Our favorite door opener Caryn Kopp discusses the importance of relationships with Centers of Influence— thought I’d share! Shutterstock Networking, whether it is in person, via Linked In or in another manner, can have a lasting effect on future referrals. This is your opportunity to deepen the…

Angel investor and ‘Rock & Roll’ hall of famer Jerry Harrison, most widely known for his work with the Talking Heads, is set to launch equity crowd funding portal Red Crow this November, which will initially target ‘social impact’ and healthcare/medtech sectors. There are also plans to expand into…

From being one of the hottest actresses to running one of the hottest billion dollar companies, this is a look into how Jessica Alba created The Honest Company. Recommended

Apple phones are just one target of the DoJ’s numerous attempts to force suspects to open devices with their fingerprints. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato) In what’s believed to be an unprecedented attempt to bypass the security of Apple iPhones, or any smartphone that uses fingerprints to unlock,…

Home Industries Transportation/Shipping The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Oct 16, 2016 5:14 p.m. ET Share Logistics company may be biggest U.S. debut for Chinese company since Alibaba By Alec Macfarlane A logistics company tied to China’s booming…

The LEGO Docker whale at Docker HQ, San Francisco. (Photo: Justin Warren) I was a Docker skeptic. The idea of containers was not particularly new (BSD Jails, Solaris zones, etc.) and it didn’t seem to be enough to sustain a company or a new way of working. I’ve changed my mind. Spending time with…

When I’m not running my content marketing firm, I like to travel. Recently, I took a three-week trip to Italy, where I hiked the Dolomite Mountains (part of the Alps) in northern Italy for a week. My friend and I hiked from hut to hut, and let me tell you, it was the most physically challenging…

The manager of one of the largest and oldest income mutual funds in the U.S. has discovered a new area for attractive dividends: technology stocks. Ed Perks, Franklin Templeton’s chief investment officer of equity, is the lead manager of the Franklin Income Fund FKINX, +0.45% The fund has nearly $80…

Shutterstock As a therapist, it’s clear that the fear of confrontation is at the root of much distress. Many workplace issues, relationship troubles, and interpersonal problems could likely be resolved if people address their concerns in an open and direct manner. I often hear people excuse their…

A flag at half-mast on the first anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) A Connecticut judge has thrown out a closely watched lawsuit against Remington Outdoor over the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, saying the plaintiffs failed to maneuver around a federal law prohibiting…

Salesforce.com Inc. Chief Executive Marc Benioff is not exactly known to be shy and retiring, but on Friday, he made a bold statement to the Financial Times that the cloud-based software company had looked at buying Twitter Inc., only to conclude that it was not a good idea. “In this case, we’ve…

At Whit's End Guys, Do Not Listen to Donald Donald Trump may think fame means he can have the ladies fall in line like soldiers. But don’t emulate that stance in the workplace. Your bad behavior today may come back to haunt you tomorrow. October 14, 2016 by

Home Industries Investing/Securities The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Oct 14, 2016 12:12 a.m. ET Share SoftBank Vision Fund could eventually reach $100 billion Bloomberg News SoftBank Group Corp. said it expects to invest at least $25 billion over the…

Millennials are entitled . I’m convinced. I’m not convinced, however, that this is a bad thing. Some forms, of course, are. Narcissistic and exploitive entitlement , such as “If I’m in a hurry, people should let me move ahead in line”, are associated with manipulativeness, irresponsibility,…

Intel Corp. will likely show some growth in its key data center and PC businesses when the company reports fiscal third-quarter earnings after the market closes on Tuesday. Intel INTC, +1.30% continues to focus on high-growth areas, such as data centers and Internet of Things (which includes its…

Benefits Employee Education Is Key to Navigating Shifting Health Care Costs Pricing is a misunderstood and highly complex part of our health care system. October 13, 2016 by

Data transmission through the conventional Internet always carries a header that gives information on how the information was sent. Header information is an important element in the Internet to move data from switched node to switched node on the web. This information can also help those who have…

After the August 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black teenager, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, Starbucks brass made a trip to neighboring St. Louis. Following a summit with more than 100 local employees, called partners, Brooklyn-born CEO Howard Schultz took a…

