General Motors Co. plans to start a pilot program this summer that will enable car owners to rent out their vehicles when they aren’t using them, sources said. The tests will begin in early summer through GM’s Maven car-sharing unit. GM vehicle owners will be able to put their cars on Maven’s platform for other drivers to rent and share the revenue with the automaker. A spokesman for Detroit-based GM declined to comment.  

Apple continues to grow it series-programming slate, adding its first animated show. The digital giant has given a two-season series order to “Central Park,” a musical comedy from “Bob’s Burgers” creator Loren Bouchard and 20th Century Fox Television. The series is described as the story of how a family of caretakers, who live and work in Central Park, end up saving the park, and basically the world.

Mattel’s rendering of 20th-century Mexican painter Frida Kahlo—which finds her dark brown gaze lightened, her unibrow noticeably absent, and her body distinctively downsized—has been courting controversy. Some of Kahlo’s relatives have been vocal about their outrage. So too agrees Salma Hayek, who is the latest public figure to call attention to the toy maker’s fallacy and was nominated for an Oscar for her role portraying Kahlo.

Those paying very close attention to the reveal of the 2019 Buick Envision may have noticed that the crossover doesn’t have a “Buick” brandplate badge. Buick will stop using the brand badge on the rear of its vehicles, starting with the 2019 model year. The nameplate badge — which writes out the name of the vehicle, such as Encore or Enclave — is staying, and so is Buick’s logo, in red, silver and blue.

The established automakers have been attacking Tesla in entertaining and trollish ways in the last two weeks. The first two are Hyundai and Jaguar. Jaguar started by filming some 0-60-0 MPH acceleration-and-braking races between its new i-Pace crossover and Tesla's Model X. In Hyundai's case, the Tesla-trolling consisted of buying large billboard advertising with a picture of the Hyundai Kona EV and the text 'Your turn, Elon.”

The food delivery service from the ride sharer will launch in 100 new cities across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Uber made the decision after UberEats generated a profit in a quarter of the cities it currently operates in. It currently operates in 200 cities and in 2017 was profitable in 45 of them. That was a major boost in profitability from 2016, where UberEats operated in 50 cities but was only profitable in three of them.

Amazon, Walmart and Target, which were already peeling away so many of Toys R Us' shoppers, are likely to become the prime alternatives if Toys R Us completely exits the scene. But it's less clear whether any other retailers can become the sentimental favorite that Toys R Us was for so long.

MoviePass’ explosive growth has given the company scale and leverage it hadn’t dreamed possible. It’s also given scores of MoviePass customers a serious headache. Every fast-expanding company has growing pains. But MoviePass has invited a broad range of complaints, ranging from long waits for membership cards and nonresponsive customer service to theaters and movies being unexpectedly blacked out.

Ikea, the world's biggest furniture retailer, will maintain or raise already high levels of investment in coming years as it adapts to fast-changing shopping habits, its new CFO said. In a strategy shift, privately held Ikea is starting to add city-centre showroom formats to entice new generations, while also further developing its online store to stave off competition from internet giants including Amazon.

At first blush, Mattel has done an admirable job of highlighting inspirational women of many different ethnicities from around the world who have an impressive array of achievements. The dolls’ faces, eye colors, and hairstyles appear carefully designed to capture the likenesses of the real woman each is meant to represent. But for all this attention to detail, it seems strange that Mattel made all the dolls rail thin.