtime has gone live, with the tagline "Create shared experiences with the people you know, and the people you want to know." The social video chat service from Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker is officially on the air, launching at a New York press conference with Jim Carrey, Julia-Louis Dreyfus, Ed Helms, Joe McHale, Jimmy Fallon, Olivia Munn, Alicia Keys and Snoop Dogg in attendance.Continue reading...

Video chat provider ooVoo has rolled out a new 12-way HD video Facebook application and ‘category-defining’ iPad app with four simultaneous HD video streams.

CEO Yuval Baharav says ooVoo reaches an estimated 46 million users worldwide: “At the most fundamental level, ooVoo provides free social video chat and integrated messaging. Diving a layer deeper, ooVoo offers an open social layer that augments existing popular social networks such as Facebook and Twitter with the addition of high-quality group video chat.”Continue reading...

Sean Parker — Napster cofounder, Spotify cofounder, and Facebook's first president, as portrayed by Justin Timberlake in The Social Network — is teaming again with Shawn Fanning, his old Napster colleague, on Airtime, a new video chat service for Facebook users, which will be unveiled June 5th at Milk Studios in New York City.

Generating murmurs and speculation at SXSW earlier this year, the new platform will randomly put Facebook users face-to-face with each other, echoing the notorious Chatroulette. 

On the website is a Facebook sign-up button for early access, a countdown clock (18 days to go now!), and job postings for technical talent.Continue reading...