Facebook Inc. FB, +0.05% and Google owner Alphabet Inc. GOOG, +0.04% GOOGL, +0.06% will join with a little-known Chinese company to lay an ultrafast internet cable between Los Angeles and Hong Kong, the latest sign of its U.S. backers’ insatiable appetite for bandwidth. The 12,800-kilometer Pacific…

A close up shot from one of The 5TH latest editions. (Photo from Alex McBride/The Fifth) We want what we can’t have. Not just in love. Or at the nightclub. Or when the new smartphone conveniently sells out on launch day. We want what we can’t have in everything . Our brains are inclined to…

The Practical Employer Court Rules Employers Cannot Take Overtime Credit for Paid Lunches The FLSA only permits employers to take an offset against overtime payments in three limited circumstances. October 12, 2016 by

The holiday shopping season has begun, like it or not. Sixteen percent of shoppers have begun shopping for the holidays, according to the RetailMeNot Inc. 2016 Retailer Guide to Consumer Trends. Forty-six percent said they would begin before Nov. 1. Last year, the weeks leading up to Christmas Day,…

It is appearing more imminent that the Federal Reserve will institute an interest rate hike at its mid-December 2016 meeting, exactly one year after it implemented its first interest rate increase in nearly a decade. The relatively weak economic recovery from The Great Recession (2007-09) was one of…

AP Photo/Paul Sakuma Amazon.com has been continually upping the ante on how quickly and conveniently it can get people their orders through an array of last-mile logistics innovations. But a new delivery option sounds like it could strike some as a little too convenient for comfort. Amazon is…

Home Industries Telecommunications The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Oct 11, 2016 10:15 p.m. ET Share Third time telecom will use unusual fundraising tactic Bloomberg News Sprint has been losing money for several years, and has nearly $37 billion of total…

Cartoon by Ted Rall. It’s one of the most common questions you will ever receive when you go in for a job interview: where will you be in five years? These days questions about a certain presidential candidate and his temperament lead one to conclude that that answer might have more meaning than…

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We live in an age where you have just a few seconds to impress someone with your website, tagline, or bio. We have become masters at engineering the “perfect” profiles to hook others in and the right pitches to land the job or career advancements we want. If you can outperform your competition, or…

Samsung Electronics’ nightmarish phone-explosion problem may weigh on its sales and leave a blemish on the brand, but the outcome might’ve been worse had it happened to Apple Inc. Apple AAPL, +0.56% is much more reliant on its handheld devices than Samsung 005930, +1.28% is on its family of Galaxy…

A service that originally found millions of fans as part of a new computing paradigm eventually hits a ceiling for the number of users it can attract, leading to a flagging stock, questions about its raison d’être, and larger companies considering a merger to add eyeballs or brand cachet. Yep,…

China has reclaimed between 2,900 and 3,200 acres (1,294 hectares) of land in a widely disputed sea off its south coast, outraging neighbors. Anger crested in Vietnam in 2014 with deadly anti-Beijing protests as the Philippines was asking the world arbitration court for a ruling on how much China…

Immigration 5 Ways to Manage the Workplace Immigration Process Ongoing I-9 and E-Verify enforcement efforts let employers know that serious civil and criminal sanctions can be imposed for noncompliance. October 10, 2016 by

Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images Over the years, I’ve earned a reputation as somebody that celebrities turn to in a crisis. I’m the guy that became chairman of Steve Madden when he came under investigation. I’m the guy that Martha called the day she was convicted. And I’m the guy that had to tell…

Shares of Apple Inc. hit their highest prices of 2016 on Tuesday as Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s exploding-phone saga worsened and one analyst said Apple could sell millions of iPhones because of it. Samsung 005930, +1.28% announced Monday afternoon that any Galaxy Note 7 devices that have been…

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The Wall Street Journal By and Published: Oct 9, 2016 4:16 p.m. ET Share Partnership will help production company distribute its movies in China Bloomberg News Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. By Alyssa Abkowitz Erich Schwartzel Not even Steven Spielberg is immune to Chinese moves…

India is rising in the global economy, leaving neighboring Pakistan and Bangladesh in the dust, and closing in on China. When it comes to global competitiveness that is, climbing 32 ranks in World Economic Forum’s competitiveness index in the last two years! That’s good news for investors who have…