Starbucks Corp. will sell a second movie - this one produced by National Geographic Films, Bloomberg reported today.

The film, called “Arctic Tale,” follows the coffee chain's sales last year of “Akeelah and the Bee.”

Bloomberg reported that Starbucks will share the profits from “Arctic Tale,” a story about a walrus pup and a polar bear and the impact of global warming, said Ken Lombard, head of Starbucks’ entertainment division.

Starbucks will market the movie at 6,800 stores in the U.S. and Canada and sell DVDs of the film later.

Two of the nation's largest airlines, United and Continental, today raised fares by up to $14 roundtrip.

The airlines said they were upping their fares to compensate for higher fuel prices.

United raised its domestic fares by $2 to $5 each way and Continental raised its fares by $2 to $7 each way.

Those fare increases follow increases last week by Delta Air Lines and other carriers of about $5 each way. Previous attempts to raise farea industry-wide were rescinded when all carriers failed to go along.

Analysts said this round of fare increases may be sticking.

The Associated Press reported this afternoon that a former Schnitzer Steel Industries exec has paid $40,000 to settle bribery allegations.

The Securities and Exchange Commission had charged Si Chan Wooh of Tacoma, the former executive vice president, with violating anti-bribery provisions. The SEC alleged that from 1999 to 2004, Wooh paid more than $200,000 in cash bribes and other gifts to managers of government-owned steel mills in China to induce them to purchase scrap metal from Schnitzer, the AP reported. According to the commission, Schnitzer made $6.2 million in profit from the sales.

Wooh agreed to pay $40,000, including interest and penalties, without admitting or denying the allegations.
Schnitzer paid millions more to settle related charges.

Boeing rival Airbus today won 22 more orders for its A350XWB aircraft, its competitor to Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

The orders came from Brazilian carrier TAM Linhas Aereas. TAM was one of the airlines that originally ordered Airbus' A350, which Airbus abandoned in favor of the A350XWB.

The airline is also ordering four additional Airbus A330-200s.

TAM had ordered 10 of the A350s in 2005. Airbus scrapped the plans for the A350 when some of its best customers criticized it for lagging behind the 787 in technology and efficiency.

Airbus now has 254 orders and commitments for the A350XWB compared with firm orders for Boeing's 787 of 584.

By 8:15 a.m., eight people sat outside the 38th Street AT&T store waiting to pony up at least $499 for iPhones that go on sale at 6 tonight. They came equipped to sit, stand and pace for another 10 hours: Chairs, blankets, laptops, iPods. The iPhone can only be purchased at AT&T stores.

So why spend the day on a strip mall sidewalk to buy a phone?

"I’m known at work as a gadget guy. I’ve been told if I didn’t have one by Monday, don’t bother coming to work," said Jeff Haws, 48, of Gig Harbor, who'd arrived at 7 a.m.

Tiffany Fortune, 30, said she wanted to be sure the store wouldn't run out.

The first thing she plans to do with hers?

"Rub it in my neighbor’s face."