United Airlines has been emailing fliers in the wake of having a passenger dragged for his seat. The company will offer up to $10,000 for someone bumped for a seat. People hope for no repeat of the physical abuse. I don't know; for $10,000, I am willing to get roughed up a bit, just leave the teeth alone.

Columbus turned in 12.7-percent revenue growth for the first quarter ended March 31. And its North American revenue was up by 14.8 percent despite the fact chargeable hours for its SMB business in United States declined to 55 percent from 58 percent in last year's corresponding period.

Most software companies are seeing cloud revenue increase while license sales drop. But for its first quarter ended March 31, SAP grew both segments. Overall revenue reached about $5.76 billion for the most recently ended quarter, up 12 percent from a year earlier.

Dynamics revenue increased by 10 percent in Microsoft's third quarter ended March 31. The company said that was 11 percent in constant currency. In its SEC filing recently, Microsoft did not provide actual revenue figures. Nor did it publish the kind of figures that allowed us to calculate actual revenue for the second quarter.