Generalizing about anyone’s age or generation is always dangerous. I know BabyBoomers who still live it up like they just graduated college, and have Millennial friends who are already entrenched with three kids under five in the suburbs. But classifications are simple. They allow us to define…

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Bloomberg Olive Garden’s Pasta Passes started showing up on eBay shortly after they sold out. Missed out on your chance to purchase one of Olive Garden’s Never Ending Pasta Passes? You can still get one — for a few thousand dollars extra. A Never Ending Pasta Pass, priced to sell at $100 each,…

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We are, as many critics say, in the golden age of TV, and this Sunday the Academy of Television Arts and Science will be handing out the gongs during the 68th annual Emmy Awards. The telecast is airing on Walt Disney Co.’s DIS, +0.20% ABC network at 8 p.m. Eastern, and will be hosted by “Jimmy…

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Reuters Commuters take selfies beside billboards showing photographs of cats inside Clapham Common underground station in London on September 14, 2016. Cat images win the internet most days. Now thanks to an online campaign’s $30,000, fab felines replace every last trace of advertising in one…

Steve Morang just couldn’t stand it. After reading my column about the deception committed by both Volkswagen and Wells Fargo WFC -0.09% against their customers, he simply had to reach out by email to register his outrage. Joyce Ertel Hulbert, owner of a 2015 Volkswagen Golf TDI, holds a sign…

Mobileye Co-founder, CTO and Chairman Amnon Shashua at a press event in Las Vegas at CES in January 2016 (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images) For three years, Mobileye NV, the Jerusalem-based maker of camera sensors and software, supplied Tesla with technology for the semi-autonomous Autopilot…

Brian Kelly, who you may know as credit-card guru The Points Guy, joined MarketWatch for a live interview on Facebook in September. He gave some expert tips on how to make the most of your credit card points and frequent flier miles. Here are some highlights: On how long you should hold onto a card…

Apple Messages Engineer Bhaskar Sarma explains at WWDC in June how developers can extend their services into iMessage. Earlier this week Apple made its first public move to transform Messages into a platform that could one day be as profitable as the App Store. Now open to third party developers,…

Identity protection is one of the key aspects of overall security and protection against attacks. Nobody cares more about protecting their identity than gamers many of whom have thousands of dollars’ worth of games and in-game content. People are getting hacked everywhere, inside games and outside…

This has turned out to be a great year for U.S. stocks, with a lot of gains springing from investors’ flight to higher yields since interest rates have been so low. But rather than buying shares of companies with the highest current dividend yields, you might have better long-term performance if you…

China is leading the world in its embrace of financial technology, or fintech, even at the early development stage, according to a report published Friday. There are currently 27 fintech unicorns, or private startups with valuations of $1 billion or more, according to the report on Visual…

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen. (Photo by Ashley Pon/Getty Images) Taiwan has invested in China since about 1990 and became one of the first overseas commercial forces to thrive there. But China’s economic growth is slipping now and the place is unpopular politically with the Taiwanese because of…

The Practical Employer Free Speech, Social Media and Your Job The First Amendment right to free speech grants private-sector employees zero constitutional rights or protections. September 8, 2016 by

Google Inc. is widening the competitive field by including integrations for nine ride-hailing options in the Google Maps app. Alphabet’s GOOG, +0.04% GOOGL, +0.06% Google said Thursday that it is adding Lyft and Gett to its slate of ride-hailing options, which already includes Uber, on iOS and…

Private equity firms have always found a sweet spot in buying business lines that are spun-off from corporate giants. These so-called ‘carve outs’ play into the wheelhouse of PE buyers who have the cash to quickly take a business off the hands of a restructuring corporate titan, and it is the…

By Christine Bailey (Photo courtesy of Pexels) At school when I was 16-years-old, I was told that something I wanted to do was only for stupid girls. Luckily I had the support of a great teacher who broke the rules and made it happen for me. That started me on a journey of recognizing how important…

Shares in Japan’s Nintendo Co. rallied on Thursday following its announcement of a new mobile game featuring the iconic Mario character, though broader stocks performance across Asia was mixed. As the Nikkei Stock Average NIK, +0.49% fell 0.3% as the yen USDJPY, +0.45% continued to strengthen…

With no scheduled maintenance planned, Sony’s online gaming network is offline for the second time this month. The first time the PlayStation Network went down this month was on September 1st, following an August 26th outage just days earlier. The outage today comes on the eve of Sony’s big…

Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images “Life is just a game of inches. So is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half step too late or too early, you don’t quite make it. One half second too slow or too fast, and you don’t quite catch it.…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By and Published: Sept 7, 2016 4:50 p.m. ET Share Arbitration-clause ruling reduces size of class-action lawsuit Shutterstock.com Wednesday’s ruling came in a lawsuit challenging Uber’s…

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Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Sept 6, 2016 8:47 p.m. ET Share Company prices shares at $14 to $16 apiece By Patience Haggin Ad-buying platform The Trade Desk Inc. revealed an estimated price range for its…

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – SEPTEMBER 29: The Google logo is displayed on the new Nexus 5X phone during a Google media event on September 29, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Google released a bunch of Android patches today , covering off some previously-disclosed…

The Practical Employer Associational Disability Discrimination Claims Are Rare, Yet Dangerous One employer in New Mexico learned an expensive and necessary lesson: Caregivers have rights. September 6, 2016 by

Hot trends in corporate culture and management technique evolve from decade to decade, often in alignment with prevailing social trends. Recently, the “empowered workplace” has become popular, especially among tech-oriented companies. In empowered workplaces, many of the rigid rules of conduct such…

After spending a week at Huawei’s first all-customer Connect 2016 conference in Shanghai, it’s hard not to come away impressed by both the Chinese technology juggernaut’s depth of innovation as well as its breadth of product offerings. Huawei’s greatest strengths may lie in its telecom and consumer…

One might think that Sebastian Thrun, known in Silicon Valley as the father of the self-driving car, would be questioning his move away from the technology as autonomous cars become more than a pie-in-the-sky dream. “‘You had the coolest job on the planet, why are you doing this?’” Thrun said he is…

Much as designing customer experience has dominated the thinking of companies competing in today’s digital environment, organizations are now reexamining their employee experience. Technology can help companies take a personalized approach. September 5, 2016 by

This weekend the annual JavaScript conference Nodevember became the most recent participant in the political correctness (PC) wars when it un-invited keynote speaker Douglas Crockford , renowned for his involvement in advances to the modern web and the JavaScript programming language, from its…

Getty Images A stronger economy puts more cars on the road for longer, helping push up driving fatalities. Because American drivers are logging increased mileage and some are texting while driving, about 9% more died in vehicle crashes in the first six months of 2016 than in the same stretch last…

As Zenefits showed, a platform’s woes can affect its customers. How can companies protect themselves as they move HR processes to the cloud? September 4, 2016 by