Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Sept 26, 2016 6:45 p.m. ET Share Lawsuit says Asian job applicants discriminated against Getty Images Alexander Karp, chief executive officer and co-founder of Palantir…

Seoul Mayor Park Won-Soon is leading a “minority shareholders’ movement” that raises far-reaching questions about how to revitalize Korea’s stagnating economy in a time of high youth unemployment and low growth. Twice elected mayor of the Korean capital, Park is crusading from Seoul’s modern city…

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In cybersecurity, there’s a certain sense of helplessness—you are mostly on your own. You are often the first and last line of defense for your information and communications; there is no equivalent of state-protected borders, neighborhood police patrols, and other public protections in cyberspace.…

Walt Disney Co., which reportedly has Twitter Inc. on its radar, knows a good buy when it sees it. The media and entertainment juggernaut would join Salesforce.com Inc. CRM, +5.15% and Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +0.06% GOOG, +0.04% as companies reported to be interested in acquiring Twitter’s TWTR, -5.12%…

Investors paying too much attention to China’sdispute over the writing of the navigation rules in the South China Sea — one of the world’s biggest trade routes – have perhaps missed China’s “other sea,” the sea of debt that is threatening to derail its robust growth and progress in recent years. But…

Revelations that Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey secretly funded a pro-Donald Trump organization have led some developers to pull their support from Facebook’s Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset. The Daily Beast reported Thursday that Luckey, 24, gave $10,000 to bankroll Nimble America, a pro-Trump…

Last week I attend Oracle OpenWorld and broadcasted LIVE for three days with my team. Here is our trip report that summarizes the impact to Oracle’s customers and investors. Big walkaway theme: Do you want more Oracle? This is the fundamental questions that executives at most of the Global 2000…

VCs Melissa Guzy, Anna Fang, Jenny Lee with Rebecca Fannin For years, women have been getting ahead faster in venture capital firms based in China rather than those in the U.S. This trend is accelerating with news of the largest venture fund raised by a woman: $500 million for H Capital, run by Chen…

Something often ignored in textbooks and business courses is the complexity of seasonality or peak seasons in developing sales strategy. It’s one thing to learn to balance your focus on new business while taking care of existing business. Many people generalize this challenge by suggesting you sell…

Snap, Inc. Spectacles, a new wearable camera from the former Snapchat. Response is mixed, and a little confused, over Snapchat’s — scratch that, Snap Inc.’s — first push into hardware with a late-Friday rollout of its camera-fitted sunglasses called Spectacles. The new product — long rumored to be a…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Sept 24, 2016 9:15 a.m. ET Share Hack was directed at users doing business in Russia Bloomberg News Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. By Robert McMillan Yahoo Inc. executives…

Two years ago New York Post media reporter Claire Atkinson revealed that Liberty Media planned to buy Formula One auto racing from its controlling shareholder the private equity firm CVC so there shouldn’t have been any surprise when it finally announced the deal earlier in September. However, the…

At Whit's End Stay Out of My Hair. Deal With My Work A federal court has decreed that it’s legal for employers to ban dreadlocks in the workplace. But is it right? September 23, 2016 This week, in a 3-0 decision, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a case brought by the Equal Employment…

Salesforce.com Inc. is considering a takeover of Twitter Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, as the social-media company’s efforts to ignite growth sputter. The exploration is in early stages, one of the people said, and might not lead to a deal. It is unclear who else might be…

Professional iPhone hackers say that Apple AAPL +0.57% has dropped the ball on password security with its latest iPhone operating system, making the task of cracking the logins for backups stored on a Mac or PC considerably easier. The new iPhone 7. Hackers are already finding ways of circumventing…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Sept 22, 2016 10:51 p.m. ET Share Startups taking on Uber in Southeast Asia Reuters A nuTonomy self-driving taxi drives on the road in its public trial in Singapore in August. By…

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – NOVEMBER 03: Marc Andreessen (L) and Sheryl Sandberg speak on a panel at the Fortune Global Forum – Day2 at the Fairmont Hotel on November 3, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for Fortune) There’s a bit of a chill in Silicon Valley. The…

