Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By and Published: Aug 25, 2016 11:27 p.m. ET Share In shift, foreign tech companies take active role in making rules Bloomberg News China has tried to show it is responsive to foreign concerns…

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Source: Xactly Corporation Back in 2005, Chris Cabrera left his executive-level job at a tech firm to start his own venture, called Xactly . He saw an opportunity to leverage cloud-computing to provide much better solutions for incentive compensation management. The journey was far from easy or…

Facebook-owned mobile mobile messaging application WhatsApp announced that it has completed end-to-end encryption of of all communication and data shared on the app. But that won’t stop it sharing phone numbers and usage statistics with its new owner. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) WhatsApp…

Leadership Development How’s the Boss? Great, According to New Survey Employer review site Glassdoor’s statistical survey ranks the boss in a positive light. August 25, 2016 by

Ffooter / Shutterstock U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago, soon to be Guaranteed Rate Field. Slide 1 of 7 “Grab your mitt, kiddo, we’re going to Guaranteed Rate Field tonight!” That’s a sentence that is unlikely to ever roll off the tongue of any Chicago parent headed to a White Sox game. But after this…

(Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) As 2016 progresses into its second half, a KPMG and CB report shows that Venture Capital Investments in India have fallen to $583 million, down from $1,042 million raised during January to March this year. Though this funding slowdown is part of a global trend,…

You can download an audio podcast here or subscribe via iTunes . Microsoft MSFT +0.88% reported doing over $1 billion of corporate giving, mostly in-kind, for fiscal year 2015. The software giant is making giving a more integral part of its strategy, as I explored here . One current initiative is a…

A display at the Big Bang Data exhibition at Somerset House in 2014. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images for Somerset House) The era of “big data” has brought with it an incredible wealth of massive new datasets cataloging global society. Making possible this deluge of publicly accessible data is the…

For the third year running, venture capitalists continue to pour money into cloud-based HR tech start-ups. August 24, 2016 by

A map at the Big Bang Data exhibition at Somerset House in 2015. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images for Somerset House) Last week I asked whether government secrecy is dead in the internet and social media era. Yet, the web is just one of the myriad commercially-owned data streams that poses a…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 23, 2016 6:50 p.m. ET Share Sites with ‘intrusive interstitials’ may be pushed down in search results starting in January Bloomberg News It’s unclear exactly what type of…

Shutterstock Amir Orad could just rest on his laurels. He’s had an amazing run of success in his career. For instance, he’s taken one company from $30 to $200 million in revenues within a few years and steered another to a $145 million exit. And now, as CEO of Sisense for the past 18 months, Orad…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 23, 2016 5:00 p.m. ET Share Some labels want service to pay more for songs Getty Images Daniel Ek, CEO and founder of Spotify, speaks at a media event in 2015. By Hannah Karp…

Under the heading “Clinton Deal ISIS Leader caught on Video ” the email reads Hillary clinton (sic) caught on video exchanging money with ISIS leader in 2013. After watching the video clip you can then decide on who to vote. Sentiment is not enough to choose who to vote. There’s a link to the…

With six sentences the appeals court may have killed a landmark bias case and the 43 years of employment-law jurisprudence that followed. August 23, 2016 by

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(Credit: Paul J. Richards /AFP/Getty Images) In little more than one month, the online app game Pokémon GO has reinvigorated the Pokémon franchise and created an addictive new pastime for mobile users of all ages. For those who haven’t gotten hooked, the game encourages users to move about an…

When it comes to trending topics on Twitter, Monday marked a refreshing departure from Donald Trump and Ryan Lochte. Apparently all anyone wanted to talk about was #AfterPartySale. That’s the hashtag that fashion brand Lilly Pulitzer began pushing Monday morning with the launch of its epic, 50+%-off…

Our constitution guarantees freedom of religion. We irreparably damage this principle when we permit a private business, under the guise of religious freedom, to opt out. August 22, 2016 by

Home Industries Media The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 22, 2016 4:54 p.m. ET Share Site’s founder agrees not to work for rivals for two years Reuters Last week, Gawker founder Nick Denton told staff he was “out of the news and gossip business.” By…

Every up-and-coming, club-toiling singer-songwriter in Nashville will agree on one thing: there’s no skipping the toll lane to country music stardom. For every Taylor Swift or Tim McGraw, there are thousands of others who still namelessly grind it every night out on Music City’s honky-tonk bar…

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Two generations side-by-side in this photo of two architects collaborating on a project. Photo credit: Shutterstock The workforce has changed since I entered it full-time back in the spring of 1968, and frankly I am a little surprised to find myself still in it. But I’m willing to bet I’m not unlike…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By and Published: Aug 21, 2016 5:11 p.m. ET Share Maker of ‘selfie’ apps filed application Friday AFP/Getty Images Popular ‘selfie’ app maker Meitu Inc. is reportedly seeking a valuation of…

I never thought that there was any legal question about the authority of IRS criminal investigators to be armed. There are quite a few specialized federal law enforcement organizations. Their officers have arrest powers, which, at least in this country, implies that they might be needing to pack…

It’s been a big couple of months for hackers. In June, Russian hackers targeted Hillary Clinton’s campaign Google GOOGL +0.05% accounts. The fallout continued a yearlong discussion about Clinton’s email security, specifically her use of a private email server while Secretary of State. Then, in…

You might think the world wouldn't care that a 22-year-old Canadian with a rap sheet has dropped off a social-media platform. Yet it seems to. Very much. Howls of anguish ripped across the internet this week after Justin Bieber’s Instagram account, with nearly 78 million followers and endless snaps…

The more options that emerge in both traditional and alternative financing, the more choices entrepreneurs have to capitalize their ventures. Understanding those options can be daunting if it’s not your full-time job. You may be clear that you need capital but without knowing how much or when you’ll…

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Hedge fund’s love affair with Silicon Valley is intact. Goldman Sachs earlier this week released its list of “stocks that matter most,” representing a compilation of the securities that show up most frequently among the top 10 holdings of hedge-fund portfolios, and tech is all over the list. Check…

Home Industries Internet/Online Services The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Aug 19, 2016 5:01 p.m. ET Share Online radio company seeks to challenge Apple Music, Spotify Getty Images Pandora Media Inc. went public in 2011, but the stock has suffered amid…

A view of the Internal Revenue Service’s headquarters March 24, 2016 in Washington, DC. / AFP / Brendan Smialowski (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) It’s common to rush at the last-mine to fill out tax returns. But then again, things are even worse when there is no…

The leak of NSA hack tools, now all-but confirmed, included an exploit for old Cisco product PIX, which provided firewall and VPN capabilities. It’s the first time a specific NSA VPN exploit has been uncovered and proven to work. If the Shadow Brokers’ leak of NSA files is legit, as is now all but…

Fintech is en vogue right now, and for good reason. Trim ’s digital assistant cuts unwanted recurring bills automagically. Mint tracks our expenses and helps us achieve our goals. Digit squirrels away bits and pieces into a savings account. Venture capitalists, myself included, invested as much as…

A federal judge in California ruled Thursday that a class-action settlement between Uber Technologies Inc. and drivers for the company’s ride-hailing service was inadequate. However, the judge denied the settlement because of money that will mostly go to the state, not the drivers. Uber and its…

Home Industries Transportation/Shipping The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By and Published: Aug 18, 2016 5:52 p.m. ET Share Test program will still have drivers behind the wheel, just in case Shutterstock.com So how much do you tip your autonomous vehicle? By Greg…