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Shares of Twitter Inc. tumbled in premarket trade Friday, after analysts at RBC Capital downgraded the stock to sell on concerns about the social media company’s advertising revenue — and its appeal to ad men and women. RBC said it polled more than 1,100 advertising professionals to gauge their…

Pakistan and India have been good places to invest your money in the last five years, if you are a frontier or an emerging market investor chasing after the next big opportunity, that is. In the last twelve months, Global X MSCI MSCI +% Pakistan ETF has been 20%, while India’s has been up close to…

Binge-watching your favorite show might become a bit more difficult in the coming years, as Netflix Inc. moves toward its goal of creating half of the content the streaming service offers. Netflix Chief Financial Officer David Wells announced the 50% goal Tuesday at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia…

The Practical Employer Two Lawsuits Challenge New Overtime Rules Multiple states as well as a coalition of more than 50 business groups have filed separate suits to stop the DOL plan on overtime. September 21, 2016 by

Statue of Justice of the roof of Old Bailey in London. (Graham Barclay/Bloomberg News) Ever since I first landed in Washington three years ago and was told I was “ extraordinarily overqualified ” for one of the US Government’s most prestigious innovation fellowships, I’ve been fascinated with why…

Investors tend to chase performance, flocking to stocks that have posted the best recent performance. But that strategy can easily backfire. Hot shares typically cool, causing panic. So “buy low and sell high” gets turned upside down. How can one avoid this pattern? One way is to put together a…

Formula One is full of the world’s most well-known brands. There’s reigning champions Mercedes then the Red Bull energy drinks company’s eponymous team followed by Ferrari, perhaps the most storied name in motorsport. Creating a brand to compete with them is no mean feat but one team has more…

Texas, Oklahoma and 19 other states have sued the federal government to block the Labor Department’s new overtime rule, saying the Obama administration is trying to impose heavy costs and its own policy choices on the states in violation of the Tenth Amendment. The 30-page lawsuit — strategically…

Home Industries Banking The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Sept 20, 2016 11:21 p.m. ET Share World’s largest public offering this year Reuters A man pushes his bicycle past a branch of China Post's Postal Savings Bank of China. By Alec Macfarlane Postal…

It is no secret that brick-and-mortar retailers have been struggling this year, or that their internet-based competitors have been getting a lot of the attention, but one exchange-traded fund shows how dramatic the divergence between the two categories has become. The Amplify Online Retail ETF IBUY,…

Cartoon by Kirk Anderson The Washington Post, diverging somewhat from generally accepted journalistic protocol, stabbed its source not in the back, but in the front, in the face, in public. Edward Snowden fed the Post the scoop of a generation, and the Post’s reporting on his leaked documents was an…

The Practical Employer Regulating Social Media at Work Is a Sisyphean Task A slacking employee will not become a star performer just because you limit his or her social media access. September 20, 2016 by

I can’t believe the world is over-populated considering how hard it is to bring a human into this world. Or at least as I limped out of the hospital on that bright September day this was the thought that kept going through my mind. Even with advances in modern medicine, labor is no picnic. Despite…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Sept 19, 2016 11:38 p.m. ET Share Japan’s Softbank leads venture round Reuters Commuters pass ads for Grab‘s ride-hailing service at a train station in Singapore. By Alec…

Spain’s Rafael Nadal serves the ball during his doubles tennis match with teammate Feliciano Lopez against India’s Leander Peas and Saketh Myneni at the Davis Cup World Group tennis playoffs between Spain and India in New Delhi on September 17, 2016. (Photo credit: SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images)…

Benefits Health Insurers Buck Self-Service Benefits Enrollment Trend A partnership between Unum and Colonial Life and on-demand staffing company Wonolo seen as an about-face of the benefit world’s self-service trend. September 19, 2016 by

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Are we saying goodbye to the traditional online shopping cart? If some recent developments are any indication, it’s likely that in the future, paying for our purchases will look more like messaging a friend than the checkout experience we’ve become used to — and there may be no need to visit a…

India has made a great deal of economic progress in recent years. But it has yet to catch up with other emerging economies in per capita GDP, human development, and innovation, including its neighbor and BRICS peer, China. Markets have taken notice, with iShares S&P India lagging behind the equity…